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The one with Spock?
Yeah...pity it wasn't one of their own compositions.
I've been playing some of my Bangles vinyl (see - if they were THE Bangles - you'd drop it there anyway, and not say my The Bangles records...) and ripping all the rare, unreleased,and live 'b' sides and album tracks to the PC....a nice remix of If She Knew What She Wants was scratched goddam it.....and rediscovered Live For Life - a charity album that also has a live version of Ages Of You by R.E.M on it amongst others.
I always meant to get that record for the REM track, but never got around to it. And, yeah, the one with Spock. It's the only video I know in which a Californian girl band sings about unemployment in the North West of England whilst being chauffeur driven by a Vulcan.  Jules |
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« Reply #21 on: June 12, 2014, 08:39:45 PM » |
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There were a few bands in the late 60s who began as "The..." but dropped the definite article early on: The Pink Floyd. The Slade.
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« Reply #22 on: June 12, 2014, 08:42:18 PM » |
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There were a few bands in the late 60s who began as "The..." but dropped the definite article early on: The Pink Floyd. The Slade.
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« Reply #23 on: June 12, 2014, 09:13:06 PM » |
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There were a few bands in the late 60s who began as "The..." but dropped the definite article early on: The Pink Floyd. The Slade.
Slade were Ambrose Slade, no? Jules The N Betweens. Then Ambrose Slade. Then The Slade. Then Slade. http://hitparade.ch/song/Slade/Wild-Winds-Are-Blowing-157694 |
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« Reply #24 on: June 12, 2014, 09:34:13 PM » |
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To be fair "The Slade" was only ever used on one single and like "The Fairport" it was unlikely to have been a band decision
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« Reply #25 on: June 12, 2014, 10:38:48 PM » |
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Who can ever forget Van Morrison and The Them.
Conversely, "Guess Who?" morphed into "The Guess Who" after much confusion and gnashing of teeth.
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« Reply #26 on: June 13, 2014, 03:05:47 PM » |
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« Reply #27 on: June 13, 2014, 09:19:47 PM » |
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Misuse of the definitive article has been rampant in popular music. It is even open to the sarcasm, yes they were a little know band from Bolton.
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« Reply #28 on: June 13, 2014, 10:38:03 PM » |
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I thought he is properly called Van The Man! |
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« Reply #29 on: June 13, 2014, 11:28:25 PM » |
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I thought he is properly called Van The Man! Van The Man.  Jules |
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« Reply #30 on: June 14, 2014, 11:28:50 AM » |
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The Strawbs? Weren't they once The-less? I ought to know, having all of their stuff. This is getting worse.  |
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« Reply #31 on: July 16, 2014, 04:28:31 PM » |
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Gig posters referred for quite a while to 'The...'
Just reading Beverley Martyn's autobiography, Sweet Honesty. Reproduced in there is a flyer for a 'Christmas Festival' at The Roundhouse in 1967. Saturday 23 December promised Beverley alongside 'The Fairport Convention' and 'compered by Jimi Hendrix' (!) |
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« Reply #32 on: July 16, 2014, 06:16:34 PM » |
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Reproduced in there is a flyer for a 'Christmas Festival' at The Roundhouse in 1967. Saturday 23 December promised Beverley alongside 'The Fairport Convention' and 'compered by Jimi Hendrix' (!)
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« Reply #33 on: July 16, 2014, 08:16:59 PM » |
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Reproduced in there is a flyer for a 'Christmas Festival' at The Roundhouse in 1967. Saturday 23 December promised Beverley alongside 'The Fairport Convention' and 'compered by Jimi Hendrix' (!)
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« Reply #34 on: July 21, 2014, 09:05:36 PM » |
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Was Hendrix not Mr Experience's middle name?
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« Reply #35 on: July 21, 2014, 09:55:01 PM » |
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Was Hendrix not Mr Experience's middle name?
It was the second of his two middle names, the first of them being Jimi. His first name was The. Jules |
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« Reply #36 on: July 22, 2014, 09:48:48 AM » |
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In a BBC World Service interview from 1972, Sandy Denny says "I like The Deserter, on Liege and Lief. That's a beautiful tune...I just like the way we did it. I think it's the best track on that album. That was with The Fairport Convention".
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