Some sources say that Adolf Hitler is the actual vibes player on the song. Let's face it, I'm credulous as hell.
Some sources say that Adolf Hitler is the actual vibes player on the song. Let's face it, I'm credulous as hell.
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Hurtleturtled Out of Heaven - an electronic music composition, on CD and vinyl
https://michaelpdawson.bandcamp.com
http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Pr...MCD-spc-7.aspx
After I'd written this I realised that most if not all of you would only know' Music for the Head Ballet' as a tune, not a performance. I'm pleased to find an old video of them performing this on a news reel. My friends and I only had a memory of seeing them doing it on stage and so our moves weren't exactly the same
PS -I just noticed the shoes!
My favorite is still...
Cobra handling and cocaine use are a bad mix.
Steve F.
www.waysidemusic.com
www.cuneiformrecords.com
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“Remember, if it doesn't say "Cuneiform," it's not prog!” - THE Jed Levin
Any time any one speaks to me about any musical project, the one absolute given is "it will not make big money". [tip of the hat to HK]
"Death to false 'support the scene' prog!"
please add 'imo' wherever you like, to avoid offending those easily offended.
Surprised no one has mentioned their residence on the UK children's tv show Do Not Adjust Your Set - which also featured pre-Python writers and performers Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and animation by Terry Gilliam as well as David Jason and Scottish absurdist Denise Coffee. There is a dvd set of a couple of series with tons of Bonzos performances - occasionally even participating in sketches on the show. Hard to believe this was aimed at kids - it was my first experience with the Bonzos and I was instantly a fan.
There are a lot of them up on YouTube - hope this is not region blocked
The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band has been a favorite of my brother and me since we were kids.
We're trying to build a monument to show that we were here
It won't be visible through the air
And there won't be any shade to cool the monument to prove that we were here. - Gene Parsons, 1973
BDB also appear in "Magical Mystery Tour." As does Ivor Cutler.
Big fan, btw there is a 5 cd set in the Original Album Series, good and cheap way to get acquainted with their early records.(without verifying might be all their studio re ords)
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Dieter Moebius : "Art people like things they don’t understand!"
Steve F.
www.waysidemusic.com
www.cuneiformrecords.com
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“Remember, if it doesn't say "Cuneiform," it's not prog!” - THE Jed Levin
Any time any one speaks to me about any musical project, the one absolute given is "it will not make big money". [tip of the hat to HK]
"Death to false 'support the scene' prog!"
please add 'imo' wherever you like, to avoid offending those easily offended.
Still use some of the Bonzos lines in my daily conversations... Great one liners. "He was later arrested near a lamp post..." No one ever gets it, but its fun to keep it all alive... "normally I pack a rod, in pajamas I carry nothing but scars from Normandy..."
I got nothin' :
...avoiding any implication that I have ever entertained a cognizant thought.
live samples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwbCFGbAtFc
https://youtu.be/AEE5OZXJioE
https://soundcloud.com/yodelgoat/yod...om-a-live-show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUe3YhCjy6g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VOCJokzL_s
"Got a light mac?"
"No, but I have a light brown overcoat"
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-a...re-happy-hour/
Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
Which, as it happens, are both titles of tracks on Pingvinorkestern's album 'Push', so I guess they are also fans. https://pingvinorkestern.bandcamp.com/album/push
In a way they're the most British group ever: almost exactly halfway between the Beatles and Monty Python.
And while Stanshall + Innes weren't quite on the level of Lennon + McCartney as songwriters (but who was?), I'd say that at their best they equaled such peers as Ray Davies, Jagger + Richards, Roy Wood, Pete Townshend, Jeff Lynne, and the other greats of their generation. It's harder to compare them to Yes, Crimson, and the other proggers, or to folkies like Donovan; that becomes a matter of apples and oranges. As a band they had one big virtue and one big flaw: Between the six of them they not only included an embedded horn section, but could double almost any instrument; however, they were wildly uneven in terms of musicianship and didn't number among themselves all that good a drummer or guitarist.
..Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at 900 miles an hour.
It's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned,
The sun that is the source of all our power.
Now the sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see,
Are moving at a million miles a day,
In the outer spiral arm, at 40, 000 miles an hour,
Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars;
It's a hundred thousand light-years side to side;
It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light-years thick,
But out by us it's just three thousand light-years wide.
We're thirty thousand light-years from Galactic Central Point,
We go 'round every two hundred million years;
And our galaxy itself is one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
Our universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding,
In all of the directions it can whiz;
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth;
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth!
They apparently did a performance in 2015 (I didn't know about that) which included a number of early members, but not Roger Ruskin Spear. It seems to have stressed the vaudeville/music-hall side of the band, and had numerous guests in that vein, though they also played some of the later rock songs. The backing band involved members of the Rutles, a large thrown-together horn section and Elliot Randall, of all people.
Many of them are, definitely.
"Ouch!" = "Help!"
"I Must Be In Love" = "She Loves You"
"Hold My Hand" = "I Want To Hold Your Hand" + "She Loves You"
"Doubleback Alley" = "Penny Lane"
"Love Life" = "All You Need Is Love"
"Piggy In The Middle" = "I Am The Walrus"
"Nevertheless" = "Tomorrow Never Knows"
"Get Up and Go" = "Get Back"
"Let's Be Natural" = "Mother's Nature's Son"
"Major Happy's Up and Coming Once Upon A Good Time Band" = "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
"Rendezvous" = "With A Little Help From My Friends" + "Good Day Sunshine"
"We've Arrived (And To Prove It We're Here)" = "Back In The USSR" + "Flying" + "Revolution No.9"
"I Love You" = "And I Love Her"
"Joe Public" = "Tomorrow Never Knows"
"Shangri-La" = (according to Wikipedia: ) A 1977 Innes song newly infused with a great many Pepper/Magical Mystery Tour-era Beatles references and a new "Hey Jude"-style coda. "A Day in the Life" forms the backbone of the song, which variously transforms into "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" and "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" amongst others, features a chorus suggested by "All You Need Is Love" and "Magical Mystery Tour", and contains a horn riff taken directly from "For No One"; The intro quotes Oasis's "Whatever", in reference to EMI's successful plagiarism lawsuit against that song's melodic similarity to Innes's 1973 single "How Sweet To Be An Idiot"(!!!)
Others are just "Beatlesque":
"Between Us"
"With A Girl Like You"
"Number One"
Cheese and Onions"
"Questionaire"
"Lonely-Phobia"
"Unfinished Words"
"Hey Mister"
"Easy Listening"
"Now She's Left You"
"The Knicker Elastic King"
"Don't Know Why"
"Back in '64"
Everyone will hear different "Beatleisms" in different songs of course, so this list is not definitive. There was a story going around at the time that Innes had been sued by Apple for sounding a little TOO Beatlesque, and as a result he had to credit some of the songs to "Lennon-McCartney-Innes." This was -- of course -- totally made up by Neil for publicity purposes.
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