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Post by gnd on Oct 28, 2013 2:28:37 GMT 2
Hamburg*
*the cradle of British Rock
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a bit hard to follow, what with having to keep looking up words such as gougers,coshes,garotters; and never having actually heard of most of the bands, singers, managers.
The cover and info was very interesting, and the book was on sale, a few dollars. A bit of a triangle, from Jerry Lee Lewis to Merseybeat. A fairly brutal, behind the scenes account.
Think I´ll put it in the give away stack, once I read it.
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Post by Grecian on Oct 28, 2013 21:50:33 GMT 2
Why buy the fucker in the first place, you Dork?...
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Post by gnd on Oct 29, 2013 11:37:15 GMT 2
to read, obviously, at.some.point.
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Post by Grecian on Oct 29, 2013 20:59:17 GMT 2
"A sometimes frank look at how some of the greatest rock idols from the uk cut ttheir teeth in live performance. Hamburg a city trying to rebel it's gloomy past. Sex drugs and rock and roll was on the menu - a taste of what could be for some and of what was to come for others."
Looks like Adam Clayson wrote that review himself!
Apart from The Beatles; anyone else even heard of Hamburg as regards the Music Scene?
I know that loads of Punk bands played there but what do you really expect back in 1977?
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Post by gnd on Oct 31, 2013 4:12:13 GMT 2
No, I hadn´t, which was why I was curious. I´m surprised at the connections. I will finish it soon, but it´s a lot of time looking up people, bands...
It is is interesting though--I had not realized what a huge influence Hamburg was.
The "Rock" category of "music" now seems more close to what I grew up calling "alternative". Rock to me was Malmsteen, ACDC, Alice Cooper. I smiled on the bus at some teenagers talking about music, how it sucks now...how they love the old stuff....
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Post by Grecian on Oct 31, 2013 21:14:29 GMT 2
It's not a fucking 'huge influence' though, is it!
If the Punk scene was so 'big' there, how come the the most famous Hamburg Punk Band is called Slime and no one has heard of the Fuckers..eh?
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Post by gnd on Nov 4, 2013 14:28:07 GMT 2
no, the influence, I gather, is more of the general cultural and openness of being in Hamburg, which was a huge influence on the Beatles (not really my cup of tea, but beside the point), and others. Not a music expert, so obviously I hadn´t heard of most in the book, as I said,)
Shame Sutcliffe died of a brain aneurysm (apparently from a Mersyside incident a year before where he´d not gotten medical attention after being throw against a wall, depending on which story is true), as he was a truly imho amazing painter.
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Post by outside cat @wino on Nov 4, 2013 23:26:05 GMT 2
The Hungry Caterpillar to my grandson.
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Post by gnd on Nov 5, 2013 21:59:54 GMT 2
ah great kids book wino! And the artwork is so fun. Enjoy that, both of you:)
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Post by Grecian on Nov 6, 2013 20:19:29 GMT 2
Stuart Sutcliffe was an "amazing painter"?? Where did you get that shit from??
Kids books started and finished with Dr Zeuss...
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Post by gnd on Nov 7, 2013 15:28:23 GMT 2
yeah! love his art! he was imho a much better artist painting than in a band.
yes we all love Dr Zuess:)
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Post by Grecian on Nov 8, 2013 20:53:35 GMT 2
Yeah, it's soooo fucking coool!  Fucking hell that is shite and you are beginning to come across as a bit of an illegal immigrant Git to be honest, gnd... |
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Post by gnd on Nov 9, 2013 11:42:58 GMT 2
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Post by gnd on Nov 9, 2013 11:46:21 GMT 2
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Post by Grecian on Nov 9, 2013 22:05:06 GMT 2
I'll go that you are over 60; a Laydee and are mad and should be deported....?
I can discuss 'Art' with you anytime but you just talk Shite and it really isn't a good combination when Art and opinions are involved....
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Post by gnd on Nov 10, 2013 19:38:10 GMT 2
yeah you want another beer?
you can ´splain me about soccer then. Sports don´t have opinions do they? It´s just rules, right?
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Post by Grecian on Nov 10, 2013 20:27:01 GMT 2
You've run your course and are now, offishially classed as Boring...
You carry on...
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Post by gnd on Nov 10, 2013 21:55:35 GMT 2
I´ve offended you.
gah, finally.
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Post by gnd on Nov 11, 2013 13:59:58 GMT 2
was kidding btw. That "yeah you want another beer" was a line in a movie I was watching as I was typing. Totally random line. Though way more obscure than the other line you rightly got.
*leaves Tinny in peace, to flush my himself*
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Post by Grecian on Nov 11, 2013 21:54:21 GMT 2
Where did you offend me?
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