Les Paul Jr
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They also never seem to watch Britain's most popular soap on TV - or any TV at all, come to think of it! Funny that. And the accepted spelling is Corrie, not Corry, by the way
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All you Aussies,how did you travel?
Les Paul Jr replied to glen's topic in Sheffield History & Expats
I stole a loaf of bread many years ago. After that it all gets a bit hazy -
If it was on the radio and it was slow, it had to be Can We Still Be Friends. If it was an uptempo song, chances are it was I Saw The Light. Those are the only two Rundgren songs you're likely to hear on daytime radio these days.
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Help! Who sang the cover version of 'Under the Boardwalk'?
Les Paul Jr replied to CAROLINE81's topic in Entertainment Chat
Rickie Lee Jones did a version as well -
Hi Keith, I can do better than that for Led Zeppelin. I saw them at Sheffield University on November 28, 1968. It was only their 9th ever gig and they were still billed as the New Yardbirds. It was still some months before their first LP was released, so we didn't really even know the material they played. The crowd was no bigger than 150 - 200 people as I recall.
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Breaking News: Singer Gene Pitney found dead
Les Paul Jr replied to Meaks's topic in Entertainment Chat
timo, like you I used to find Pitney a little square, but look deeper and he was something of a dark horse. For example, he worked with the Stones on their first album in 1964 and played on their single Not Fade away. Some of the songs Pitney he wrote [or co-wrote] were just as popular as those he sang: the Crystals with He's A Rebel, Ricky Nelson with Hello Mary Lou, Bobby Vee with Rubber Ball, Roy Orbison with Today's Teardrops etc -
Another car question: why do they skip letters on reg plates??
Les Paul Jr replied to Sony's topic in General Discussions
Aside from confusing I,O, Q and Z with numbers, there was another reason why they weren't used in mainland Britain. Z and I are reserved for use in Ireland and until 1983 Q was reserved for cars that were imported into the country temporarily, plus a few other special uses. -
Great lead guitarists - who's the Daddy?
Les Paul Jr replied to LordChaverly's topic in Entertainment Chat
Au contraire! In fact, Eddie is almost totally to blame for all the diddly, diddly **** that infected the guitar world throughout the 80s & 90s. Sure, Van Halen has talent and he introduced a totally new style of playing with Eruption, but it had a very short shelf-life and has been done to death long ago by people like Yngwie Malmsteen. Eddie Van Halen may be a supreme technician, but he has never written a single song that could stand alongside anything on the first three Hendrix albums -
Great lead guitarists - who's the Daddy?
Les Paul Jr replied to LordChaverly's topic in Entertainment Chat
Agree with you about BB and Kossoff, but Gary Moore is way too heavy-handed to be a great blues player. He's a great all-round player, but his heavy rock background shows through every time. Clapton, despite his MOR leanings, can still play some lovely blues and Peter Green, before he went over the edge, had possibly the best feel of any of the white blues players. He's rubbish these days, mind you! -
Haven't you heard of the M25?
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I admire your logic. Just because Sheffield pub band murders it, that makes it a bad song. Far from it. Voodoo Chile is a great song made even better by the great Stevie Ray Vaughan's wonderful cover version
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The New David Gilmour Album... On An Island
Les Paul Jr replied to SWFC00's topic in Entertainment Chat
Let's not get carried away here. True, the songs aren't as strong as you'd expect to find on a Floyd album, but there's plenty of that trademark Gilmour guitar on display and that alone makes it a more listenable album than 99% of other recent releases I could name -
Heres another site with more info on The Fool guitar. It claims the Gibson SG was originally owned by George Harrison back in 1964 and he had the paint job done before giving it to Eric as a gift. It's now possible to buy reproductions of the Fool guitar for between US$3,000 and $6,000 http://www.edromanguitars.com/guitar/gibson/fool_gib.htm
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Thanks for that Graham, It must have been an old magazine I was reading! (or it was longer ago than I thought)
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Hi Graham, The guitar isn't actually called The Fool, that was the name of the people who painted it. Wikapedia says: The Fool were a Dutch design collective who were influential in the psychedelic style of art in British popular music at the end of the 1960s. The colourful art draws on many fantastical and mystical themes. The name is a reference to The Fool tarot card. The original members were Dutch artists Simon Posthuma and Marijke Koger who were discovered by photographer Karl Ferris among the hippie community on the Spanish island of Ibiza in 1966. He took photographs of clothes designed by them and sent them to London where they were published in The Times and immediately caused a sensation. Ferris took the Fool back to London and together they opened a studio, with the Dutch artists producing clothes and art and Ferris pursuing photography. Barry Finch and an artist recorded only as Josie joined later. Their work includes: The colourful clothes worn by the Hollies on the cover of their 1966 album Evolution The striking cover of the Incredible String Band's classic 1967 LP The 5000 spirits or the layers of the onion The inner sleeve for The Beatles' 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band The clothes The Beatles wore for the 1967 TV broadcast of "All You Need Is Love", and also the decoration of John Lennon's Gibson J160E acoustic guitar, which appeared in the broadcast A huge 3-storey mural painted in psychedelic colours on the facade of the Beatles' Apple Boutique in London's Baker Street, which also stocked their creations. Months later, the mural was painted over by civic order, due to protests from other local businesses, before the shop failed The bodywork on John Lennon's Rolls-Royce. This outraged one old woman in central London who attacked it with her umbrella, shouting: "You swine, you swine! How dare you do this to a Rolls-Royce!" (He answered by obtaining another Rolls, and painting it flat-black) Decoration to John Lennon's piano Decoration to George Harrison's Mini car and bungalow Kinfauns (including a custom fireplace), as well as several of Harrison's guitars Decoration to Eric Clapton's legendary Gibson SG guitar and Jack Bruce's Fender VI (six-string) bass for the 1967 Cream tour of the US Set design for Joe Massot's 1968 movie Wonderwall. They also appeared in the film's party scene Paul McCartney's upright piano End Wikapedia I read an piece in one of the guitar magazines recently which said Todd still had the Clapton guitar, but it had been damaged and repaired. Interestingly, before Todd got it, Clapton gave the guitar to Jackie Lomax, a Liverpool mate of George Harrison, who recorded an album for Apple in 1968. George produced the album and Clapton played on it, so I assume that's where the guitar was handed over. How it came to be owned by Todd I have no idea. Perhaps he acquired it when he produced the Badfinger album for Apple in 1972?