And yet, “Jukebox Hero” has to be the secret theme song of all us guitarists, doesn’t it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5_qhnWByA4

[quote=”1bassleft”]That was the song. Inoffensive enough number, not the most interesting but one rarely gets arms popped around the neck when – f’r’instance – Smack My Bitch Up starts playing.[/quote]

I got an arm round my neck during ‘Smack my bitch up’. I was in a circle pit at the time tho…

Funnelly nuff, I can snout Mullard EL84s for even less than you pay for sex, Lee. I don’t need them matched as the cathode-biasing takes care of that. However, your Alfie has a stock of nice old valves? I’d even snog Pamela Anderson to get my eyes and hands on them…

1bassleft would beup for a smooch to the entire foreigner catalogue if there was the promise of a matched set of NOS EL84 Mullards, and access to the private valve stock of Alfie, our local TV/Amp/Radio repairman. 😆

When I did my series of Dirty Dancing hits, including I’ve had the time of life, I found the women just couldn’t resist. It’s the whole Patrick Swayze angle.

That was the song. Inoffensive enough number, not the most interesting but one rarely gets arms popped around the neck when – f’r’instance – Smack My Bitch Up starts playing.

😆 don’t knock Kershaw. Stacey had “Wouldn’t It Be Good” on on 8 hour loop one day at work. Well, close to it.

Boston’s “More than a Feeling” at least sported some decent vocal harmonies (but that’s about it as far as praising them goes) and I don’t really mind Supertramp, because anyone who makes a career out of playing a fast version of “Chopsticks” on a Rhodes piano has got to be admired.

“Rosanna”, though… I really would rather be pulled off by the aptly-named Dik Mik than gyrate pelvi to that one. And how can you possibly get the horn to that ghastly Foreigner track? Or Pamela Anderson, for that matter. Before I sound too pious, though, I did allow myself to stay through a Nik Kershaw song once. That could go on one of those sickly, “Love is…” cartoons.

A couple of the Kursaals come from Canvey Island, Canvey also spawned The Feelgood’s and i think a few of Eddie and the Hot Rods, lot of creativity in the air on Canvey, they call it the Canvey Delta round here.
Are we all wearing rose tinted specs or were there a hell of a lot of great bands around in 1978/79 ??
The great thing about Stiff was nothing was over-produced, those records were a million miles from Boston/Chicago/Toto, and they have stood the test of time.

[quote=”lee_UK”]Anyone see BBC4 channel the other night? all about ‘Stiff’ records?
i didn’t know Stiff released an LP called ‘The wit and wisdom of Ronald Reagan’ and it was an LP of silence, nothing on it, and it cost the same as a standard LP too. 😆
They were the days. you would never get away with it now. :lol:[/quote]

I remember the “Wit and Wisdom of Ronal Reagan” record. I didn’t think it cost the same as a regular album though. I could be wrong…

Yeah, the Stiff Nights on BBC4 were quite entertaining, although they did paint a rather rose-tinted picture. The only person they showed making any negative comments was good old Wreckless Eric. I’ve heard his Stiff rants before – he has quite an acerbic wit.

They needed to show MORE Wreckless Eric, MORE of The Damned (the one clip they showed in its entirety was from their Chiswick Records days!), MORE Devo, and LESS Elvis bloody Costello and The Pogues. What the hell was the deal with The Pogues? Bloody diddley-diddley-dee music. It just leaves me cold. If I want to hear that dirge I could walk into an Irish theme pub. Which I don’t.

The Kursaal Flyers! Blimey! I thought they were quite good actually. All I knew of them before was that “Little does she know / That I know / That she knows…” record. The narrative of the song took place in a launderette, as I recall.

lol…

THE MAN HAS PRINCIPLES

We know the only thing Hawkwind are capable of pulling off. 😆

Does that go for ‘Boston’ too bass? and ‘Supertramp’ ?
‘I said no to Pamela Anderson cos she asked me to dance while ‘Lady in red’ was playing’.
i wouldn’t care what was playing!

Anyone see BBC4 channel the other night? all about ‘Stiff’ records?
i didn’t know Stiff released an LP called ‘The wit and wisdom of Ronald Reagan’ and it was an LP of silence, nothing on it, and it cost the same as a standard LP too. 😆
They were the days. you would never get away with it now. 😆

lol

No sexual relations because it was Foreigner? You’ve PULLED a new low.

Oh I agree with REO, but Toto no way. You could write a thesis on why Rosanna is one of the most complex songs ever written about a female. Let’s see Hawkwind pull that off eh?

😯 You didn’t dance with her because you didn’t like the song?
Seriously?

A girl I actually liked made a move for me when “IWKWLI” spattered out of the nightclub speakers. One of the few times as a single bloke that I let my principles get in the way of naked gymnastics. I absolutely cannot bear that AOR Toto/Foreigner/REO Shitewagon rubbish. Even Cold as Ice has that ghastly, overprocessed guitar sound that leaves me, er, cold.

Just to add, Cold as Ice was one of my favourite songs as a youngin. Yet I don’t think I’ve ever listened to a full Foreigner album.

I was only blurting out I want to what love is the other day. It’s one of those songs that really highlights the worst qualities of my voice.

1.big hair
2.spandex
3.always wanting to know what love is.

Didnt really like them much.