Word Association Game

[grumpyhack]

Annie Lennox and the Eurythmics were magnificent live. One of the show stealers at Live Aid.

From Angel we go to Night.

This is the magnificent Grace Slick (for the youngsters here the original lead singer with Jefferson Airplane) with Angel of the Night from her solo album Dreams which she recorded after leaving Airplane. It's an album well worth hunting out. Sorry there's no live performance but you get a feeling for the power of her voice.

Just to have a bit of live too this is Grace and Jefferson Airplane at Woodstock. Scary to think she wrote this song when she was only fifteen years old.

[whisty]

Ended,

Nice mix of French Electro swing and Gypsy Jazz. Live recording is way better than the recorded stuff. Sassy

Were supposed to be at Glastonbury 2011 but pulled for some reason, shame.

Edited May 14, 2014 by whisty

[grumpyhack]

Saw Caravan Palace at Wychwood last year. Very good, scored an 8 on our Glastonbury Scale and would recommend highly.

Before I move on, an explanation of our Glastonbury Scale. It's a score out of ten (ten being top) for the question: "For what they do, how well do they do it?"

The formulation of the question allows you to compare chalk and cheese. For example a young girl solo folkie acoustic singer could get a 9 whereas a top, established stadium band, might only get a 7.

Our sad gang score all the acts we see in our programmes and compare notes and debate hotly later. But it's a way of remembering through the haze after the festival who stood out. So from last year's Wychwood my tops were Lo'Jo, a French band, Gaz Brookfield, winner of the Acoustic Magazine Singer/Songwriter of the year in 2010 who scored 9, with a 10 going to Bill Bailey. Bottom came Public Service Broadcasting with a 5.

Anyway, I digress. The link from ended is Ace.

A bit of country with the Amazing Rhythm Aces and a good bounce along number.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ik0I3nyGF4

[carlosj]

Gotta go with the GAMBLER then. Nice system mr hack.

Kenny Rogers - The Gambler:

[oneeye]

Marvellous stuff there carlosj, happy memories from last year. From gambler we go to BET

[brandycoke]

Grand National my one and only time in a bookies every year, not much of a better really.

Which leads me nicely on to Roddy Frame with Bigger,Brighter,Better.

Take Bigger or brighter whichever you prefer.

[carlosj]

Aren't things bigger in Texas? Link word is TIRED

A Texas rancher was visiting a farmer in Wharfedale. The proud Yorkshireman showed him around. "Here is where I grow my vegetables. Over there I built a play set for my kids, next to the doghouse," the farmer said.

The land was tiny, and the Texan was surprised by its small size. "Is this all your land?" he asked.

"Yes," the Tyke said proudly. "This is all mine!"

"You mean this is it? This is all of it?" the Texan said incredulously.

"Yes, yes, this is really all mine!"

"Well, son," said the Texan, "back home I'd get in my car before the sun'd come up and I'd drive and drive and drive, and when the sun set, why, I'd only be halfway across my land!"

"Oh, yes," replied the canny farmer wistfully, "I used to have a car like that."

Edited May 14, 2014 by carlosj

[grumpyhack]

A chance to post a clip from another of my favourite films - the Mel Brooks' classic Blazing Saddles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIb5872TLXo

This is the classic fart scene from the film but the link word is Saddle

Edited May 14, 2014 by grumpyhack

[brandycoke]

There was a great line from that film, went something like "I'd like to offer you a laurel..and hardy handshake. :-)

Great stuff.

From saddle to cowboy and one of the great live albums.

[oneeye]

Morning everyone, another fine start to the day. From cowboy to LONE; it's almost the weekend pop pickers

[carlosj]

Can't resist taking the link to PINE, and referencing back to Laurel and Hardy. I've a soft spot for this duet.

http://youtu.be/B13QoA59tA4

[grumpyhack]

You have a pine tree. This is the Alabama T(h)ree

Worth catching either in the stripped down acoustic line up or the full band.

Interesting explanation from Larry Love on how their best known song originated.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYSJVBO8ARA

So the link word is Alabama

[oneeye]

From Alabama to MONTGOMERY

[grumpyhack]

Sorry after such a classy clip to lower the tone but from Montgomery to Full

Another excellent film still worth hunting out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLeddqhaao8

[carlosj]

Sinking lower, more strippers. Taking the link to PASTY, mine's a Cornish please.

Tom Waits - Rockpalast 1977 05 Pasties And A G St:

[grumpyhack]

A pasty also known as an Oggie.

This is a song written by Cyril Tawney about a sailor who sets off to sea. As his wife bids him farewell she assures him that her love will endure - rather like the Oggie Man who has a stall selling oggies which has been a fixture at the gates of Devonport Dockyard for years..

The sailor returns from sea. The Oggie Man is no more - and neither is his wife.

Performed at The Eden Project.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rs9b73Oxnw

Oggie may be too limited a link - so let's go with Sailor

Edited May 15, 2014 by grumpyhack

[oneeye]

It's Friday! A tad murky this morning, sure it will burn off though; from sailor to JERRY

[oneeye]

Good morning Grumpyhack,

'A pasty also known as an Oggie'; also known as a Janner Kebab!

The pasty shop is outside St Levans Gate Devonport Dockyard, called Ron Dewneys.

His brother also has a number of oggie shops, Ivor Dewney. The main difference between them is the pastry, Ron's are shortcrust whilst Ivors are a tad flakey. I believe there has been a family fall out and the two brothers don't speak, though that could just be an urban myth / marketing ploy.

Both types of oggie are 'ansom

[oneeye]

As a footnote, Pilgrim Pasties also get delivered around the Dockyard by 'white van man' (sorry, I don't know his name); also 'ansom

[carlosj]

Edit, from jerry to CAN. Skip past DLT in this TOTP clip....

Bad Manners - Can-Can (TOTP):

Morning all. Feel very informed, and hungry now :-) No post yet here, as I'm on IE8 and that doesn'y post correctly.

While I'm not posting, allow me a minute to go off piste, relating to food. A game we picked up from Radcliffe and Maconie which I use on long trips is food bands (or songs), such as Arctic Roll Monkeys, Robert Crayfish and Egg Foo Yung Fighters.... However, I'll leave that for other times and get back to thinking of word associations

Edited May 16, 2014 by carlosj

[grumpyhack]

Jerry leads through to Gerry and Alone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcBRHYuOr-A

Thinking about the above comments maybe it should be Gerry and the Piemakers.

Who'd have thought that a song from a 1945 musical Carousel by Rogers and Hammerstein could have become one of the greatest football anthems of all time.

Mind you Bristol Rovers, my wife's family's lifelong team, have Goodnight Irene, written by bluesman Leadbelly.

Edited May 16, 2014 by grumpyhack

[oneeye]

From alone to TOGETHER by AEROsmith

http://youtu.be/pTxuv0w8LnY

[oneeye]

Evening grumps

[grumpyhack]

I hate to even mention that four letter word but the link is Work

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie4IPkvgtOY

Great 60s and 70s band. Included Walter Trout, who went on to be John Mayall's main guitarist for many years. Sadly now fighting liver/kidney failure.

[grumpyhack]

Evening grumps

Evening Oneeye. Happy bunny today as just had a 100 watt solar panel fitted to the caravan to keep the leisure battery topped up and power the lighting and the pump for the shower. Just two weeks to first try out at Wychwood and the start of my festival season.