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Northern Monkey

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  1. Well have been posting here for 5 years on and off and swore I would never do this but as uploading pictures for family thought why not.

    Old Geezer.........spent two nights in this mouse infested bothy in the middle of nowhere

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    Action man in the Cairngorms

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    Stunning surroundings and a Northern Monkey

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  2. The Fall are Great, Hex Induction hour is not one of their great albums, Same with Nick Cave, Tender prey is not Nick at his best.

    Now then, Trout Mask Replica..............have owned it for about 30 years, even replaced it on CD. No matter how stoned or drunk I have been, have never made it all the way through, maybe a retirement project.

    Bloody critics.

  3. Miss Honeydripper

    If you buy a compilation (there are lots) make sure it has Fanfare for the common man (full version) and Pirates, because it sure as hell is not worth buying Works for anaything else.

    Otherwise Brain Salad Surgery, Tarkus or Trilogy..............in that order.

    The live one would be a good place to start as it contains all of Tarkus and Karn Evil 9 and some serious wigging out in Aquatarkus.

    ELP live

  4. Saw them on Heavy Horses and Stormwatch tours.......fantastic, Barriemore Barlow was amazing.

    Now here is my Jethro Tull story.

    Way back in the 80's before becoming a Scientist, I used to manage a large dairy farm in Buckinghamshire and agriculturally speaking Ian Anderson was our next door neighbour (Beacons Bottom, Radnage). We shared the same farm vet who once mentioned to IA that he had an antique dulcimer on which IA asked him if he could have a look at it. To cut a long story short he had it restored and used it on the Heavy Horses album. As a thank you he then presented the Vet with the first vinyl pressing of the HH album catalogue number 0001............nice!

    I once had to phone him and ask him to move his damn bullocks from our wheat................cant do that at the moment the chaps are far too busy.................bad farming etiquette, still he is a musical genious so forgave him and moved the damn things myself :angry:

  5. I saw ELP in 1973 in Dallas on their Brain Salad Surgery Tour. It was a Quad concert ( BIG speakers in front, and in the back of the auditorium).

    I recommend their Live CD "Welcome Back My Friends" to anyone curious about what all the talk is about ELP.

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    I got my UK copy new from Half-Bay for a Good Price.

    What he said, I thought it must have been overdubbed to hell until I got some of the bootleg series and realised they really were that good live.

  6. Lots of people gave up on JT after "Stormwatch", but I say they kept on kickin' ass.....great band and Ian always BROUGHT that some kinda magic to the Tull sound!!!!

    KEEP IT REAL TULL :) :)

    I'm afraid I am one of those (saw them on stormwatch tour), but have recently bought some of the later stuff, love the song Mountain men (cant remeber which album), just dont think they were (are) as consistant in the later years.

    But the Evan, Barlow, Palmer, Barre, Glascock et al band did display a certain amount of genius that I feel was never repeated.

  7. It was in the film lock, stock and two smoking barrels, I was working in Reading at the time and I still have a northern accent so my mates started calling me it. Not applicable up here in the highlands though..........as being from Lancashire I would be a soft southern shandy drinking pansy...........which I'm not.

  8. Been a massive fan since 75, saw them in 78 (in the round) and 80 (Buggles)...........The Fish live is something to behold, you dont so much hear it as feel it in your guts.

    Hey Joel would have loved to catch them on the Relayer tour, some of the Boots are awesome.

    Guilty pleasure, I actually love Topographic Oceans, especially The Remembering...........in fact on my way home from work in an hour to listen to the whole damn thing including the demos on the Remastered version..............well thats my evening sorted unless someone (ideally female) comes up with a better option.

  9. Well, how long have you been a fan?

    Since 86 when I heard Begin the Begin

    Do you like all their stuff or just one era?

    Up to Bill Berry leaving really then kinda lost interest.....

    Seen them live? What did you think?

    Green World Tour Hammersmith Odeon (fukin' awesome, Orange crush, Turn You Inside Out and Perfect Circle) , Monster Milton Keynes (ok), Up, Earls Court (slick and professional, best moment sweetness follows)

    What's the rarest release that you own?

    Nothing really, but got some great boots.

    Favorite song?

    Live versions of Perfect Circle from Green world tour

    Favorite album?

    Document

    Favorite member?

    Silly question

    (I realize this a lot of questions, but they are one of my favorite bands (top ten))

    I'll answer when I have had more sleep. B)

  10. Always got two on the go (see previous post), usually music and mountaineering books.

    First the music.

    Guy Pratt My Bass and other Animals.

    Very funny story of a session man, played for the latter day Pink Floyd among others, full of witty anecdotes. The story of the boozy plane flight with Jimmy Page is hilarious, here is the excerpt from his stand up show.

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    Mountaineering book

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    Tenzing is my hero, he clawed his way up from yak herder to.........well......Tenzing

    A glorious life ultimately ruined (in my opinion) by a younger woman, alcohol and a feeling he never did enough for the sherpa people which is absolute rubbish vis-a-vis the Himalayen Mountaineering Institute in Darjeeling. At the end of his life him and Hillary became close friends and spent a lot of time just talking. The story of his funeral is amazing and very moving. A true hero and a great story about the loss of innocence.

    Tenzing (left) and Hillary 1953 just after their succesful summit. Little did they know that their whole lives would change forever after this.

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    .......and finally Tenzing on the summit of Everest 1953.........iconic or what?

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  11. The White Spider.

    Heinrich Harrer.

    About the first ascent of the north face of the Eiger of which harrer was one of the four. He later became famous for writing Seven Years in Tibet.

    Just finished the Alice Cooper book about golf. Funny how you can 'go off' your heroes. He just comes across as an arragant name dropper. Its disgusting the way he refers the original band as if they were just his backing group. Even 33 years after they split, 90% of his live show is made up of tunes penned by Bruce, Buxton, Dunaway and Smith which has to tell you something.

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