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Davefish

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Re: 6 July 2009: 1980
« Reply #45 on: July 06, 2009, 10:39:29 AM »
Hey, the end was better without the robot saying "that was all right, wasn't it?"  By the way, did anybody ever figure out the story of last Friday's "Massachusetts"?  It still sounded like the Bee Gees to me, but I've been wrong before.
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Re: 6 July 2009: 1980
« Reply #46 on: July 06, 2009, 10:41:16 AM »
Quote from: Tinka_Cat on July 06, 2009, 10:38:26 AM
Quote from: urth on July 06, 2009, 10:33:41 AM
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Quote from: Tinka_Cat on July 06, 2009, 10:29:59 AM
this set is up there, Althea's absence notwithstanding.

I was lucky enough to see the Pretenders before half the orig lineup died off.  One of my fave concerts.
I saw them open for U2 at Oakland Stadium; I don't remember which members were still alive then.  I think that was the Joshua Tree tour

The two guys who died, Pete Farndon and James Honeyman-Scott, died within a couple of months of each other in 1982. Drugs and/or drink, iirc.

that sounds correct.  Farndon chewed gum the whole time onstage.  At one point he had to remove it (for some extended backup vox) so he stuck it on the mic stand.  Song was finished and the gum went back in.  I also recell him spitting the gum high overhead and then catching it w his mouth.  he also crawled inside the speaker cabinet on the side of the stage, playing the whole time.  What a bad boy.  James H-S was freaking incredible that night, too.  We were about 10 yards directly in front of the stage and one of his extended solos used the stereo effect to great ... effect.   :-\  good times.

I remember Farndon and his gum as well. I seem to recall they used it to end a couple of songs--he'd spit it high in the air, and the instant he caught it was the last beat of the song. He definitely played up the bad boy thing.
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Re: 6 July 2009: 1980
« Reply #47 on: July 06, 2009, 10:43:59 AM »
Quote from: Davefish on July 06, 2009, 10:39:29 AM
Hey, the end was better without the robot saying "that was all right, wasn't it?"  By the way, did anybody ever figure out the story of last Friday's "Massachusetts"?  It still sounded like the Bee Gees to me, but I've been wrong before.

Yeah, she's pared that down to just using the sound effects from the end of a video game I can't recall (PacMan maybe?).

As to the BeeGees quandary, the posted setlist attributed it to "A.M.P." but none of us has been able to turn up anything about them.
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Re: 6 July 2009: 1980
« Reply #48 on: July 06, 2009, 11:13:09 AM »
AL "Squeeze"s out a bonus: "Another Nail"
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Re: 6 July 2009: 1980
« Reply #49 on: July 06, 2009, 11:26:05 AM »
Quote from: RGMike on July 06, 2009, 11:13:09 AM
AL "Squeeze"s out a bonus: "Another Nail"

yeah, and the foghead "weiner" passed up the chance to play Joy Division .. typical.   Of course, we all know "Joy Division" on KFOG -- and most stations --  means Love Will Tear Us Apart again.
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Re: 6 July 2009: 1980
« Reply #50 on: July 06, 2009, 11:29:37 AM »
I woke up to the alarm clock radio @ 10 and found out it was 1980 so I was planning on hitting the snooze and sleeping through it (because usually they don't get interesting to me until 1982) but the first song was good so I figured I'd hit the snooze after it, but the second song was good too...and it was one good track after another!  Enough to keep me fighting to stay up in bed all hour so I could hear the next track.

BOS's to Martha and the Muffins, Marianne Faithful, The English Beat, Devo, Dire Straits, and OMD (I didn't realize "Enola Gay" was from as far back as 80!"  And umm... VHM to everyone else.  8)
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Re: 6 July 2009: 1980
« Reply #51 on: July 06, 2009, 11:56:05 AM »
Quote from: Tinka_Cat on July 06, 2009, 11:26:05 AM
Quote from: RGMike on July 06, 2009, 11:13:09 AM
AL "Squeeze"s out a bonus: "Another Nail"

yeah, and the foghead "weiner" passed up the chance to play Joy Division .. typical.   Of course, we all know "Joy Division" on KFOG -- and most stations --  means Love Will Tear Us Apart again.

Of course--that's the only song they recorded, right?  ;)
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Re: 6 July 2009: 1980
« Reply #52 on: July 06, 2009, 01:06:52 PM »
Quote from: urth on July 06, 2009, 11:56:05 AM
Quote from: Tinka_Cat on July 06, 2009, 11:26:05 AM
Quote from: RGMike on July 06, 2009, 11:13:09 AM
AL "Squeeze"s out a bonus: "Another Nail"

yeah, and the foghead "weiner" passed up the chance to play Joy Division .. typical.   Of course, we all know "Joy Division" on KFOG -- and most stations --  means Love Will Tear Us Apart again.

Of course--that's the only song they recorded, right?  ;)

heh, that was pretty much my exposure to them until I heard things like Control and Transmission on college/internet radio stations, which happened within the past 10 years or so, well past the time of their short career.  Then I watched the movie Control and got interested in more ... like Dead Souls.
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Re: 6 July 2009: 1980
« Reply #53 on: July 06, 2009, 03:04:42 PM »
7/6/09 - Monday!  Good times in...1980!!!

   1.  Martha & the Muffins - Echo Beach
   2.  Police - Canary in a Coal Mine
   3.  English Beat - Twist and Crawl
   4.  Marianne Faithfull - Broken English (BEST OF SET!!)
   5.  Devo - Freedom of Choice
(Ads:  Shrinky Dinks/Zim Zam/Pontiac Trans Am)
   6.  The Cars - Gimme Some Slack
   7.  Pete Townshend - Rough Boys
   8.  Pretenders - Up the Neck
(Movie:  Caddyshack)
   9.  O.M.D. - Enola Gay
 10.  Dire Straits - Solid Rock

BONUS TRACK (From Catherine in Los Altos):  Squeeze - Another Nail For My Heart
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Re: 6 July 2009: 1980
« Reply #54 on: July 06, 2009, 10:25:58 PM »
Tuned in about 10 minutes before tonight's replay. The song that directly preceded the set was Kid from the Pretenders' first album, the same album that yielded Up The Neck, which was tune #8 in the set.

So glad they pay attention there at KFOG.

ETA: Btw, there were five bustouts in the set today (Martha&Muffins, EBeat, MFaithfull, Cars, and OMD) and one more song that had only appeared once previously--Devo. And the Townshend tune was not the biggest frequent flier of the set--that honor goes to Dire Straits' Solid Rock, by a factor of two.
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Re: 6 July 2009: 1980
« Reply #55 on: July 07, 2009, 12:28:24 PM »
Quote from: ggould on July 06, 2009, 10:13:48 AM
does anyone else know what this drum intro seems to be from, but isn't?
I finally figured it out.  I thought the drum intro sounded like Cream's NSU:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKbu35n5-dg
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