I dont know about you but I cant think of anything worse than going to see a band I really like in a fucking massive soulless hangar like the S.E.C.C. (Exhibition Centre) in Glasgow. Or worse, a football ground. Who wants to listen a big echoey drum sound, a shit bass and guitar sound while looking at 4 ants on a distant stage. (While paying a weeks wages for the privilege). Rock'n'roll is meant to be experienced in a hot sweaty club where the band are right in yer face and the place is jumping. The Clash once played 16 nights in Bonds in New York rather than play one big stadium. (it did almost kill them but it was a great sentiment and I would have sold my granny to see just one of those gigs!) Give me The Subhumans in the back of a pub anyday and the Rolling Stones at Hampden can kiss my hairy nutsack!!!
Ex Cathedra in Oslo. Jenny never seemed to get as hot and sweaty as us!!
Ex Cathedra in Oslo. Jenny never seemed to get as hot and sweaty as us!!Suppose I should post a new blog soon, ( another one of my wild rants and observations rather than just.. Ooh, I watched telly last nite) I shall get my thinking cap on.......
RADIO EDITS----WHY??
THERES NOTHING THAT ANNOYS ME MORE than listening to a fave song on the radio and bits of it are edited out. Theres a version of Doors- Light my Fire that has the whole keyboard/guitar solo bit cut out!!! Why ? Its the best part of the song. Led Zeps -Whole Lotta Love has a version that cuts out the middle bit with all thefeedback and backward sound effects . Yes its a bit cacophonous and experimental but its the way the artist created it and intended the world to hear it.I think its fucking rude to interfere with someones work just to what...? shave a few seconds off a song . Why? What is this obsession with radio programmers that every song has to last 3 minutes. If you go to an art gallery they dont cut the corners off paintings just to save time when you're looking at it! If they cant play the whole song in its entirety then dont fucking play it!! And while we're on the subject, DJ's ,when you play a record, please shut the fuck up when a song starts and dont open your fat gob until the last note has been played. Again it s totally disrespectful to blab inane shite all over a song . Nobody wants to hear your crap patter, just play the fucking songs, thats what you're there for first and foremost. The late, great DJ John Peel never ever talked over a song, he might have played it at the wrong speed, but he never talked over it! Haha! Sometimes when I'm listening to Classical radio theres such a long gap at the end of the music that I think my radio's stopped working. Now thats respect!
THERES NOTHING THAT ANNOYS ME MORE than listening to a fave song on the radio and bits of it are edited out. Theres a version of Doors- Light my Fire that has the whole keyboard/guitar solo bit cut out!!! Why ? Its the best part of the song. Led Zeps -Whole Lotta Love has a version that cuts out the middle bit with all thefeedback and backward sound effects . Yes its a bit cacophonous and experimental but its the way the artist created it and intended the world to hear it.I think its fucking rude to interfere with someones work just to what...? shave a few seconds off a song . Why? What is this obsession with radio programmers that every song has to last 3 minutes. If you go to an art gallery they dont cut the corners off paintings just to save time when you're looking at it! If they cant play the whole song in its entirety then dont fucking play it!! And while we're on the subject, DJ's ,when you play a record, please shut the fuck up when a song starts and dont open your fat gob until the last note has been played. Again it s totally disrespectful to blab inane shite all over a song . Nobody wants to hear your crap patter, just play the fucking songs, thats what you're there for first and foremost. The late, great DJ John Peel never ever talked over a song, he might have played it at the wrong speed, but he never talked over it! Haha! Sometimes when I'm listening to Classical radio theres such a long gap at the end of the music that I think my radio's stopped working. Now thats respect!
ITS A FUNNY OLD WORLD!
Its funny how the passing of time can totally change the perspective of our thinking in society as a whole. For example , in 1977 , Johnny Rotten was a pariah, satan incarnate, and Gary Glitter was a harmless lovable showbiz character. Fast forward 30 years and Mr. Lydon is selling margarine on telly and Gary Glitter...well the less said about him the better!! Yes its a funny old world indeed.
