Posts by Chris Waugh
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Hard News: Local interest, in reply to Hebe,
Kyle Chapman seems so nice… until his answer to question 4.
ETA: and, of course, except for the name of his party.
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Hard News: No Red Wedding, in reply to James Butler,
The signal to start the killing was The Internationale,
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Moon Festival got me a spectacular sunset.
And a very cool dawn (that extra 500 metres in altitude over Beijing really does make a difference).
But this was the best moon shot I managed - combination of a lack gear like a tripod or a suitable substitute (the in-laws have cleaned up their courtyard a bit) and skill. Must practice more.
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Hard News: Friday Music: History, motherfuckers, in reply to Russell Brown,
In Marley's case, no one's quite sure who shot up his place,
Well, yes, but Ben referenced I Shot the Sheriff, which predates the attack by a few years. But given the time and place he grew up in, I suppose that could easily refer to some much earlier incident in his life - I seem to recall hearing a story that when Eric Clapton called to ask if he could cover it, he asked Marley if there was any real life basis to the story in the song, and got a rather non-committal answer.
Incidentally, I always associated Iron, Lion, Zion with the attack on his house, partly because of lyrics like "I had to run like a fugitive/Just to save the life I lived", partly because of footage in the video of Marley pointing out bullet holes in the walls of his house and joining Manley and Seaga's hands over his head at the One Love Peace Conference, but I just discovered that that, too, predates the attack by a few years. And was apparently released post-humously. So now I've refiled that in the slightly creepy section along with Bruce Lee's Game of Death.
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Hard News: Friday Music: History, motherfuckers, in reply to BenWilson,
Surely we're talking about stars being on the receiving end of death threats and bullets? Still, he does claim to have shot Sheriff John Brown in a kind of pre-emptive self-defence.
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Hard News: Friday Music: History, motherfuckers, in reply to nzlemming,
Was that about his music?
Probably not. Jamaica was a political mess at the time, lots of violence between supporters of two parties. It happened a couple of days before he played a concert organised by Michael Manley, then he went into exile in London, returning to play the One Love Peace Concert, the one in which he invited Michael Manley and Edward Seaga on stage and joined their hands.
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Hard News: Friday Music: History, motherfuckers, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
Indeed. Bob Marley even had gunmen storm his home attempting to kill him.
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Hard News: Friday Music: History, motherfuckers, in reply to Russell Brown,
gives a masterclass in missing the point.
I'm not sure he missed the point so much as quite deliberately gave the point the widest berth possible.
Sweetman's view was that it was being marketed and hyped as something it was not
Well, yes, and the real problem was with everything else he wrote, which I thought everybody made perfectly clear.
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Whether you do or do not have a TV strikes me as being utterly irrelevant. What I saw in the cartoon Farmer Green referred to is a comment on how for so many of us these days nothing is real unless it's filtered through the media.
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Hard News: Moving on, in reply to Farmer Green,
See image 28 – TV sunrise:-
Nice, and ouch, sums up so much of our current existence.
