Didn’t we discover in a previous thread that most of the British population had met Geoff Capes at one stage or another?
Read recently that Thatcher’s government, as a measure to try and force British athletes to boycott the 1980 Moscow Olympics, prohibited athletes that were employed in the public sector or military from being granted leave to compete. Capes, a police officer, had to resign in order to go to the games. Afterwards, as had lost his income and pension, he was forced to earn a living in events like World’s Strongest Man, Superstars and the Highland Games. This meant that he had to forfeit his amateur status, and couldn’t compete in the World or European Athletic Championships, Commonwealth Games or the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.
Just an awful human being. I watched a ‘Strike: A Very Uncivil War’ on a flight last month and it made me so fucking angry. The BBC can go fuck itself too. Thick as thieves in their collusion against the miners.
The Brighton bomb stuff is quite shocking too
She was so desperate to be the Iron Lady she wouldn’t even hold the party conference up for a day, even though a bunch of people were dead
it’s only been in the last couple of decades that i’ve cared about the grateful dead. when i was young, i had a small group of pals that were musically obsessed as much as i - and starting around 6th or 7th grade, our paths diverged, i was more into noise, punk, hip hop and electronic and they were a lot more into classic guitar stuff, and very much into the dead.
i saw the dead a couple of times in the late 80s/early 90s, though it’s safe to say i was there much more for the drugs and the spectacle than i was the music. too noodly, too country, too aimless for me. but i did like the “space/drums” section which was where it got atmospheric and jazzy. still, didn’t care for all that shambolic white people freaky dancing business.
now, i can hear the jazzy elements more clearly, and i can appreciate the musicianship and the americana of it all. and ironically, the kids that i grew up with who loved all the countryfied jam band scenes all through the 90’s and 00’s are a whole lot more into the whole big & obnoxious rave festival thing. i’ve teased them a couple of times about how slow they were to adopt a love for drum machines, they’ve teased me for now knowing the lyrics to “china cat sunflower”.
Most of the articles will focus on him working with Biggie, Jay Z etc but he’d been around since the 80s and was an excellent DJ. I’ve got a few tapes of him on WBLS from 89-92 and he’s levels above most other DJs ive heard from that period. Really tight, clean mixes.
she was david letterman’s favorite guest (as far as i can tell), she was one of those who would show up when the big star cancelled, and dave would be over the moon for any excuse to flirt with her. forgive me for being extra, but she had charisma out the ass.
Agreed 100%, she was amazing!!
The underrated genius that is Don Giller put together all of her appearances on Letterman and they are all amazing and very fun to watch.
Watch how he introduces her in the first clip. And for some reason he always sort of flubs his lines when introducing her, like he’s nervous.
we all have a school friend like that… a friend of mine always said his grandfather invented the HB Brunch…
loop the loop is the best hangover cure
