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Roger Godpleton

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Dandontdare

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Quote from: exilewood on 13 February, 2011, 03:12:47 AM
The greatest performance of what Exilewood says is the best song ever written.

http://www.timsah.com/Bob-Dylan-Isis-1975/q0QVrVl6x7x?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=paylas&utm_campaign=facebook+video

A great song, true, but not so keen on this version - I have problems with many of the sainted Bob's live performances. Now I don't believe that songs should always be performed exactly as they are on the albums, but the way he changes the tunes, melody, rhythm etc every damn time can get a bit wearying. I saw him in Manchester a few years ago and it was bloody awful. At each new song, the audience were straining to decipher a word or phrase that may help them guess what song was being sung, because the tunes gave no clue at all. He seemed to be singing every song to the same tune. My friend who is the biggest Dylan fan imaginable has seen him loads of times and says one or two have been fantastic, but most of them have been crap.

Batman's Superior Cousin

Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 20 April, 2010, 09:25:24 PM
Quote from: johnnystress on 19 April, 2010, 11:20:48 AM
great photos of the Dublin punk scene in the late '80s/early '90s

http://picasaweb.google.com/fromwally/RareAuldTimes02#5347131108146980130

A very young Sinead O Connor at #11

http://picasaweb.google.com/fromwally/RareAuldTimes02#5347131108146980130

Classic! They don't make punks like they used to. Some of those punters are still knocking about, still dressed the same way.  Makes me nostalgic for my occasional trips to Dublin, when I'd walk the streets with my friends smoking fags and feeling like a much cooler dude than I really was.

P.S. Check out the Batson lookalike in the wooly hat in the background of 23

P.P.S. Is that Woody, the old punk who sells various things on Grafton street, playing pool on 92?

Bit older, taller & more fresh faced than I!!!!
What year was this taken???
I can't help but feel that Godpleton's avatar/icon gets more appropriate everyday... - TordelBack
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johnnystress

Well a lot of these guys are about the same age as myself..and having another look realise quite a few are sadly no longer with us. Id' say most of these are from late 80s and early 90s

johnnystress

Quote from: johnnystress on 13 February, 2011, 06:16:43 PM
Well a lot of these guys are about the same age as myself..and having another look realise quite a few are sadly no longer with us. Id' say most of these are from late 80s and early 90s

Pretty much everyone in this band are featured on those photos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p52Bs0aOoOg

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Texts from Last Night


exilewood

Quote from: Dandontdare on 13 February, 2011, 01:10:08 PM
Quote from: exilewood on 13 February, 2011, 03:12:47 AM
The greatest performance of what Exilewood says is the best song ever written.

http://www.timsah.com/Bob-Dylan-Isis-1975/q0QVrVl6x7x?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=paylas&utm_campaign=facebook+video

A great song, true, but not so keen on this version - I have problems with many of the sainted Bob's live performances. Now I don't believe that songs should always be performed exactly as they are on the albums, but the way he changes the tunes, melody, rhythm etc every damn time can get a bit wearying. I saw him in Manchester a few years ago and it was bloody awful. At each new song, the audience were straining to decipher a word or phrase that may help them guess what song was being sung, because the tunes gave no clue at all. He seemed to be singing every song to the same tune. My friend who is the biggest Dylan fan imaginable has seen him loads of times and says one or two have been fantastic, but most of them have been crap.

Don't want to pull this too far off-thread (I shoulda put the link in the music thread first off anyhow), but I hear what you're saying Dan. I've been to 22 (count 'em!) Dylan gigs - two of which were hands-down the best gigs I've ever seen. Another couple were pretty bad. This is a guy who plays 200 shows a year & I dig the fact that he keeps on changing. Sometimes that don't work out too well for the casual listener. For me 2000AD & Dylan were probably the two most important voices in the development of my teenage moral compass (anti-authourity, pro-individual, hypocrisy & injustice the greatest evils) outside my imeadiate family. I'd place him as one of the 20th century's few true genius'. The original punk,(attitude, amphetamines & an almost compulsive desire to get up people's noses) pretty much invented rap (Subterranean Homesick Blues - 1965!). What a cat.

I'm a tad drunk sorry for the rambling on & bad spelling.

But man - that performance rocks! (eagle-eyed viwers will spot the late, great & sadly missed Mick Ronson of The Spiders from Mars there on lead guitar)

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Quote from: johnnystress on 13 February, 2011, 07:33:23 PM
Dubliners...the mystery is solved

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyIZiB-T1Sk

Just to make it clear to non-Dubs:  this is not a spoof, this is absolutely true.  If only the Celtic Tiger economy had been based on this and not selling shoeboxes to each other.

Roger Godpleton

He's only trying to be what following how his dreams make you wanna be, man!