Did they do this Park & Pickering classic?
I can see it now, Maurice and Hot Hands Hula on stage at the RAH, tuxs on, as the orchestra strikes up…
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By a strange coincidence this evening I had a message from my wife’s mates inviting us to a Tong/Ibiza Orchestra thing for someone’s birthday. As luck would have it, we’re away on holiday that week so can’t make it.
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I know SJ is still sore about it even now, but I think Juan Maclean did something very different with it. As a live number, it’s as sweaty and thrilling as it gets. The late Jerry Fuchs was epic on the drums.
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I was lucky to be at Dub tribe gig at the Mercury Lounge in NYC on a very cold February 2002 I think and it was amazing, great sound and venue. We arrived lunch time that day and planned to meet friends who travelled from Boston for the night. My Mrs fell asleep in the hotel and I couldn’t wake her so I went anyway 
got back at 6am to the hotel on East 17st and she was still asleep… She woke me up soon after saying we missed the gig… Lol
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In all seriousness, this looks the best of the bunch. I’ve got a lot of time for Spoony. It’s still a dreadful concept though.
Seats?
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Treated myself to a box
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You’re not a classical guitarist by any chance are you?
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Yeah, right there with ya. I had many an evening where flatmates would discuss whether Sandinista was to their taste or not. Just never liked the way they sound, both musically, vocally and production wise. And believe me it’s not like I haven’t been exposed to it on a fairly regular basis by mate fans.
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Violin/viola. I do sometimes play in a duo with a guitarist friend, mostly Piazolla stuff…
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This one might crinkle some but I’m amongst friends, so here goes.
Pink Floyd. Right from the 80’s days of going to my hash suppliers house and being forced to make the obligatory one and dark side of the moon always seeming to be on, to other friends seeming to have various PF records playing in the background while having a smoke. It always used to bore the absolute pants off me, even after many inhalations of said smoke. To all the earnest helpers playing me early stuff to get me involved as I liked psyche and garage stuff, but my reaction was even more yuk to that , and I’ll include Madcap Laughs in this little WDYG. Just makes me feel like whatever style of tune they have done, many many other bands have done much much better and with much more “energy”. To me it just seems like lazy musak for the masses and I have never got it.
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Whenever I see (certain) sacred cows slain on this thread I find myself torn between admiring the slayer and getting defensive about the cow. The criteria for me as to whether to defend someone is usually subjective based on what emotional impact they left on me. I was pretty slow to get PF, because they were peaking around the time I was born (long after Barrett and all that) and never really noticed them in the 80s. It was all file alongside Jean Michel Jarre and laser shows for yuppies. But later, thanks to the Orb and Battersea and stumbling across various isolated tracks I really started to get into the likes of Echoes, Comfortably Numb and Breathe. It seemed to chime with my growing thirst for long passages, solo guitars and related moods not too different from what I was hearing on mixes and chillout sets. Then years later the London 2012 opening ceremony really cemented for me the emotion of hearing Eclipse which was strange because London had never really before made me emotional as a communal shared experience but it was so touching and unBritish as a spectacle. I really don’t think it was lazy music for the masses. I think around 74-79 they probably were what the Beatles would have evolved into and yes they sold big but that in itself is no crime.
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A very heartfelt and and measured defence. I almost feel bad now. I know that they are special to many. But thank you for the words.
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For me Pink Floyd started and ended with The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Phenomenal album and still brilliant IMO
I love both DSOTM and Wish You Were Here, but the rest I’ve not been able to really get into. Both pretty ubiquitous in some of my “social circles” when I was 18/19/20
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Sunak’s legacy - banning fags?
Animals is my go-to Floyd album, though it is pretty bleak!
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Grown men commenting on the Grimes Coachella set. It was never for you in the first place. Move on, it feels misogynistic, punching down and heavy on secondhand embarrassment reading 40+ yr old DJ comments about it.
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We’ve all fucked up a gig from lack of prep, whether it’s due to being too busy, or being too lazy. It probably would have been more fun to just hear everyone’s stories of messing up gigs due to similar circumstances.
I once played with someone who smoked so much weed that he thought he could plug his iPod into the cdjs and it would read it (maybe it can on some cdjs??) which would be fine if he did it once, but he did three times in a row on different dates. Each time he had literally no memory of having tried it before. He had no backup either, he just sorta stood next to me awkwardly for 4 hours.
I myself turned up to a gig i was doing with serato and forgot to take my plug, so i had to zoom home in a taxi, then come back to the venue with it. Except i forgot to plug it into my laptop anyway, so it ran out of power 2 hours into the night.
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Agreed, making yourself feel good by shitting on someone (unless it’s literal and mutual) is poor behaviour.
I would feel terrible for Grimes having to go through that situation and the after effects if it wasn’t for her weird neo racism and the fact that she still probably banked a tonne of money and her career won’t take much of a hit. Still, it must’ve felt terrible for her.
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