Walesdad
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"The Untouchables" season two.Classic.
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Some of my favourite covers?
Patti Smith - Hey,Joe.
Patti Smith - Gloria.
Jerry Lee Lewis - Money
Placebo - Daddy Cool.
The Cramps - Anything they covered they made their own.
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I love The Ramones. One of my favorite bands for sure. While they have they're number of in your face punk songs, they also have some great ballads. Songs such as "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend","Babysitter", "Here Today Gone Tomorrow", "Danny Says" and "7-11" are underrated gems.
Totally agree friend,so much more to them than wham,bam,etc,etc.
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great band.
had the pleasure of seeing them in a small club in E. Lansing, Michigan back in 77 or 78.
they played a 1-1/2 hour non stop set that by the end was so loud i thought my ears were bleeding.
I really wish I'd seen them around that time,they did play about forty five miles from my hometown around about '76 but I didn't bother.Regretted it ever since.
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I reckon so.I've got into them late,mainly thanks to my twenty year old daughter who loves them,but I can't stop playing the 'Anthology'double cd.I defy anyone not to feel just a bit better after hearing stuff like 'Beat On The Brat','Sheena Is A Punk Rocker' or 'California Sun'.Any other fans of da brudders out there?One,two,three,four.......
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Today's train bombings in Russia.How anyone can undertake such a thing,for whatever alleged cause,just makes my blood run cold.Sorry to make this rather a heavy one,especially after reading about people's cats and car insurance,but this put a downer on the day for me.
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I haven't read any of the other views on this but I just know that I'm not a fan of any drugs,full stop.Like probably everyone on here,I know people that have dabbled with them,both short term and long term,and generally its done them no good at all.I don't use them,never have.Ban the lot.
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This is an interesting thread and I'll take the liberty of chipping in.Make no mistake about it,Led Zeppelin were massive during the seventies in Britain.I was seventeen in 1975 and I can remember those Earls Court shows,and the later Knebworth events selling out very quickly.But I've got to add the fact that the band had a strange relationship with the U.K during this time.The reasons,I think,were many for this.Believe it or not,but the band were never on the television.EVER.I can remember one interview with Robert Plant and an in house video being run over a playback of 'Trampled Underfoot' from 'Physical Graffiti' during 1975 and that was that.Now I know that someone is going to reply,'...well what about Jimmy Page's appearance on the Julie Felix Show or the Late Night Line Up appearance,etc', but I never saw them and I was there.You virtually never saw the band.They rarely gave press interviews also,during this time.Any news of them was devoured by fans and a lot of it concerned some of the mega tours that the band were making of the U.S. during this period.They well may have in the States,Australia,Japan or anywhere else,but they never released a single in the U.K.That meant that they were very rarely on the radio at the time and as,especially during the time we are talking about,most radio stations were singles orientated,Led Zeppelin simply were not heard on that medium.They also seldom toured the U.K. After the twenty one date tour of the U.K. that started on November 30th,'72 through to January 30th,'73,the band only played in Britain a further seven times before they broke up (five nights at Earls Court and two at Knebworth).On that tour the band were playing venues like Sheffield City Hall,the Preston Guild Hall and Southampton University!This was a band who had previously played at Madison Square Gardens,The Inglewood Forum and The Coliseum in Seattle.The truth was the Led Zeppelin couldn't play in Britain during the early seventies because there was nowhere for them to play,the U.K. simply did not have the venues that could have coped with the demand to see the group.Take into account as well the dreadful tax laws in operation at the time,and to a degree still in use,whereby successful people were only allowed to reside in Britain for a very limited amount of time during any given financial year before being eligible for a real clobbering by the British Inland Revenue and I think you have a good picture of why the band were scarce on the ground in there home country.There popularity,at least here,was down to old fashioned word of mouth.You knew someone who had there latest album,or any older brother/sister might have it and you snuck it on when they weren't about.They were never hyped,at least not in Britain.They had an incredible mystique,and every album release was an event but don't think that just because the Carpenters or whoever may have sold more albums than them in Britain that they were not popular.Among rock fans,they were monstrous.
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The first Led Zeppelin boot I ever had was a two tape set of 'Destroyer'.I've still got it,with my own home made covers,and I still cherish it.I graduated onto some of the more famous titles,at least they were twenty years ago when I got 'Destroyer',like 'Mudslide','Live On Blueberry Hill','V1/2',etc.,but that first twin tape pack is still a bit special to me.
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Alice Cooper(the band) were great and 'Killer' is one hell of an album,'Halo Of Flies' is my favourite track on the thing but 'Desperado','Under My Wheels' and 'You Drive Me Nervous' run it close.I'm also a big fan of 'Schools Out' and 'Love It To Death',both cracking albums that were part of the soundtrack to my youth.That band were really underrated.
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I don't remember what it was that happened between them and I.R.S. Records? I thought the show was great too and I liked them a lot. Minus the mosh pit
If I remember it right,there was a severe breakdown in the relationship between band and label.Basically the Cramps wanted to leave I.R.S. and the label didn't want to let them go.I think the band then refused to record any new material for the label,I.R.S then sued in court citing a breach of whateverthehellitwas and the band found itself in a hell of a financial mess.For about a year and a half the Cramps were virtually in limbo.Eventually I.R.S let them go,but part of the out of court settlement meant that neither band nor label were ever allowed to comment on what fully went on.I've got to say that I still love them and they are still the dirtiest,sleaziest rock and roll band on the planet.
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You've seen some great bands! The Cramps were great except I got caught in the mosh pit and being rather short, it was a bit scary
The Cramps show was one of the best I ever went to and I think that they are still a great band.I fell for them as soon as I heard the 'Gravest Hits' 12" EP.The album they were pushing when I saw them was 'A Date With Elvis' and I honestly think that if they hadn't fallen out with the I.R.S record company when they did,and with all the ensueing legal trouble that they had,then they would have been huge.They certainly should have been.
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I would go through serious withdrawal not seeing a live show for 12 years
I mainly listen to blues and folk nowadays folks and the truth of it is there are not too many current bands I'd cross the street to see.In my time though I have been to gigs by the likes of the Who,Rory Gallagher,The Sensational Alex Harvey Band,The Pirates,Dr.Feelgood,Patti Smith,the Cramps,Queen(when they were good),Status Quo(ditto),the Stranglers and Led Zeppelin.However if Blind Willie Johnson,Mississippi John Hurt,the Rev.Gary Davis or Blind Willie McTell ever come back over to the U.K. I'll really be up for it!
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Link Wray,Newport,Wales,'96.
Rory Gallagher
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Ditto to Danelectro59's posting,he has taken most of the words right out of my mouth.I can remember seeing Rory Gallagher on the 'Old Grey Whistle Test' back in in the very early seventies,the programme showed a clip of a gig and him performing 'Messin' With The Kid' and,I think,'I Could Have Had Religion'.I was about fourteen at the time and I thought he was fantastic.The first record I ever had by any artist was Rory's 'Live In Europe' and I was hooked ever since.I still feel he was hugely underated both as a singer and songwriter.Sadly missed.