o/t Music Thread - On this day in 1977….

Bluecabinboy

Bluecabinboy

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Knowing there’s a few music fans of a certain vintage on here, thought it worth noting that for those of us ‘who were there’, ‘tis 45 years to the day since The Adverts unleashed ‘Gary Gilmore’s Eyes’.

For me, one of the defining moments of the punk movement….

‘They're peeling off the bandages,
I'm wincing in the light.
The nurse is looking anxious,
And she's quivering in fright...

I'm looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes….’
 
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Very good song and remember it well. Exciting time for music. On the one hand you had the greats of music such as Floyd, Dylan and Zeppelin and now you had an exciting brand of new music that also paved the way for great indie bands and music that developed. 1977 was a wonderful year.
 
He played it last week along with about 16 other Adverts songs packed into a hour no talking just songs set. It never fails to amaze how bloody sprightly he still is.
If anyone's interested, TV Smith and the Bored Teenagers are playing at the Waterloo on 1st November supported by the ever brilliant Pete Bentham and the Dinnerladies. He will do a few Adverts songs.
 
My dad wouldn't allow punk in the house. Meanwhile friends of mine were buying up Sheena is a Punk Rocker on 12" single; the Damned Damned Damned LP with a photo of Eddy and the Hot Rods on the back of the sleeve; The Selector, Sex Pistols Anarchy and GSTQ singles. New Rose b/w Help! I was allowed to buy The Clash by The Clash. Me and mates went on a 6th form theatre trip to London and saw UK Subs in a pub in Paddington.
Happy days.
 
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I’d just left 6th Form and was working as a postman. There were some great songs. Rattus Norvegicus a great album by the Stranglers. Elvis dies in four days time . I remember some old bird in Queenstown crying about it has I passed over her Giro. That soon cheered her up
 
Bah punk was only invented to give me and my biker mates somebody to fight outside the footy season. It will not surprise you to know I was a jumped piece of shit of a schoolboy at the time. That will have been around the time Bat Out of Hell was circulating round the playground and we all borrowed the one or two copies around to record onto a cassette.

Then there was 10cc (nobody wrote songs like they did) Fleetwood Mac and the terminally gorgeous Stevie Nicks, Skynyrd, Bob Seger, Purple, Sabbath, Zep, Floyd (for the stoners) Lord above even Foreigner were good back then. They were good days.
 
bill40 said:
Bah punk was only invented to give me and my biker mates somebody to fight outside the footy season. It will not surprise you to know I was a jumped piece of shit of a schoolboy at the time. That will have been around the time Bat Out of Hell was circulating round the playground and we all borrowed the one or two copies around to record onto a cassette.

Then there was 10cc (nobody wrote songs like they did) Fleetwood Mac and the terminally gorgeous Stevie Nicks, Skynyrd, Bob Seger, Purple, Sabbath, Zep, Floyd (for the stoners) Lord above even Foreigner were good back then. They were good days.
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Are you American?😀
 
bill40 said:
Bah punk was only invented to give me and my biker mates somebody to fight outside the footy season. It will not surprise you to know I was a jumped piece of shit of a schoolboy at the time. That will have been around the time Bat Out of Hell was circulating round the playground and we all borrowed the one or two copies around to record onto a cassette.

Then there was 10cc (nobody wrote songs like they did) Fleetwood Mac and the terminally gorgeous Stevie Nicks, Skynyrd, Bob Seger, Purple, Sabbath, Zep, Floyd (for the stoners) Lord above even Foreigner were good back then. They were good days.
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OK OK a confession. I really like Shwaddywaddy and The Darts too.
 
1966_and_all_that said:
My dad wouldn't allow punk in the house. Meanwhile friends of mine were buying up Sheena is a Punk Rocker on 12" single; the Damned Damned Damned LP with a photo of Eddy and the Hot Rods on the back of the sleeve; The Selector, Sex Pistols Anarchy and GSTQ singles. New Rose b/w Help! I was allowed to buy The Clash by The Clash. Me and mates went on a 6th form theatre trip to London and saw UK Subs in a pub in Paddington.
Happy days.
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That Damned album with the Hot Rods pic is worth over £300 now

Have you still got it? Oh hang on …. 😉
 
Seasider3610 said:
That Damned album with the Hot Rods pic is worth over £300 now

Have you still got it? Oh hang on …. 😉
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Not mine I'm afraid. The chap who owned it - haven't seen him for donkeys - brought it into 6th form and we all had a laugh at how they'd got it wrong. I wonder if he still has it?
 
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