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[Dave Lewis]

This brilliant concert on BBC FOUR
Grey Whistle Test

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Ian Dury and The Blockheads​

The Old Grey Whistle Test
Anne Nightingale presents a live concert special featuring Ian Dury and The Blockheads at the Dominion Theatre.

1 hour

 

[JiveTurkey]

Just realized this was 30 years old this year

 

[JiveTurkey]

 

[Los-D]

 

[norminal]

I still prefer the album version over this one. Maybe it’s his tone, I dunno. Killer song.

 

[Los-D]

I still prefer the album version over this one. Maybe it’s his tone, I dunno. Killer song.

I agree. Prefer the album tone as well (but yes, killer song!)

 

[Dave Lewis]

This brilliant album on vinyl.

 

[JiveTurkey]

 

[la szum]

Man, I love being such an old, worn-out fuck who still finds new to me music to get
super stoked about. Happened a few times in the past year and happened again
yesterday.

Maybe some of you are aware of Agra, but I had not heard them (knowingly) until
yesterday. Giving me Power Metal vibes. Dash of Helloween and Savatage. Proggy
and yet heavy. I dig it.

Oh, and was this the band Kiko Loureiro was in prior to joining Megadeth?

 

[norminal]

old, worn-out fuck

 

[Los-D]

Man, I love being such an old, worn-out fuck who still finds new to me music to get
super stoked about. Happened a few times in the past year and happened again
yesterday.

Maybe some of you are aware of Agra, but I had not heard them (knowingly) until
yesterday. Giving me Power Metal vibes. Dash of Helloween and Savatage. Proggy
and yet heavy. I dig it.

Oh, and was this the band Kiko Loureiro was in prior to joining Megadeth?

Spent a great deal of the mid to late 90s listening to Angra. Killer!

 

[Stone]

I love being such an old, worn-out fuck

Hmm, Old is a mindset IMHO, while in age maybe we is getting on, but certainly not in our mindset for music and how we interact here @ TGF
My current wife always said I had to raise 4 kids and now im stuck with you JFC

 

[la szum]

Is that her nice way of saying "Grow the F up?"

 

[la szum]

The reality is I am both.... both older and also more worn out than I have ever been in this lifetime.


Also more experienced than ever before.

I can embrace both facts simultaneously. Fortunate to have 2 hands to do so..

 

[la szum]

We are all probably somewhat "younger" than we would be if not for playing guitar.

https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-blog/2017/january/playing-an-instrument-better-for-your-brain-than-just-listening

 

[TSJMajesty]

 

[TSJMajesty]

We are all probably somewhat "younger" than we would be if not for playing guitar.


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It's a big reason I started focusing in on JP's guitar music. I know it's good for my brain.

Right now I'm working on that weird AF solo in Just Let Me Breathe, and Idk WHAT scale, if any, it's based on, so for me, it's sheer memorization. There are some patterns to the licks that do repeat, but it's still a brain teaser.

And to make it more work for my brain, I'm trying it in different places now, since my first attempt at where I want to hit all the notes, and with which fingers, just ain't workin'. So it's like I need to fry my brain some more, and memorize something different, in parts.

I can feel the new pathways being forged!

 

[Stone]

Tom your listening to Dream Theater?

 

[TSJMajesty]

Tom your listening to Dream Theater?

Other than the new album, DT gets mixed proportionately in with everything else I like.

Now, playing, yeah, that's uh, what I do 98% of.

Like, I hadn't heard that song in years. (Or maybe instead of "like", I could've said, "To whit." Is that the right usage of that ancient way of communicating?)

 

[Iron1]

Just saw these guys. Killer set.