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Post by anabdab on Feb 29, 2008 21:40:36 GMT
Back to cover versions, what about The Psycopaths reworking of the Frank Ifield classic, "I`ll dismember you"?
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Marcus
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Post by Marcus on Feb 29, 2008 21:41:06 GMT
"Any other Southend Punk related stories about crap food?"
Not really, so I ought to stop here. However.........the irish stew in the Tavern In The Town (the TITT) fuelled many a Thursday night in Scamps. I can't remember how crap it was, but, on balance, I'm pretty sure that it wouldn't trouble the Masterchef judges.
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Post by Micvicdab on Mar 2, 2008 3:50:35 GMT
A very salient point Marcus, and made with your customary aplomb, you are not the fool that people take you for. Do you remember the cafe down Queens rd, almost opposite the Aristocrat public house, where the cream of the Southend punk rockers would hang out after the ritual saturday lunchtime binge?. We used, in our whimsical way, call it the OK tea rooms, but that wasnt its real name.
Can anyone remember what its proper handle was, they did a ferocious mixed grill, if memory serves?............
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Post by Micvicdab on Mar 2, 2008 4:24:36 GMT
I think there used to be a bird that worked there with an apron on.
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Post by purplenasty77 on Mar 2, 2008 16:37:54 GMT
the royal cafe ?
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Post by Micvicdab on Mar 2, 2008 17:43:15 GMT
Yes, thats it, give that man a cigar or coconut, according to choice.
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Post by Billyb on Mar 2, 2008 20:09:58 GMT
The Royal Cafe has got its own (theme?) thread- it's currently back on page 3 of The Southend Punk Main Forum...
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Post by Micvicdab on Mar 7, 2008 21:56:58 GMT
Intruiging stuff from Marcus there, and he has made a strong point with the "What if stuff that we take for granted now, but was completely unknown to back then" line of thought. If we had had PCs back then, would we have just sat here typing about how great Status Quo were, rather than forming our own bands? I mean to say, and that,...If we'd had i.pods with 10,000 tracks on, and access to all the latest games like "Alex Kidd in miracle world" and "Pacman", would we have even bothered to learn guitar or drums, or owt like that..........probarbly not... And then there wouldnt any need for a "Southend punk" forum, so all of history would have been different, and that.
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Post by tonyvan on Mar 8, 2008 1:53:29 GMT
Not music-related, but noodle-related...my kids eat dehydrated noodles 'raw' (=still dehydrated).
Now, I thought that maybe I'd just spawned some kind of weird kids who should really be in a home or workhouse; but my wife informs me (and has showed me the ghastly packets) that these noodles are in fact specifically packaged as 'snack noodles' to be eaten in their dry and disgusting state.
Re Eminem and his Chas & Dave back-story, we all know that all Hip Hop music was based upon Cool Herc's pre-sampling mixing of the Shadows' 'Telstar', so I'm not surprised really. Maybe Rick Ross is a closet Paper Lace fan.
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filf
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Post by filf on Mar 8, 2008 5:46:52 GMT
I bet none of you knew that anabdab is currently involved in a witness relocation program at my local drinkin establishment. It was the white snakeskin cowboy boots that blew his cover. Does anyone know what he is hiding from?
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Post by Micvicdab on Mar 8, 2008 10:17:40 GMT
I couldnt get online mesen for 2 days, perhaps hes having problems. Wasnt "Telstar" The Tornadoe's, not the Shads?
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Post by anabdab on Mar 8, 2008 19:12:07 GMT
Curses! I should have known the boots would give me away. I left the leopard skin jacket at home coz I didn`t want to be spotted.
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Post by tonyvan on Mar 10, 2008 14:58:41 GMT
Yes - Telstar was done by the Tornadoes, and The Ventures. I think it was a pretty standard surf tune of the time. And I'm guessing that Kool Herc probably used The Ventures version, and the word about it being the Shadows was likely put around by a Hank Marvin desperate for some media attention...
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Post by tonyvan on Mar 10, 2008 14:59:29 GMT
Oh, and PS re the cover versions, wan;t it The Lurkers who covered 'Then I kissed her', updating it to 'Then I kicked her' ?
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Post by Micvicdab on Mar 10, 2008 16:37:22 GMT
Yes, Telstar has been covered by all and sundry, including The Shads in 1981, but the original was the Tornado's, written, recorded and produced by the legendary nutter Joe Meek in his flat above a shop in Holloway rd nth London. This was the first record by an English group to top the US charts, pre-empting the Fabs by over a year, was also number one in this country for several weeks, and was the theme tune at Rayleigh speedway during my tenure there as a junior "Rocket",1969-1972. As for cover versions, The Damned did Ballroom Blitz when The Vicars supported them at Crocs, But changed it to "Great big tits".
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