Word Association Game

[grumpyhack]

A bit of a convoluted link but the refrain contains the line "Did they play the last Post and Chorus."

A great Irish folk band, The Fureys, with one of my favourite songs "The Green Fields of France."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M3YWuq5UCE

I sometimes use the song in Creative Writing courses. It was written by an Australian, Eric Bogle, after visiting the First World War graveyards in France. Some are huge and go on for mile after mile but he actually wrote it sitting in a tiny graveyard in a small village where I once stayed on holiday.

[whisty]

Guess it has to be Letter. Love him or hate him, played at a gig I caught, was very powerfull at the time.

[grumpyhack]

I'm in the pro Nick Cave camp, so thanks for that Whisty.

Lots of versions of this around but it still makes me chuckle. My daughters grew up with Sesame Street.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uOWG8tjW-8

Meanwhile, from my teenage years The Boxtops doing a rubbish miming job with with The Letter, though I preferred their version of Cry Like a Baby.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIWY8UyW9bw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WoD8yZkvuI

So the link word is Box

Edited December 3, 2014 by grumpyhack

[carlosj]

Link word is QUIZ. From a quiz show, open the box, or take the money?

Steve Miller Band Live From Chicago Take The Mone:

[grumpyhack]

If you do a quiz you have to answer a Question

The magnificent Moodys in their later years but still a great band live.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmOZFAYeurY

I remember first seeing them at the Colston Hall in Bristol in about 1970 when they didn't have a full orchestra like this but a magnificent Mellotron that could reproduce pretty well a full orchestral sound.

Before the days of synthesizers when it was all done with great loops of audiotape. Interesting summary here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellotron

And a demo from Macca.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUcfB5Whp4I

Edited December 4, 2014 by grumpyhack

[whisty]

Both great tunes, Steve Miller & Moody Blues.

Lets see MB in earlier days, always liked this track from their Question of Balance album. Melancholy Man.

Edited December 5, 2014 by whisty

[grumpyhack]

A bit different. Still I'm SAD - a Yardbirds classic performed by Boney M.

A couple of years ago when I was involved with running the Trowbridge Pump Festival the headline band (I can't remember who they were now) pulled out at the last minute due to a family bereavement and what seemed like an odd choice of substitute was arranged. The substitute band was Boney M, who seemed like a very strange choice for a largely folk festival.

But they confounded the cynics and produced an excellent set with superb harmonies that won over the 'finger in the ear' folk purists.

So here's the Boney M take on a song by one of the most significant British blues bands of all time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9aU-9AqfKk

Edited December 5, 2014 by grumpyhack

[whisty]

Fisherman

Sophie Hunger, I partcularly like the use she makes of a muted trombone in a lot of her tunes.

Something a bit more in depth for anybody bored, at the Montreuax Jazz festival.

Edited December 5, 2014 by whisty

[grumpyhack]

A chance for me to plug in passing one of my favourite groups (and really nice people) Show of Hands. One of the finest acts on the folk circuit and great at spotting and championing other singers and groups.

Show of Hands now do an annual show at the Royal Albert Hall and on this bill they invited Fisherman's Friends.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vUqeDPZZ80

So we'll make the link word Australia. Should give plenty of scope.

[oneeye]

Australia is DOWN under

[grumpyhack]

Men at Work produced some good stuff.

This is the excellent Mr Cocker on the UP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXp-MOyZZws

[whisty]

You can look up at the Stars. The clip 35:20 mins in has Joy Malcolm doing the vocals to Natural Blues (trouble so hard), fantastic stuff. Followed by The Stars track. Maybe they should invite him back to Glastonbury.

Edited December 6, 2014 by whisty

[grumpyhack]

I'll go with that suggestion Whisty.

Meanwhile someone who, sadly, never made Glastonbury.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjzZh6-h9fM

So the link word (s) are Spangled or Banner

[oneeye]

From Banner to FLAG

[grumpyhack]

A different Billy doing some different flag raising.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BIvqbyku5g

And the link word can be Red

[whisty]

Billy Talent hurt my ears on a Sunday morning Lets have a bit of Sunday morning smooth (ish). Lights out.

Edited December 7, 2014 by whisty

[grumpyhack]

Sorry Whisty this won't help your ears. But it does link to two previous words in one.

Red Lights Spell Danger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySJ8CZmq2V8

OK, maybe they should stick to their day jobs......

[oneeye]

From danger to high VOLTAGE; would love to see these at Glastonbury

[oneeye]

Billy Talent hurt my ears on a Sunday morning

Glad it blew a few cobwebs away there whisty

[grumpyhack]

After Voltage the obvious would be AC/DC, so instead another take.

If you've never seen them, Hayseed Dixie are huge fun. Heavy metal on acoustic guitars and banjo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siFpZHu2XzI

Also very talented.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11msbDoQkVk

So the link word is Dixie

[oneeye]

From Dixie to engLAND

[grumpyhack]

Land of My Fathers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM4mIlYKG9s

[oneeye]

A tragic day for English rugby, which incidentally is the link; DAY

[grumpyhack]

Well this is a song about a day out (continuing the rugby theme).

The still very funny (if you're Welsh) Max Boyce performing at a magnificent venue the Parc and Dare Hall in Treorchy, in the Rhondda Valley.

The Parc and Dare is one of those great legacies of the mining industry, a 2,000 seater concert hall. With the end of mining in the valley and the subsequent de-population pretty well the whole of the town could now get in. But it still puts on some great shows. My highlight was seeing the Flying Pickets do a benefit there during the Miners's Strike (when I was made an honourary member of the NUM) and. more recently a great Ray Davies show.

Anyway, I digress. Max Boyce and Hymns and Arias (take your pick - no mining pun intended)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0RDadPheN

[oneeye]

A lovely bit of reminiscing there grumps, happy days in turbulent times. I'll go from hymns to PRAYER