Posts by Rob Hosking
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Overweening pretension + minimal talent? Sounds progressive.
And the whimsy. Don't forget the whimsy.
There can be only one of us, dammit!
Annnd there it is.
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Gruesome yet satisfying crunching noises were made.
Crack your bones!!! Eddie Izzard on a related topic:
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The old picture theatre in Avondale had a phase in the mid 80s of running famous rock movies. I think it was on Sunday nights - I remember me and a bunch of flatmates busting a gut to get back from Waiheke one weekend in time to see 'Kids Are Alright'.
"Last Waltz" was one of them. One of my flatmates was mildly stoned and she got the giggles over the yodelling in 'Up on Cripple Creek'. Oh, and Van Morrison's flares. She thought they were hysterical.
Anyway...they also had 'Song Remains the Same'; there was a David Bowie live in concert film, 'Gimme Shelter', among others.
At the end of this run of rock films they showed "This is Spinal Tap". Brilliant.
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Small voice from Wellington cableland here... is TVNZ 7 going to be on TelstraClear's cable teev?
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Do I earn the chocolate fish for actually owning the Rock n Roll Circus DVD?
I should think that earns you a truckload of choclatey marshmellowy sugar rush badness.
From memory, Jethro Tull is on that as well. The 'Stones sang but mimed their instrumentation to backing tracks..again, this is from memory. Marianne Faithful sang 'Something Better' and looked terrified. (I don't own it but watched it at a mate's place one, not long after it came out. I was a bit disappointed in it, to be honest).
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I blame 'A Quick One, While He's Away': the proto- Tommy.
Yeahh...maybe. The live version on 'Kids are Alright' from 'The Rolling Stones Rock n Roll Circus' though is awesome. According to legend, its the reason the Stones didn't release the Circus for years: they thought the Who had blown them off the stage.
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My Jethro Tull moment...well, hours: hitched a lift from Wellington to Auckland, August, 1982. Got a lift at Paramata from a Jethro Tull fan who was driving to Pukekohe - 20kms from the folks' farm. The perfect long distance lift.
He played Jethro Tull tapes the whole way. Nine hours. No other artist soiled his tape machine. Until then, I'd had no strong feelings about them one way or t'other. By the end...blood pressure going like locomotive breath.
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OMG, PA just recapitulated the entire 70's in microcosm.
And managed to avoid disco and the Carpenters.
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I've been thinking about all of the people who went into a studio with Paul who are no longer with us....Could there be some kind of deadly Dorian Grey thing going on here?
Or.... something even more sinister.
Maybe those freaks was right when they said he was dead. He is a zombie vampire returned to claim his collaborators....
Shit. I've really got to get back to work.
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That's really true, and probably explains why I love The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society,
Ditto. The thing...well, one of the things...about VGPS is it is like a radio play (albiet a plotless one). Like a good radio play (or maybe a poem) it is 'evocative' in the truest sense of the word - i.e. it evokes images and stories in the listeners mind. The imagination of the audience has a role. It doesn't spell out every damn thing.
It may not be a coincidence that part of the inspiration was a radio adaptation of Dylan Thomas's 'Under Milk Wood'.
Also: do not underestimate the power of three good musical minutes. Get in, get out, don't faff about.
Hear hear. Again, less is more.