Posts by Simon Grigg
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Hebe,
I thought Feargal was some kind of important suit these days?
He was head of a UK music industry association until two weeks back when he announced he was retiring.
From what I understand he's made a lot of dosh over the years from property too.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Hebe,
For Jackie: some more and better Feargal Sharkey
Still perhaps the most perfect pop song ever recorded.
You know you're getting on when Feargal Sharkey retires - he did two weeks back
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Hard News: The Huawei Question, in reply to James George,
Simon I suggest you do some more recent research on Lang. The worm has turned is one way to describe it.
I've been reading his blog since about 2006 thanks James. I think I have a fair handle on what he says and has done.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Ms Waring is a definite one-off, like her record
Bryan mostly treated all the stuff he recorded like that. The Swingers aside, Ripper Records was a series of one offs, wacky ideas and semi-novelty records - many of them actually rather good - rather than artist development or anything that time consuming. Marilyn's record (she and Bryan were close friends) was one of those.
I don't think she was ever required to be interested in it once she left the studio.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Hebe,
Originally the band that Jimmy and I had talked about forming was a lounge jazz band and I think we'd tossed around Reptiles as part of that. When the idea mutated into punk the first name we came up with was AFAICR The Suburbans. The two merged around about the second practice.
Later, Phonogram wanted to drop the Reptiles part but we said no.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Jenkin, without an s if I recall correctly. I also remember him interviewing, was it Buster Stiggs(?) from the Reptiles, on Radio With Pictures.
In early-ish '77 when we'd just begun Reptiling four of us - Buster, guitarist Billy Planet, sax player Jimmy Joy and myself - crashed the doctor's evening show on Radio Hauraki.
He was still firmly stuck in the Little Feat / Steely Dan hole then but he graciously let us play a bunch of records we had and take over part of his show. He loved Elvis Costello (we had one track on a Stiff Records comp as he'd yet to put out an album) and was pretty happy to let us play our treasured Damned and Clash 45s - you couldn't buy the latter in NZ at all.
However he drew a line at The Monkees and demanded to know if we were taking the piss out of him. We weren't but he couldn't see it and he killed the show - or at least our part of it.
A few weeks later he rang and asked if a Reptile would come on RWP. Thus Buster....
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When the Americans went into Panama, legend has it they got Noriega to surrender by playing Queen's We Will Rock You (and The Clash) over and over all night.
It would only take a couple of run throughs of this and I'd be begging for that Florida cell:
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There seems to be a growing consensus that Lou & Metallica is the worst thing ever recorded (and no, please don't hit play on that clip. I've taken the blow for the forum.. )
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
She is about as working class as Rupert Murdoch.
The irony was intentional I think.
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It was actually...
