Today I've been relaxing by playing music I listened to in the past (my youth!)
Here's one such song (Supertramp: Logical Song) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ukKQw578Lm8
Do reply with a song you liked listening to... we can turn this thread into a virtual jukebox!
Today I have mostly been listening to Clara Rockmore. <3
To celebrate the fortieth ,of 'Rubber Soul' by the Beatles, the Mike Harding Folk programme asked several well known folk artists to recreate the album as 'Rubber Folk' This had such artists as Waterson-Carthy, Ralph McTell, and Show of Hands, as well as this track which I feel is outstanding and puts a whole different feeling to the original, which I always thought was a very mediocre track by the Beatles,
So from 'Rubber Folk' is this track, 'Wait' by Cara Dillon and Seth Lakeman
In my experience arts venues are a pretty good place to hang out as an autistic person; I find that creative people are often more accepting of my differences, and there's usually a good chance of finding one or two other people who at least think in a slightly unconventional way, even if they're not autistic themselves - there's only one letter difference between autistic and artistic!
We had a nice little community art gallery in the village that I used to live in, which was always interesting, as the artists were often around to talk to, and the picture gallery itself was always a low-stimulation environment (I still avoided opening nights, though!)
This has encouraged me to be slightly more adventurous and to try and seek out the quirky venues I frequented in my youth.
For a brief while, when I worked at a cinema, I was part of an interesting sub-culture where I felt more at home.
BTW: I only noticed on listening back to the whole thing that I do feature rather prominently on the recording. The song "dope and beer" (about 30 minutes in) is me singing (if you define singing loosely enough!) It's the only one not written by the LCAP lead singer, and was the first ever song that me and the mate who posted the video wrote, on the walk to our first ever band practice for the first band that we formed.
I'm really glad you enjoyed it; I was a little nervous about posting something so self-indulgent!
you were so lucky being in in all of that
Yes, I was. Despite the autistic social problems that led me to give it all up, there were some wonderful times and wonderful people. I struggled a lot with the travelling, crowds, and enforced closeness to people of gigging, but there was a camaraderie that I do miss; the bands from which LCAP members were drawn often played or toured together, and we always helped each other out through hard times to make it all possible.
you never actually over did it to just be crazy
We wouldn't have got away with it! The DIY punk scene was strange like that, I was always amazed at how many punk gigs ended with a cheesy disco and everyone dancing like crazy to Abba. The biggest gig we ever played was in France (the drummer of LCAP is French), where most folks couldn't understand the words even if they were able to hear them on the crappy PA. When we came on in the early hours of the morning, all these spiky-haired punks threw off their studded leather jackets to reveal their spangly, sequinned disco gear underneath!
Hey were you the one with very long hair and facial fluff?
Yup, that was me! I'm not so different now, aside from being a lot more grey. Even when I was on the punk scene, I could never get my head around the whole fashion thing. I always thought it was odd that a scene who prided themselves on their free-thinking all dressed the same. The final band I was in was just me, looking like that, and a drummer who was a skinhead (old-school, from before the National Front infiltrated and messed everything up). We played a couple of gigs where everyone left the room just because we didn't "look like" punks. If anyone accused me of being a hippy, I used to point out that Johnny Rotten always said his favourite band was Can!
Thankyou on behalf of LCAP!
The lead singer was an amazing guy, his way with words is incredible, and he could churn them out at a ridiculous rate. He's also a fantastic magician, in the Tommy Cooper "pretend it's all gone wrong" kind of style; he used to get plenty of free beers that way when his giro had run out. I hadn't seen him for nearly 20 years when we got together for the re-union gig, and when we were catching up and I mentioned my autism diagnosis, it turned out that he now works in a special needs school helping autistic teenagers! I can well imagine that he's brilliant at it, he's one of those people that can befriend absolutely anyone, and generous to a fault.
We need more of this sort of thing right now!
Yes. I think it is still out there, but most of the small venues that used to put on cheap punk gigs just aren't there any more, and there's such a flood of dross on the internet these days that the gems are very hard to find unless you stumble across them by accident (or on this thread!)
Hey were you the one with very long hair and facial fluff? I had very long hair too back then plus a little goatee which wouldn’t grow any longer, I was a hippie type, then later a biker type.
although you were all taking the Micky out of current songs, you never actually over did it to just be crazy, it was controlled, some punk group wannabes just ranted or shouted loud, no structure what so ever, you all actually kept it real.
Absolutely brilliant, awesome, so true of the times, real words, real sentiment, poetic, wow!
Really did enjoy the music as well, the voices just worked, you were so lucky being in in all of that, my hat off to you all. I am overwhelmed seriously.
all three saved to my favourites, thank you.
Really enjoyed looking and listening. So many clever, funny and hard-hitting lyrics about stuff happening back then. We need more of this sort of thing right now!
A very self-indulgent one next. I was chatting to an old band-mate the other day and I mentioned how none of the music we'd ever made was on-line anywhere. He corrected me, telling me that he'd digitised an old cassette and put it on YouTube (thanks Fluffy)!
Love, Chips and Peace (LCAP) was the nearest thing that Bradford's 1 in 12 Club had to a "supergroup". All of us were in "serious" punk bands, but the lead singer had an amazing way with comedy lyrics set to the tunes of cheesy disco songs, so collected together whoever he could to put together the silliest band we could possibly manage. I played bass for them for a couple of years, and also a couple of years ago when we reformed for a friend's birthday party. My first gig with them happened when the original bass player couldn't make a gig in London - I learned the entire set sat in the back of the van on the drive down the M1 to London, which for LCAP was considered a rather luxurious amount of practice. Despite being as sloppy as possible being one of the guiding principles of LCAP, it was, of course, by far the most popular of any of the bands any of us were in!
Unfortunately the whole tape is one long video, and the quality is terrible, so don't feel as if you have to listen to all (or any) of it! I don't think I'm on much of this recording, as it was mostly made before I joined the band permanently, however if you jump to around 22:20, there's a delightful picture of me and my DIY customised bass at that very first gig that I played with them (in a squatted pub called the Grievous Bodily Arms!) There are photos of the lyric sheets if anyone fancies singing along!...
Oh yes, I thoroughly enjoyed those, thankyou for the introduction! The first is as acid as any agit-prop punk, and with such clever metaphors; "making omelettes with lives" particularly made me grin. And I love the way that, in the second one, the musical form expressed the ideas of the lyrics, with the little pause before the word "delay", and the singing in rounds echoing the confusion of a dozen thoughts all going on at once when procrastinating. I shall definitely keep an eye out for some of their other work.
I have liked an Acappella trio called Artisan (from God's Own County Yorkshire, not far from Holmfirth where Last of the Summer Wine was filmed) since their earliest days. When I was chairman of my children's school Parents' Association I invited them to perform their Christmas Show. Now disbanded although they have occasionally reformed, they have left a legacy of some very fine albums, such as Searching for Yorladale and Rocking at the end of Time.
I wanted to put track called Sir Hubert Vayne on the Jukebox but it does not appear to be on You Tube (from the album Rocking at the End of Time), so I will put two other tracks for the Jukebox.
The first is''A Posy made of dreams". I do not think the tune is one of their best, but the lyrics are absolutely biting!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eklXQtMHISw
And the second sounds and feels like my mind often does:
Oh yes indeedy. Here was one I liked, that no doubt annoyed my parents to no end, though I did not really know what it was about: https://youtu.be/KdOCWUgwiWs
Part of the Union, the Strawbs.I Ibought Alice Cooper"s School's Out too at about the same time.
Interesting question - 'overshadowed' doesn't come close to describing it! I wonder if he was older or younger... (off to look this up now!)
Do you remember this one too?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aO5GWJJP3FM
Mouldy Old Dough - Lieutenant Pigeon
Some songs by The Scaffold really appealed to me as a child.
I'm putting on 'Thank You Very Much' because I'm grateful to be part of this forum.
It also means I can post a fascinating discussion about the 'Aintree Iron' which Mike McCartney joins in with:
www.theguardian.com/.../0,5753,-1840,00.html
