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    1bassleft
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    Some of these twins took a long time between them heading down the old canal:

    The Jam’s “Start” = The Beatles’ “Taxman”
    Goldfrapp “Ooh La La” = Norman Greenbaum’s “Spirit in the Sky”
    Phil Collins’ “Sussudio” = Prince’s “1999”

    Any other coincidences out there?

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    • #75330
      lee_UK
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      Shes still top totty. 😆

    • #75343
      1bassleft
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      Pull her finger, Lee, pull her finger…

      Yep, she’s done stage school; did well in “Chicago”. It’s a sign of the times that a performer is beyond reproach if they’ve done a little stint of paying their dues. Literally thousands of spotty sprogs fall out of sub-RADA-esque establishments, looking for work and ending up on Bid-Up-TV. Thanks to the instant-gratification of a “waitress-turned-Popstar” TV show, any old “trained” performer must suddenly be a cut above.

      Sorry, don’t buy it. And she’s from Essex 🙂

    • #75308
      lee_UK
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      Denise has talent, she can sing and dance, shes trained and done her 3 years at drama school, i think to describe her as a ‘blonde bint’ is a bit much, and she comes from Essex, so i will defend her to to the death. 😡
      Damned ex southerner northerners have no respect.

    • #75344
      Michael
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      I’m with 1b… shes nothin. As for pommy birds, I’ve taken a likin’ to this Sienna Miller lass and few others off your “Keen Eddie” export. Beats Aussie TV at the moment.

    • #75319
      1bassleft
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      [quote]i think you have some issues with ‘the prat in the hat’ is it because he pulls all the top totty? denise van outen, phwooar.[/quote]

      The ugly, farting, blonde bint? I only allow myself two commas when describing unter-celebs, such as Denise. So, no, that’s not it. I just think JK is a widget.

    • #75305
      Michael
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      More recently… Yellowcard’s One Year, Six Months – same as Green Day’s Time Of Your Life. You heard it from me first.

    • #75342
      lee_UK
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      [quote=”1bassleft”]Might be an urban myth. I’d heard something similar, but there’s no evidence of it. I wonder if somebody got mixed up with Floyd‘s Nick Mason?

      I distinctly remember seeing a pre-Live8 gig and Floyd were openly playing with a 2nd drummer. Nick was taking it nice and easy, putting the basic groove down and resting his Ferarri throttle ankle (and gearshift wrist) while the younger buck did all the flash.

      Seeing as Nick is incredibly affable (he had the first F40 in Britain and let Car magazine test drive it. Chucked the staffer the keys, “Watch out for the hangar doors when you’re reversing out” and went back to his cuppa) I didn’t find this too outrageous.

      I mean, can you see Jay Kay doing that? Two things stick in my mind about the diminutive Stevie Wonder copyist.

      a) He drives like Stevie. He managed to total three pieces of exotica while filming a video egofest.
      b) He got very irate when he reckoned one of a crowd of paps had scratched his new Bentley. He picked on the only pap shorter than him (took some finding) and did the Hagler/Hearns eyeball. The pap beautifully nutted him, splashing his nose the width of a tabloid front-page. Laugh? Oh yes.[/quote]

      i think you have some issues with ‘the prat in the hat’ is it because he pulls all the top totty? denise van outen, phwooar.

    • #75345
      glw
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      [quote=”1bassleft”]I distinctly remember seeing a pre-Live8 gig and Floyd were openly playing with a 2nd drummer. Nick was taking it nice and easy, putting the basic groove down and resting his Ferarri throttle ankle (and gearshift wrist) while the younger buck did all the flash.[/quote]

      I saw Pink Floyd’s first “The Wall” gig at Earl’s Court, back in the day, and the entire band were doubled. Two drummers, two keyboardists, two bassists, and two guitarists (the extra one being Snowy White).

    • #75323
      1bassleft
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      Might be an urban myth. I’d heard something similar, but there’s no evidence of it. I wonder if somebody got mixed up with Floyd‘s Nick Mason?

      I distinctly remember seeing a pre-Live8 gig and Floyd were openly playing with a 2nd drummer. Nick was taking it nice and easy, putting the basic groove down and resting his Ferarri throttle ankle (and gearshift wrist) while the younger buck did all the flash.

      Seeing as Nick is incredibly affable (he had the first F40 in Britain and let Car magazine test drive it. Chucked the staffer the keys, “Watch out for the hangar doors when you’re reversing out” and went back to his cuppa) I didn’t find this too outrageous.

      I mean, can you see Jay Kay doing that? Two things stick in my mind about the diminutive Stevie Wonder copyist.

      a) He drives like Stevie. He managed to total three pieces of exotica while filming a video egofest.
      b) He got very irate when he reckoned one of a crowd of paps had scratched his new Bentley. He picked on the only pap shorter than him (took some finding) and did the Hagler/Hearns eyeball. The pap beautifully nutted him, splashing his nose the width of a tabloid front-page. Laugh? Oh yes.

    • #75322
      lee_UK
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      A drummer we once played with told me, that Charlie Watts of the Stones used to have a drummer behind a curtain filling for him, what a load of B*****S, everything he said after that comment i veiwed with great suspicion, the things some people say.

    • #75348
      Tim
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      [quote=”glw”]I went to see them once (Transvision Vamp, that is), I’ll admit to that.

      They were appalling. The guitarist with his Gretsch White Falcon was incapable of playing, so they had a second guitarist doing all the real guitar work on a Strat while the official fellow just posed with his instrument. For an encore they just repeated one of the songs they’d payed earlier because they’d run out of material. Absolutely dreadful.[/quote]

      Ever watched an Elvis video? He did that all the time, the title eludes but on one video his left hand ‘just happens’ to be behind a column for each solo guitar bit. And he still rocked. Not fair 😡

    • #75340
      lee_UK
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      [quote=”1bassleft”]Well, the Shampoo quote was heavily-stylized Essex-stylee (mostly intended to get the profanities through my rigorous, mod’s censorship).

      The Stoke heckler was slightly sending up his own accent (or perhaps had been kept in a windowless room and only conversed with his grandparents).

      As for me, I’m born a Southerner and, despite a long stint in various bits of the north, it hasn’t much rubbed off. People think I’m “posh” (talking, I mean. They don’t think I’m a tone-deaf, balloon-breasted, mouse-waisted publicity-seeking machine).[/quote]

      Essex?? we dont have any ‘Winkers’ down here, if you went round winking at people you would end up in Basildon accident and emergency, along with all the other winkers.

    • #75312
      Michael
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      😆 I see! thanks for the rundown.

    • #75317
      1bassleft
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      Well, the Shampoo quote was heavily-stylized Essex-stylee (mostly intended to get the profanities through my rigorous, mod’s censorship).

      The Stoke heckler was slightly sending up his own accent (or perhaps had been kept in a windowless room and only conversed with his grandparents).

      As for me, I’m born a Southerner and, despite a long stint in various bits of the north, it hasn’t much rubbed off. People think I’m “posh” (talking, I mean. They don’t think I’m a tone-deaf, balloon-breasted, mouse-waisted publicity-seeking machine).

    • #75304
      Michael
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      Is that your accent 1b? I’m only really familiar with those of the Bill.

    • #75328
      1bassleft
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      Hijacking slightly, I went to review a couple of unsigneds and couldn’t much avoid the headline act, “Shampoo” (remember them?). They were given the typical, merciless treatment that Stoke-on-Trent crowds hand out to hyped rubbish (“Uh-oh, we’re in trouble” alright).

      My favourite bit was one of the girls shouted out that the crowd were all “Norfern, farkin, 70s winkers” to which some wag shouted “Watch thee tong or I’ll tell thee mutha”, that just had us all in hysterics.

    • #75331
      glw
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      [quote=”Tim”]Didn’t claim to be a fan…but I am a bit sad, I research my posts, therefore, I happen to know that if you listen around the 2min mark they even use the der-der-der-duuuuuuuuuuur bit, I suspect I may be the only person to get 2mins through that song. :lol:[/quote]

      I went to see them once (Transvision Vamp, that is), I’ll admit to that.

      They were appalling. The guitarist with his Gretsch White Falcon was incapable of playing, so they had a second guitarist doing all the real guitar work on a Strat while the official fellow just posed with his instrument. For an encore they just repeated one of the songs they’d payed earlier because they’d run out of material. Absolutely dreadful.

    • #75325
      glw
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      [quote=”lee_UK”]how did you get that big gap? you could drive a routemaster double decker bus through that![/quote]

      Don’t get me started on Routemasters! I think it’s a crying shame that they are getting rid of them all in London and replacing them with the hideous road-hogging “bendy-buses”.

      http://www.savetheroutemaster.com/

    • #75307
      Tim
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      Didn’t claim to be a fan…but I am a bit sad, I research my posts, therefore, I happen to know that if you listen around the 2min mark they even use the der-der-der-duuuuuuuuuuur bit, I suspect I may be the only person to get 2mins through that song. 😆

    • #75303
      lee_UK
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      how did you get that big gap? you could drive a routemaster double decker bus through that!

    • #75293
      glw
      Participant

      Transvision Vamp.

      They were great, weren’t they?

      That’s sarcasm, by the way.

    • #75263
      Tim
      Participant

      ‘Baby I Don’t Care’ by ‘Transvision Vamp’ and ‘Wild Thing’, maybe its a bass thing…

    • #75279
      lee_UK
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      i only knew that one cos in one of the bands im in we play Cigs and Alchohol and Get it on, and the other guitarist starts both of them, its a 50/50 to see what happens, half of us join in with bolan while the other half go down the Oasis route, always a recipe for disaster.

    • #75286
      1bassleft
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      You’re right about Cigs and booze, Lee. Blimey, I knew Elastica pinched a bit of ideas, but who’d’ve thought Noel might be over-influenced sometimes?

      Any other obvious tune-grabs?

    • #75260
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Get it on (bang a gong) T-rex same intro as Cigerettes and alcohol by Oasis.

      Oasis same as Beatles.

    • #75276
      Michael
      Participant

      Well as per the other thread.

      Opening only of Asia’s Heat of the Moment and The Buggles Video Killed The Radio Star

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