RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted November 9, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 9, 2021 54 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said: about my own playlists All that is going through my brain at the moment is “Happy Birthday” after seeing/hearing the “Hey Duggie” video. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium BSW01 Posted November 9, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 9, 2021 I also have very eclectic music tastes, on my iPod which usually lives in the workshop I have most of my favourite music. Some will be familiar to most of you, but there are bound to be one or two that some of you will never have heard of. Lindisfarne Alan Hull Stealers Wheel Gerry Rafferty Joe Egan Joe Walsh Dan Fogelberg The Eagles Linda Ronstadt Crosby, Stills and Nash Poco Swing Out Sister Clannad Enya The Beatles Colosseum Pink Floyd David Gilmour Gordon Lightfoot James Taylor Kate Bush Deacon Blue Dodgy Nick Drake Mike +The Mechanics Fleetwood Mac Free Bad Company Paul Rodgers Gary Moore Heart Debussy Berlioz Tchaikovsky Khachaturian Vaughn Williams Holst I could go on, but you get the picture, it’s a real mixture. 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
simontaylor484 Posted November 9, 2021 Share Posted November 9, 2021 That sounds like the play list on my fire tablet its amusing on Random play T Rex followed by a Welsh Male voice choir followed by some durge organ music and a bit of ELO By the way Happy belated birthday to @Florence Locomotive Works Douglas 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted November 9, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 9, 2021 Having recently enjoyed ballets with music by Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev, Sherry and I spent a good half-hour last night listening to and discussing Lieutenant Kijé Suite, by Prokofiev. It was originally composed as a film score. Few classical pieces for full orchestra include parts for tenor sax. Sherry knew Greg Lake used one theme from it for a Christmas song. Sherry had her booster yesterday, has a much more stiff arm than any previous vaccination has caused. She is currently showing a new member round the theatre. If our luck finally holds, we may manage a run of performances next week. I am FOH manager next Monday. 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted November 9, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted November 9, 2021 6 minutes ago, Oldddudders said: She is currently showing a new member round the theatre. I'm sure that used to be Samantha's job. 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbishop Posted November 9, 2021 Share Posted November 9, 2021 Music:- Bruckner Beethoven Bruckner Brahms Bruckner Elgar Bruckner Mahler Bruckner Sibelius Bruckner and sometimes Abba, Beatles, Kinks, Pink Floyd, Procul Harum, Simon & Garfunkel - but mainly Bruckner. Bill 7 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted November 9, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 9, 2021 40 minutes ago, bbishop said: but mainly Bruckner. Sort of wins by duration, compared to most of the others in your list! Gunter Wand, I hope. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted November 9, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted November 9, 2021 Greig Wagner Rachmaninov 1 1 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted November 9, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 9, 2021 1 hour ago, Happy Hippo said: I'm sure that used to be Samantha's job. Samantha, ISTR, is/was just as fictional as Lt Kijé, who was a sort of invented officer adopted by the foppy Czar. Ridiculing Czarist foibles was good news post-1917, no doubt. 3 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted November 9, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 9, 2021 Another singing dog. 2 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iL Dottore Posted November 9, 2021 Share Posted November 9, 2021 A belated happy birthday @Florence Locomotive Works (I just vaguely remember that age. IIRC it was when all my hormones were carbonating...). It sounds like you had a splendid day, young man. It's a pity that the Yanks and the Brits get so bent out of shape about so-called "underage" drinking. In most of Continental Europe a birthday toast to our young man would be offered (usually, but not always, a glass of wine) and the Birthday Boy would be expected to partake as well! It is claimed that by introducing alcohol to children in modest amounts and not making a big deal of it, it becomes just another foodstuff. And as the children become young adults they will avoid the whole "let's go out and get rat-ar$ed" number (introduction in an appropriate manner, obviously. Certainly not asking a 7 year old to neck a bottle of Thunderbird in one). Certainly, binge drinking is almost unknown in France, Italy and Spain. 7 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iL Dottore Posted November 9, 2021 Share Posted November 9, 2021 (edited) 2 hours ago, BSW01 said: I also have very eclectic music tastes, on my iPod which usually lives in the workshop I have most of my favourite music. Some will be familiar to most of you, but there are bound to be one or two that some of you will never have heard of. Lindisfarne Alan Hull Stealers Wheel Gerry Rafferty Joe Egan Joe Walsh Dan Fogelberg The Eagles Linda Ronstadt Crosby, Stills and Nash Poco Swing Out Sister Clannad Enya The Beatles Colosseum Pink Floyd David Gilmour Gordon Lightfoot James Taylor Kate Bush Deacon Blue Dodgy Nick Drake Mike +The Mechanics Fleetwood Mac Free Bad Company Paul Rodgers Gary Moore Heart Debussy Berlioz Tchaikovsky Khachaturian Vaughn Williams Holst I could go on, but you get the picture, it’s a real mixture. one or two that some of you will never have heard of. Alan Hull - who he? Joe Egan - who he? Dodgy - who he? Three out of 37 unknown to me ain't bad going. Have you heard of... Perigeo? Premiata Forneria Marconi? Gentle Giant? Jean Luc Ponty? Giorgio Gaslini? Tom Waits? Paolo Conte? (and here's one from the last on the list) And something from Tom Waits! Edited November 9, 2021 by iL Dottore 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbishop Posted November 9, 2021 Share Posted November 9, 2021 1 hour ago, Compound2632 said: Sort of wins by duration, compared to most of the others in your list! Gunter Wand, I hope. later, I began with Haitink and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Bill 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbishop Posted November 9, 2021 Share Posted November 9, 2021 22 minutes ago, iL Dottore said: A belated happy birthday @Florence Locomotive Works (I just vaguely remember that age. IIRC it was when all my hormones were carbonating...). It sounds like you had a splendid day, young man. It's a pity that the Yanks and the Brits get so bent out of shape about so-called "underage" drinking. In most of Continental Europe a birthday toast to our young man would be offered (usually, but not always, a glass of wine) and the Birthday Boy would be expected to partake as well! It is claimed that by introducing alcohol to children in modest amounts and not making a big deal of it, it becomes just another foodstuff. And as the children become young adults they will avoid the whole "let's go out and get rat-ar$ed" number (introduction in an appropriate manner, obviously. Certainly not asking a 7 year old to neck a bottle of Thunderbird in one). Certainly, binge drinking is almost unknown in France, Italy and Spain. Once my sister and I were of an age to be left outside a pub, perhaps eight and five, I would get a half of shandy and my sister a lemonade. Then on Sunday lunchtime, I would be sent to the "offy" with the previous week's empty * and half a crown to purchase a quart of cider - I could choose the variety - which would be divided pint, half, third, sixth. A sensible introduction to alcohol. Bill * the time when there was sixpence back on a bottle. 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted November 9, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted November 9, 2021 39 minutes ago, iL Dottore said: Have you heard of... Jean Luc Ponty? He's the bloke that opened a Bistro in Abercynon 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted November 9, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 9, 2021 Just now, Happy Hippo said: He's the bloke that opened a Bistro in Abercynon Met SWMBO in the Bistro nightclub in Rhyl. 5 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium BSW01 Posted November 9, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 9, 2021 (edited) 4 hours ago, iL Dottore said: one or two that some of you will never have heard of. Alan Hull - who he? Joe Egan - who he? Dodgy - who he? Three out of 37 unknown to me ain't bad going. Have you heard of... Perigeo? Premiata Forneria Marconi? Gentle Giant? Jean Luc Ponty? Giorgio Gaslini? Tom Waits? Paolo Conte? (and here's one from the last on the list) And something from Tom Waits! You're among less than a handful of people that I know who've actually heard of Dan Fogelberg, so I'm pleasantly surprised. Alan Hull, lead singer and song writer of Lindisfarne. Joe Egan, Gerry Rafferty's former partner from Stealers Wheel. Dodgy, are a 3 piece group from Hounslow, they had a few hits the 90s, Staying out for the summer Good enough In a room, are a few. I've heard of Gentle Giant Premiata Forneria Marconi Tom Waits But not the rest. Edited November 9, 2021 by BSW01 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted November 9, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 9, 2021 Ah cannit beleeve iD's nevva herd of Alan Hull. Whey man, yu knaa nowt! All together now, 'The Fog on the Tyne's all mine all mine.....' 3 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted November 9, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 9, 2021 1 hour ago, iL Dottore said: Have you heard of... Jean Luc Ponty? Have you heard this version? 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted November 9, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 9, 2021 There's a scratch on his record..... 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dave Hunt Posted November 9, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 9, 2021 2 hours ago, iL Dottore said: .......by introducing alcohol to children in modest amounts and not making a big deal of it, it becomes just another foodstuff. And as the children become young adults they will avoid the whole "let's go out and get rat-ar$ed........ We allowed both our sons to drink wine and shandy in small amounts when we went out to lunch or to parties from the age of about ten. It certainly seemed to get them used to the idea that alcohol wasn’t simply meant to get you bladdered and apart from a few occasions I don’t think they’ve made a habit of it. Both of them can take it or leave it as far as booze is concerned. Dave 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florence Locomotive Works Posted November 9, 2021 Share Posted November 9, 2021 A question for you all. I have acquired enough money now to easily purchase a proper live steam loco, in the form of a new Accucraft Ruby. Do we think that would be a good idea? 8 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted November 9, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 9, 2021 18 minutes ago, Florence Locomotive Works said: A question for you all. I have acquired enough money now to easily purchase a proper live steam loco, in the form of a new Accucraft Ruby. Do we think that would be a good idea? Go for it! 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium zarniwhoop Posted November 9, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 9, 2021 Even you guys with eclectic tastes seem to have a limited range. I don't have playlists, except for whatever earworms are currently operative when I'm lying in bed, but throughout the year I'll play different things. Much of the time centered on blues rock, but often interspersed with small-scale baroque on period instruments. But now we are heading into winter, for me that is the season for orchestral - Beethoven and Sibelius are probably the main composers of that genre in my music library, but I like many others. And on special days, bagpipes. Of course I have lots of other things - country blues, zydeco, a little jazz (most of it I don't really understand), prog rock, a bit of pub rock and punk, some celtic music, a minimal amount of other folk music and early music, a little reggae. Oh, and organ music and some harpsichord. However, I have very little from bands which were new in the 1980s or later, not a lot of soul, very little vocal music. So I consider my musical tastes to be quite limited! 6 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium polybear Posted November 9, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 9, 2021 34 minutes ago, Florence Locomotive Works said: A question for you all. I have acquired enough money now to easily purchase a proper live steam loco, in the form of a new Accucraft Ruby. Do we think that would be a good idea? I would - though this Bear's money would be on one of the UK outline prototypes, rather than the freelance Ruby (but everyone's taste is different). If that meant saving for a bit longer then I'd do it... HTH 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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