TexasToest: Lmbo! No its nothing special, I just need someone to show me the ropes as I am kinda tone deaf lmbo!
I found the line up to last Monday night. It is not a video but does say who was there.
http://www.manchesterpride.com/whatson/bigweekend/mainstage/monday

Tuesday:  Maybe Elvis didn't play the tamborine, but we can have anything we want to use to make music.  Triangle would be nice.  A triangle interlude might be a spiritual thing. Diversity is part of the nature of creativity.

Mousetrap:  Hahaha!  When I first read your post, I thought you said you find "gospel" on YouTube.  Was I ever surprised!!!  Strong band, though.  The singer seems quite dynamic.  Do you have to do a certain kind of dance to their music?

Jim Dandy:  I think Japan skipped Texas....who's surprised?  But, they haven't done anything since 1982, or so I read.  Before that, they were pretty actively engaged in promoting themselves.  It's always a shame when bands like that quit before they really hit.

I still wonder why they never made it as more than a cult band.

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

TexasToest: I manage to find The Gossip on utube.
They were playing this tune in all the gay night clubs and someone taught me to dance to it lmbo!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VmjEyV2tNQ

Jim Dandy:  Wow!  What an opener!!  You must have really had a great time.  Tell me, where were you standing there in the audience?  I didn't see you.  Well, I wouldn't have recognized you anyway.  You're bushed?  I thought the only place people were Bushed was the U.S.  - please 'scuse me.  The Tom Robinson vid was upbeat.  It's nice when people can be themselves, and be proud of who they are.  In this country, especially down here in redneck land, a lot of people feel like they have to hide.  Heck, I hide, and I'm not anything but a boring professional.

Tuesday:  OK!  Maybe we should buy the tent?  Oh, and some tamborines?

Mousetrap:  Welcome back!!  You'll have to tell us more about the entertainment at this event.

Mousetrap: Sorry,not up on either of them mouse.A real gem just came to mind though,Tom Robinson was an old favorite of mine back in the new wave punk days.I hope you and others enjoy this song he wrote and recorded,it became an antham of sorts for many gay kids back in the day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lR3ffBsMTc&mode=related&search=

Anyway as just one or maybe two or three people know I went to Gay pride last weekend in Manchester. One band from NY was called Gossip who,s lead singer is lesbian. I never heard of them but maybe Jim will know about them?
The first night I was there there was no interpreter but the next two nights there were. Gareth Gates was there but he needed winding up. I posted a video of him singing Spirit in the sky a while back. He did not get a good reception. Someone called Angi was there too and she was way pregnant and appeared just for pride. Everyone loved her.
Then there was another star who sang "Whole again"
I am not sure if she was from Atomic Kitten or it could be Destiny Child.
Anyway I had a fantastic time and the rave was free.

coan.net: They were entertaining,good ole r n r,no deep meaning.There was a point I thought had the potential to be very special musically.CC Deville began playing an instrumental version of Georgia accompanied only by the keyboardist.I was just settling in to enjoy it when he all the sudden ended it with some crazy speed guitar,maybe he didn't trust the audience enough to play it to completion,oh well.

I didn't mind Damn Yankees,a bit of a super group.I had thought they played You can still rock in America,I guess they kinda did,Jack Blades was in both Night Ranger and DY,and they covered it,good song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQFTqZscWsU

Tuesday: Hey us mice are not the problem its the humans who are the problem

Hiya Folks! Remember me? lmbo!
Have,nt forgot abot this board. Just not known much about the American bands being posted lately and also I been away.
Since I got back Firefox has been playing up and I canna play the videos properly even on utube
Nice to see all the posts on here though!

TexasToest: It was fun,somebody already has the opening song on utube,I'm bushed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQWyQo3rqaM

Tuesday:  Well, come on, sister.  Let's get this thing started!  I have
some friends that could fill out a choir.  Excellent singers. 



Jim Dandy:  I wish I'd known Brighton Rock.  I like them too.  Like you, I really didn't get off on the "hair bands" as you call them.  Maybe that was when I was beginning to grow up.  Hope you had fun at the concert last night. 

Jim Dandy: I was all set to go to a Poison concert many many years ago - but a few weeks before the concert, it was canceled (think it was when they broke up) - It was going to be at the Illinois State Fair. (mid 90's) - so instead went to the Damn Yankee's concert that was on a different night - which meant I had to switch from the cheap costing hotel to another one that had rooms that was about 4 times as much.... which in turn made the whole experiance a not very good one.

Poison is one of the bands I would like to see... since I missed my chance back then.

Tuesday: adios,I'm a ghost......later

I have laid out my wardrobe.A Nashville Pussy t-shirt and ratty jeans(Ratt is opening)The transformation isn't complete without imersing myself in the gendre.Here is a song from the 80's hair band era,one of a handful that I actually enjoyed.They were a Canadian band now residing in the "where are they now" file.One of those numerous power ballads of 80's rock

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz6nGNc-t6A&mode=related&search=

Jim Dandy:  I'd never heard them.  Surely they'll be around here sometime, maybe I can get a chance to see them.  The combination of accoustic and electric guitars together makes a really full sound.  Pink Floyd used that combination really well.  Dogs comes to mind.


Past my bedtime here.  I think I'd better hang my clothes to dry, and slumber.  Have fun y'all.  Hope to see you in the morrow.

TexasToest: You're right,I should know by refrencing that ole Carter Family song "daddy sang bass,mamma sang tenor..." lol.I had the wrong term but the right idea.Someone on another board has swung my thoughts towards a band we have discussed here before,Tesla.Very few songs give me a lump,this one does

Jim Dandy:  That was a great piece with Elvis.  But, I think J.D. Sumner was singing bass.  And, did he ever sing it!

I do love gospel music.  There isn't enough of it these days.  Maybe we should organize a troop and start traveling around the country doing tent revivals that are only music.  Now, that would be  FUN , singing gospel with a bunch of friends.

Tuesday: They give me chills.J.D. Sumner has one of the best baritones I've ever heard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0WD7iprRyI

I've never listened much to Kd Rock, guess he just never made my
radar....except for one thing.  He did a song with Willie Nelson on the
Great Divide album called "Last Stand In Open Country".  It is
excellent.  That was my exposure.  He's a little arrogant, but what a
band!!!!



It was my pleasure to do the Hendrix piece.  I've also been wanting to
expose everybody to Back Door Slam for a couple weeks.  Glad you
enjoyed it.  Guess I'll trade ya one Jimi Hendrix for one  Kid Rock. 

Hey, you can't miss with Townshend.  He was surely dressed up for that show.  I like that song too.  Thanks for the link, Jim Dandy.  I added it to my favorites.

TexasToest: Thanks for all those tasty links TT.I was never a Hendrix freak,but I've alwasys wanted to visit ELECTRIC LADY studios.So many great musicians and recordings were done there.

This first time I saw him open with it onstage,I thought I'd witnessed a great new performer,my opinion kinda went downhill after the first cd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZCk2C1HTw4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adQNcQl0OSU

August 26: Jimi Hendrix' Are You Experienced was released 40 years ago today.

The date appears to be uncertain in some minds. Most sources I saw online said it was released in 1967 with nary a word about a date. But, Wikipedia makes reference to this date as the original release date of a single with "Purple Haze" on side A, and "The Wind Cries Mary" on side B. Further down the page under albums, they give the release date of August 26, 1967 for the album, Are You Experienced. Since this date has been corroborated by Jon Dillon on 92.5 FM. Lone Star Radio, I'm going with it. Note that Are You Experienced was on the charts for 106 months, that's over TWO YEARS folks!!

For your information, Lone Star Radio streams over the net. I love this station, because the DJs are a bunch of people who have been in radio, mostly in Dallas, since the 60s. They are knowledgeable, and durned good folks. Their morning show with Bo, Jim and Kelly is outrageous. I drive down the freeway to work in the mornings laughing unashamedly at their antics.

They have a studio they call Full Throttle Garage where they record artists who float through this town - kind of an ad hoc thing. I heard JD (not our Jim Dandy §: ), but Jon Dillon) interview the band I'm leading up to on the radio the other day. The Seattle Times wrote of the band, "I heard the spirit of Jimi Hendrix, It was Back Door Slam from the Isle of Man". Their recording is the second play list on the Full Throttle Garage page. Before you discount it, they are NOT country. They deserve a listen. I would recommend starting with "Outside Woman Blues".

Have fun, and ask yourself today if you are experienced. "Not necessarily stoned, but....beautiful."

Jim Dandy:  And.....thanks for the Kiss.  Do you ever wonder what people who put up that kind of show do in their personal lives?  Would you ever suspect any of the members of Kiss would be Marvin Milktoast?  

The Bolin stuff has been great, guys!!  Didn't he play with the James Gang?

Jim Dandy:
that was good stuff...thanks....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2k1Vz1-rjc&mode=related&search=

Jim Dandy:  Why thank you!!  I haven't been called young in a long time.  Funny, they give me the senior discount without asking.  Should I be insulted?  Hahaha!

Hey, I have a fav Canadian band, and as a matter of fact, I'm working on this one now.  I have the lyrics down, the tune is in my heart.  If I can't feel it, I can't do it.   Bad Timing Blue Rodeo.

awesome: An undiscovered gem,what set some 70's rock apart.


Tommy Bolin sat in to play the leads on both these songs for a local bar band that fell apart on the edge of success

awesome: When you consider that we come into the world in diapers and sometimes leave in diapers,you may have a point

I have a funny story about getting the special foldout edition of electric warrior autographed by a session musician back in the early 80s who was then a dj at a strip joint in Florida,but that's a story for another time.I was a T REX nut back then.I love this tune

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry6KwZudN9s

the older I get the younger I get

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6MsmTR4M-s&mode=related&search=

TexasToest:You young and wasted kids need your sleep

Jim Dandy:  I just hate that a song like Goodbye Saigon had to be written.  I always jerks my heart strings, and wells up those tears behind my eyes....the ones that almost escape.

You guys were busy while I was gone.  Too bad I'm too wasted to stay up and enjoy some of it.  But, tomorrow is another day.  Glad y'all had fun.

gogul: Before I feast on tubular bells,I'll leave you with this my friend
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40K55oszGho

Jim Dandy: I don't know which one that is. I enjoy Yes quite much.

And King Crimson! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w0Xy_6WIY0

Mike Oldfield - Montreux 1981 - Tubular Bells part 1a
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPEt5OTR6Vc


I plug off my pc. See you all around.

gogul: Did you enjoy the album he recorded with Jon Anderson of Yes?

Vangelis - Antarctica
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w0Xy_6WIY0

gogul: I enjoyed that.The singer in an old band of mine was a huge fan of Charles Aznavour,now there's a lover

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPHr67aasas

gogul: I just listened and watched the Francis Cabrel video,what a talent.I wonder if he's influenced by Neil Young? in fact Neil should cover that song,thank you

TexasToest: Ik up the Virgin Killer cd,they banned the original cover,if you see it you'll know why.

Next to Captain Jack I feel this is maybe Billy Joel's best and most powerful recording

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDYe1K0-K1M

awesome:  No, never!  Every now and then something like this comes along that I just flat missed.  If I knew dates, I would know what was taking my attention....mid-70s...my ex (he wasn't my ex then) had a nephrectomy, and had to have a bunch of stuff re-plumbed.  I was pretty taken with taking care of him during the year between 1974 and 1975.  I missed a lot of things.