So we Scots are claiming Disney and HD bikes too
How did Disney come into the discussion? Don't get me started! Here's a company who's still milking the creativity of people who are long gone. This was not the intent of copyrights.
The World's Top Five Rock Bands are all British?
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How did Disney come into the discussion? Don't get me started! Here's a company who's still milking the creativity of people who are long gone. This was not the intent of copyrights.
saltyseadog
Tele-Holic
Here's the top ten best selling bands in the World up to now.
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And here are the top ten all time artists to now.
Top 10 Best-Selling Bands of All Time - All Top Everything
Each of these top bands have sold at least 100 million record sales worldwide! Check out the updated and current Top 10 Best-selling bands of all time!
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And here are the top ten all time artists to now.
tele_savales
Tele-Afflicted
Saw them open for Alan Holdsworth, with Vinnie Colaiuta on drums. Pretty big night.
tlsmack
Tele-Afflicted
My personal list goes at least 15 deep before it makes it to the USA.
Grateful Dead
Talking Heads
Ramones
Blondie
Jefferson Airplane
Would be at the top of my USA
Grateful Dead
Talking Heads
Ramones
Blondie
Jefferson Airplane
Would be at the top of my USA
Charlie Bernstein
Doctor of Teleocity
Oh, man, I sure can!
ClashCityTele
Friend of Leo's
The singer in my band, Paul, used to deliver our milk when he was a teenager! He heard me playing guitar when he came to collect the milk money in 1982. I haven't been able to get rid of the irritating little **** since - lol
.Actually, he's had a crap day. Some old codger drove into his car, and 3 others, in a car park. And he's in the middle of moving house!
Bit of a mess -
Kandinskyesque
Friend of Leo's
I also found this book about The Damned on Google books a while back.I thought he was Hungarian!
Dave Vanian of The Damned is often quoted as being born in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, when in fact he was born in Newcastle Upon Tyne but relocated when he was a baby. He keeps very quiet about it, but whenever the Damned play Newcastle, we always chant 'Vanian's a Geordie, Vanian's a Geordie' as well as 'Sensible's a w****r, Sensible's a w****r' of course.
Alex Kapranos (Scottish musician with the Scottish rock band Franz Ferdinand) is half Greek, was born in Gloucestershire, spent 7 years in Sunderland, then moved to Glasgow. Work out that one.
https://www.google.co.uk/books/edit...author:"Barry+Hutchinson"&printsec=frontcover
I'm not sure how much of a preview it gives these days but around a year or so ago, it gave the entire book in preview. How The Damned managed to operate as a band baffles me. It's nothing short of a miracle that they were neither dead nor in jail or the asylum by '79.
I'd read through it back then to see if it mentioned our old roadie, but to no avail.
What it did mention though was a guy who was our basket case manager (Tommy Crossan) from 1998-2001. He tour managed The Damned and doubled up as their sound engineer in the late 70s.
He went on to co-manage A Flock of Seagulls with another mad Scotsman.
By the time he became our manager he was a casualty of the music business and worse than a man short but his stories were fantastic.
Still, we weren't much better ourselves, none of us had the discipline to be serious enough in the face of all the hedonism that was available to us.
ClashCityTele
Friend of Leo's
I've seen so many line-ups of the Damned over the years it's incredible. The only constant has been Dave Vanian, and even he sometimes steps back and watches the chaos unfold.
I saw them in Birmingham for their 20th Anniversary (and in London on their 10th). Sensible's mic stand kept falling apart, but when the poor roadie came to fix it, Sensible was smashing him over the head with his mic & yelling 'You owe me £10 you b*****d'. He then stripped off down to his socks & hat, and played the last 2 or 3 songs like that. Never once showing 'his bits'.
Apparently, they weren't even called The Damned that night due to legal action from Rat Scabies. Yeah, Chaos!
the list of this kind is a very nothing event , cause my dad is bigger than your dad!
Sgt Pepper
Tele-Meister
I could explain to you how, by Rubber Soul in 1965, The Beatles were making music that could affect you in ways you'd not experienced before, if you were in a certain frame of mind. That was unlike the music from any pop band I ever heard before or after them. But I won't explain that because some people would be probably be offended, though a great lot of the music those posters have loved and played most of their lives were so created, which is kind of ironic. Nowhere Man and and Norwegian Wood are a couple of songs on Rubber Soul that come to mind.
I will just say that by 1965 many sounds you'd never heard in rock were recored on RS, including the first time a harmonium was used on a rock recording. I guess it's also ok to note Lennon's first real introspective song, In My Life, which doesn't sound remotely pop to me.
Finally, the last song on Rubber Soul is Run For Your Life. Persona is basically a stalker, and threatens the lady's life if she strays. Certainly unpop like.
And after Rubber Soul The Beatles songs only became more introspective, more creative, more....errrr....experimental.
But one thing with which I would agree is that by the end of it, in retrospect, The Beatles weren't really a rock band, because they transcended genre, unlike any other band before or since then, pop or otherwise. Oh, and the most influential band ever, or in our lifetime at least.
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Manual Slim
Poster Extraordinaire
Is something deemed pop or not based solely on lyrical content?
Sgt Pepper
Tele-Meister
I think pop is simply derived from the word "popular", so if a lot of people like it and listen to it, I guess in a way it's pop.
Personally I like power pop. The Cars have sometimes been so described. So have Rockpile, which imo is one of the best rock bands ever. I can't say Men Without Hats is one of my most favorite bands, but I do like their silly song and video...
