tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post1005710157421971569..comments2024-03-27T09:27:33.931+00:00Comments on Idiotic Hat: Aladdin SaneMike C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-59069488712604935142016-01-18T22:13:17.727+00:002016-01-18T22:13:17.727+00:00Ah . . . an interesting one. According to my well-...Ah . . . an interesting one. According to my well-thumbed Collins English Dictionary, funk means, in this case, "to avoid doing something through fear". However, for me the phrase came via the either the MM or the NME writing in the late 1970s about Richard Thompson's return to songwriting and recording after his mid-70s hiatus.<br /><br />Then again, maybe I dreamt it all and it was all just a bad stilton cheese inspired dream. Just like Dali and "The Persistence of Memory".Dave Leekehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17971308602082668644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-59806615452624424712016-01-14T21:43:09.544+00:002016-01-14T21:43:09.544+00:00Was that where it was? I thought it was at the Ra...Was that where it was? I thought it was at the Rainbow, or maybe that was another gig -- I saw them a few times.<br /><br />"Slammed my funk"?? That phrase doesn't occur even *once* on Google!<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-63947205697404912702016-01-14T21:22:11.987+00:002016-01-14T21:22:11.987+00:00Ah, of course you and I went to see Jethro Tull pe...Ah, of course you and I went to see Jethro Tull performing "Passion Play" at Wembley. I never realised how far Wembley was from Stevenage by train in those days. <br /><br />I love "Hunky Dory" it is now officially my favourite DB album.<br /><br />Yep, started blogging again. Slammed my funk and realised I'm essentially just a lazy bastard. Expect plenty more poorly thought out opinion soon.<br /><br />DaveDave Leekehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17971308602082668644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-68219910980796692942016-01-14T16:55:59.146+00:002016-01-14T16:55:59.146+00:00Dave,
Started posting again? About time. Sandie,...Dave,<br /><br />Started posting again? About time. Sandie, ZD, et al. were huge "Ziggy Stardust" fans when it came out, but "Passion Play" had also just come out, and I had other fish to fry. I've always liked "Hunky Dory" a lot, though.<br /><br />Mike Mike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-22659055597243959482016-01-14T16:34:13.926+00:002016-01-14T16:34:13.926+00:00As I've pointed out in my own post, Bowie had ...As I've pointed out in my own post, Bowie had already started to try out his Ziggy persona five months earlier on Whistle Test. For some of us that TOTP performance wasn't quite as shocking as we had had time to catch our breath. But the cultural phenomenon of the media frenzy in the post-Bowie World is an interesting one.<br /><br />I look forward to your Anderson post.<br /><br />DaveDave Leekehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17971308602082668644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-18820801216969697862016-01-12T10:05:33.152+00:002016-01-12T10:05:33.152+00:00I imagine you belong to the generation that, in Br...I imagine you belong to the generation that, in Britain, saw "Starman" performed on BBC's "Top of the Tops" in 1972 aged around 12/13 and were at college during Bowie's post-"Berlin" phase. I think he "belongs" to that generation more properly -- I worked as a teaching assistant during my 1972 "gap year", and whereas for my generation there was always a certain irony about Bowie and his posturing, I could see a cultish devotion developing among my younger charges. Golden years...<br /><br />*My* posturing idiot was Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull, but that's another post...<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-91852595152996833062016-01-12T02:49:45.998+00:002016-01-12T02:49:45.998+00:00Yup.
Ziggy Stardust was very important to me one ...Yup.<br /><br />Ziggy Stardust was very important to me one summer. Very very important. I still own a copy and play it every now and then. The bastard could write.<br /><br />My favorite will anyways be the kitschy bit with Bing Crosby, though. Two lovely generous performers doing a thing. What else can you ask for?<br />amolitorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15743439184763617516noreply@blogger.com