A good day
Mike Wilcox
first glance is rubbish because our eyes are on something else.
Yesterday I was going through a box lot of old books I'd
purchased to read during those Canadian winter days you'd rather
not go out in ( all of this past two weeks :~) and found a copy
of " The Harder they Fall" by Budd Schulberg. Being a bit of a
Bogart film buff this made my day because I knew the book was the
basis of a Bogart movie of the same name about prize fighting.
Checking for values on the book I got a bit of a shock, a first
edition like mine in VG condition is selling in the $80.00-
$175.00 range* ;~)). I guess I'll have to try and not get
blueberry jam on the pages before I sell it ;~))
* Lists at $449.00 with dust dust cover intact
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Mike Wilcox
first glance is rubbish because our eyes are on something else.
Yesterday I was going through a box lot of old books I'd
purchased to read during those Canadian winter days you'd rather
not go out in ( all of this past two weeks :~) and found a copy
of " The Harder they Fall" by Budd Schulberg. Being a bit of a
Bogart film buff this made my day because I knew the book was the
basis of a Bogart movie of the same name about prize fighting.
Checking for values on the book I got a bit of a shock, a first
edition like mine in VG condition is selling in the $80.00-
$175.00 range* ;~)). I guess I'll have to try and not get
blueberry jam on the pages before I sell it ;~))
* Lists at $449.00 with dust cover intact
jJim Horne
Mike Wilcox wrote in message <40083E0A...@sympatico.ca>...
Nice one Mike, two or three of those everyday for a week or two and they`ll
be calling you Ronnie.........!!!!!!
Jim : ))
T-13
Excellent work there, M.
If the Winter drags on and on, have a look at
Budd Schulberg's "The Disenchanted", one of my
old faves. It's sort of a fictionalized account
of F. Scott Fitzgerald's life when he was in
Hollywood writing movies.
T.
jJim Horne
Ronnie McKinley wrote in message ...
>In rec.antiques "jJim Horne" <j...@horne111.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>
>>Nice one Mike, two or three of those everyday for a week or two and
they`ll
>>be calling you Ronnie.........!!!!!!
>
>
>Ho Ho Ho
>
>Hey Jimbo, it's not me who researches everything in great detail, believing
>everything to be the feckin' "holy grail" :>)
>
>
>Haven't had a decent one since Mmmmmmmmmm ..... geez!! a while now :(
>Christie's are pretty much crap these days, take way too long between the
>sales, and want everything to make a 500+ before they will take it. Not
like
>the old days at Glasgow and Chester.
>
>Anyways, no bloody money in dealing antiques and other related crap these
>days, except catching the mugs on ebay .... a hole in the head sounds more
>interesting :)
>
>
>
>(I'm away to listen to a Jefferson Airplane album I bought today for 2
quid)
>
>--
>Ronnie
Aye Ronnie,
Boy and its tough enough just to get 3 squares an a
flop : )) never mind keeping these peacocks fed and watered !!!
Even I havent found much since that Gold armlet from
Finguins river grave.............. : ) still it did keep the old Lear jet
full of gas for a while ! watch out for White Rabbits. On the Ebay note,
diddle - diddlly dum-dum -- teetle teetle tee : )))
Nice Claret mmmm.
Jim
jJim Horne
Ronnie McKinley wrote in message ...
>In rec.antiques "jJim Horne" <j...@horne111.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Even I havent found much since that Gold armlet from
>>Finguins river grave.............. : )
>
Still have it, it makes me happy to look at it, on a dull, pissy, grey, aye
Dreich Scottish day I can peek under the lid and dissappear into a sparkling
flashing Dream-Land, where mystery and mastery stroll arm in arm...........
WOW !!! I thought I was on Ebay for a minute : )) or a Jefferson Album : )
I am still on the lookout for a cheapish copy of " part
seen , part imagined " I believe it could hold a few clues regarding the
Mackintosh`s private worlds, but I am a dreamer : )
>
>
>Down a Lidel's again? :)
NIEN !!!
>
>
>
>
>--
>Ronnie
Mike Wilcox
I'll do that, it's been -22 to -28 here all week with windchills
to -40, so a good read is essential. I've always been a sucker
for 20's & 30's yarns, another I'll have to read again is John
Glassco's 'Memoirs of Montparnasse' it covers the seamer side of
Paris during the 1920's, Gertrude Stein, Hemmingway, Morley
Callahan and that crowd.
I've always believed you can catch a glimpse of your younger self
by rereading the novels from your youth. Fitzgerald's stuff was
one of my favourite reads during my late teens and since then
I've many times " glanced seaward- and distinguished nothing
except a single green light" along with Gatsby at the end of the
dock.
--
Mike Wilcox
--
Mike Wilcox
Yes the good stuff is thin on the ground, for every nice bit I see I get a boat
load of granny's Nippon ;~)). Myself I picked up a Roy Orbison, so it's 'Mean
Women Blues' for me.
--
Mike Wilcox
--
Mike Wilcox
> In rec.antiques "jJim Horne" <j...@horne111.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Even I havent found much since that Gold armlet from
> >Finguins river grave.............. : )
>
> Talking of which ..... whatever happened to that CRM love token? :)
>
> > watch out for White Rabbits.
>
> Ya know summit ... I never recall Jefferson Airplane being so drugged-out
> before. Don't what this album is, must be a bootleg 'cos it sounds like it
> was recorded in some poppy den in the early 70s
>
> .... btw is Grace Slick still living?
>
> >On the Ebay note,
> >diddle - diddlly dum-dum -- teetle teetle tee : )))
>
> Tart !!
>
> > Nice Claret mmmm.
>
> Down a Lidel's again? :)
>
> --
> Ronnie
Yeah still alive and well http://www.starship.pp.se/bio/grace_slick.html
mcat
<appra...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>Every now and again we get lucky and stumble on something that at
>first glance is rubbish because our eyes are on something else.
>Yesterday I was going through a box lot of old books I'd
>purchased to read during those Canadian winter days you'd rather
>not go out in ( all of this past two weeks :~) and found a copy
>of " The Harder they Fall" by Budd Schulberg. Being a bit of a
>Bogart film buff this made my day because I knew the book was the
>basis of a Bogart movie of the same name about prize fighting.
>Checking for values on the book I got a bit of a shock, a first
>edition like mine in VG condition is selling in the $80.00-
>$175.00 range* ;~)). I guess I'll have to try and not get
>blueberry jam on the pages before I sell it ;~))
>
>* Lists at $449.00 with dust dust cover intact
>
>--
>Mike Wilcox
I like the old books. We've got a pile and a half of 1920's-40's
answer to harlequins. Got boxes and boxes from someone who was in
some book club. Nice if you're in the mood for a bit of romantic
fluff for an afternoon.
But the last old book I read (just finished a few weeks ago) was
"Children of the Abbey." Mine was a reprint, in only three volumes,
from 1828. By Mrs. Regina Maria Roche. A bit preachy, but not too
bad. And it sure makes me appreciate modern conveniences.
There's just something about reading those old yellowing pages, in
that little book......
mcat
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Mike Wilcox
On good thing about most book club editions is that you don't have to
worry about the blueberry jam ;~)) Though some club editions (
Mysteries) are worth grabbing if you can find them.
T-13
>John Glassco's 'Memoirs of Montparnasse'
Thank you, Mike. I'm making a note of this one, since it's one I never even
heard of and I thought I had read ALL of those books. ;)
T.
jJim Horne
>Yea, ya back on the fags again?
>
>
>http://www.posters.co.uk/AProduct/Search/5/0/Charles_Rennie_Mackintosh.html
>
>5.99 ? :)
>
>
>
>
>--
>Ronnie
No Fags today.......thats a year now, god I am sooo fat !!!: ))
No, I am after the book also called " Part seen, Part imagined " delves
into the possible symbolism the Macks were into and used cant remember who
wrote it at the mo, some guy from Dundee, saw one on yabe months ago, went
for $90............... ixnay ancecha ; )
Jim
>
Marshall Schuon
_______
Ahhh, T. Ain't it amazin'? Was one of my favorites too! I
stumbled across The Disenchanted when I was first working as a young
reporter fresh out of the Navy in 1959. I *wrapped* myself in that
book. Wallowed in its pages.
And then many years later when I was working at Newsday on Long
Island, I had some conversations with Schulberg and had the honor to
edit -- well, to ask him if I could change a word or two -- a piece
that he wrote for me about summer in the Island's hoity-toity East
End.
But I'm always somehow surprised to connect with other folk who were
on my same young wavelength ... like that message from Doug recently
about Charlie Kehoe. Actually, the connection was in the post from
Senor FireGifts, talking about Jean Shepherd. I mean, God, I was
sitting out there in the dark listening to old Shep on WOR the same
time as Charlie was!
Of course, we were all of us alone in that dark, all thinking we had a
monopoly on hipness. I remember being very smug about being a charter
subscriber of The Village Voice, one of Shep's sponsors. Cool and
wondrous paper in those days.
And a paper that didn't trifle with details. Like when a story didn't
fit. Most papers find some sort of wire short or house ad to plug
in at the bottom when the type doesn't fill. Not The Voice. They had
ONE standard filler, good for whatever ailed the page. And I can
remember it to this day:
"In 1939, the state of Wyoming produced one-third of a pound of dry
edible beans for every man, woman and child in the nation."
Yep, yep. I did love the Fifties.
Marshall
jJim Horne
Ronnie McKinley wrote in message ...
>In rec.antiques "jJim Horne" <j...@horne111.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>http://www.posters.co.uk/AProduct/Search/5/0/Charles_Rennie_Mackintosh.ht
ml
>>>
>>>5.99 ? :)
>>>
>
>>No, I am after the book also called " Part seen, Part imagined " delves
>>into the possible symbolism the Macks were into and used cant remember who
>>wrote it at the mo, some guy from Dundee, saw one on yabe months ago, went
>>for $90............... ixnay ancecha ; )
>> Jim
>
>
>
>The book by Timothy Neat .. "Part Seen, Part Imagined: Meaning and
Symbolism
>in the Work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret MacDonald" ... at
>Amazon at the moment 14.99 plus delivery. Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd;
>ISBN: 0862413664.
>
>$90 ebay? must have been a first edition ... good old ebay.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>--
>Ronnie
Cheers Ronnie,
I will order it on the net,
£14.99 is a good price. Beautiful sunny day here : ) for a change. Good old
ebay indeed, wait till you see my Swansea jug, incredible flower painting ,
£5.99.............. : )
Jim
jJim Horne
>>
>
>Aye, pity about the six inch nails you have holding it to the stock floor
:)
>
>
>OK post a pix ... lets have wee dekko.
>
>
>
>
>
>--
>Ronnie
Har -de- har-har : )) 6 inch nail indeed ! Its in my
gallery !!!!! HA ! and dont say " ach its merely staffordshire cottage -
ware, tripe, and buckets of it " .....: ) Your opinion is as always very
welcome, as is that of the rest of the knowalls errr , sorry the keyboard
has a fault....errr err : ))) here is the link, I hope !!!
www.dustystuff.co.uk/dustystuffpage2.htm
Jim
T-13
wrote:
---
When I was 14 years old my Mom handed me a copy of
The Catcher in the Rye and said, "Read this."
I was never the same again.
;)
T.
T-13
Wonderful post, Marshall.
T.
Mike Wilcox
Mine was "Swallows and Amazons" at eight ;~)) I still have the book some 40
years later.
Mike Wilcox
I love that line "we were all of us alone in that dark, all thinking we had
a
monopoly on hipness", it could used to describe the youth of any age. Each
generation seems to has it's own literary Sages, though I don't know of one
for this generation. The literary lions don't seem to roar as loud as they
once did ;~))
--
Mike Wilcox
--
mk...@sc.tds.net
>>
>>Marshall
>---
>When I was 14 years old my Mom handed me a copy of
>The Catcher in the Rye and said, "Read this."
>I was never the same again.
>;)
>T.
Just last week while poking around in a pile of juke at a flea market,
I found "Starting from San Francisco New Poems by Lawrence
Ferlinghetti, complete with a recording of him reading some of them.
I brought it home with me. I remember being "too round to be square
and too neat to be beat."
Maryann
"Anything can be anywhere!"
jJim Horne
Ronnie McKinley wrote in message ...
>In rec.antiques "jJim Horne" <j...@horne111.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>
>
>
>
>
>This not so pretty ... but still a nice handle and beak and, lustre. A
>nice silver-shape :)
>
>http://www.glenbourne-antiques.fsnet.co.uk/jug.html
Yep, fair enough Staffy jug, like the neat brush work.
>
>
>Ah just duff old pottery and merely staffordshire. Early? of course ;>)
>
>http://www.glenbourne-antiques.fsnet.co.uk/fig.html
Arent those figures a crude version of my porcelain ones ? : ) or should I
say naive ?
>
>
>btw. I'll take the wee cupid (putti) off yer hands, at a good price,
>mind you. It should go with the rest of my miniatures and putti
> ... email me a price and get him boxed up pronto ;>)
You couldnt afford him : ))
>
>
>
>
>
>--
>Ronnie
T-13
Now, for most of us on this side, all we know is that Swansea is where
Dylan Thomas grew up. ;) But I gotta say, that flower painting they did
there is first rate. It's something that is not often
enough discussed, IMO, the quality of painting on ceramics.
I can see the relation of the painting on ceramics in the catalog
with Jim's example.
But... there he is, young Mr. Thomas, like 17, 18 years old,
writing The Hunchback in the Park!
It just amazed me the first time I read it as a teenager and it still does.
How the hell does someone write like that when he's just a kid? My God,
he wrote Over Sir John's Hill and oh, what's the name of the one where the
owls fly away with the farm? Anyway, he was just so way cool, he was
the Welch Elvis, only smart. ;)
T.
Dylan Thomas - The Hunchback In The Park
The hunchback in the park
A solitary mister
Propped between trees and water
From the opening of the garden lock
That lets the trees and water enter
Until the Sunday sombre bell at dark
Eating bread from a newspaper
Drinking water from the chained cup
That the children filled with gravel
In the fountain basin where I sailed my ship
Slept at night in a dog kennel
But nobody chained him up.
Like the park birds he came early
Like the water he sat down
And Mister they called Hey Mister
The truant boys from the town
Running when he had heard them clearly
On out of sound
Past lake and rockery
Laughing when he shook his paper
Hunchbacked in mockery
Through the loud zoo of the willow groves
Dodging the park keeper
With his stick that picked up leaves.
And the old dog sleeper
Alone between nurses and swans
While the boys among willows
Made the tigers jump out of their eyes
To roar on the rockery stones
And the groves were blue with sailors
Made all day until bell time
A woman figure without fault
Straight as a young elm
Straight and tall from his crooked bones
That she might stand in the night
After the locks and chains
All night in the unmade park
After the railings and shrubberies
The birds the grass the trees the lake
And the wild boys innocent as strawberries
Had followed the hunchback
To his kennel in the dark.
jJim Horne
Ronnie McKinley wrote in message ...
>
>>>
>>
>> Yep, fair enough Staffy jug, like the neat brush work.
>>>
>
>Staffordshire Cottage, Gaudy Welsh Staffordshire or Gaudy Welsh, how can
>you tell? :)
>
>http://www.glamorganantiques.co.uk/gw101b.jpg
>
Yes Indeed, how to tell ? Its a fact they used the same moulds , the
same colours, but perhaps there were squiggles and stylisations ? that were
peculiar to a region, I cant see what difference it makes really where they
come from, they are all rustic type pottery and porcelain ( though certain
Welsh gaudy welsh patterns : ) seems to get the price ) Then so does
Sunderland Lustre ware though it is a different kettle of fish from " lustre
" . In fact its a mine field, silver lustre, canary lustre,
............. .aye.
>
>>>
>>>Ah just duff old pottery and merely staffordshire. Early? of course ;>)
>>>
>>>http://www.glenbourne-antiques.fsnet.co.uk/fig.html
>>
>> Arent those figures a crude version of my porcelain ones ? : ) or should
I
>>say naive ?
>>>
>
>Depends.
Aye, so it does !
>
>
>>>
>>>btw. I'll take the wee cupid (putti) off yer hands, at a good price,
>>>mind you. It should go with the rest of my miniatures and putti
>>> ... email me a price and get him boxed up pronto ;>)
>>
>>You couldnt afford him : ))
>
>
>I think you're right .... or maybe that was in Euros? ;>)))
>
I can just see ye Ronnie, splutterin away at that price, I could
feel my ears burnin ; ))
>
>
>
>
>--
>Ronnie
And Ts Dylan Thomas poem, yes I remember reading Under Milk Wood
when I was 17 and thinking, " that guy is out his box " ..... he did like
his dram they say... Great language, One line that has stuck with me "
Quick, quick, dirty Dick, beat him on the bum with a rhubarb stick "
!!!!!!, bizarre.............
Jim
T-13
>Staffordshire potteries or the Welsh potteries, Swansea Cottage or
>Staffordshire Cottage, Gaudy Welsh Staffordshire or Gaudy Welsh, how can
>you tell? :)
>
>http://www.glamorganantiques.co.uk/gw101b.jpg
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Jimminy Christmas, what a question.
OK, here's some Gaudy Welch; we see a little of that over here sometimes.
http://pages.tonistreasures.com/5062/PictPage/1161692.html
So, I think I will say that's not it.
T.
T-13
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>Well you would be wrong, wouldn't ya?
>
>http://www.glamorganantiques.co.uk/gaudywelsh.htm
----
So, does that mean that it is Gaudy Welch? Ah, there it is.
It was the colors I was going by. There was no
iron red or cobalt blue.
Hmmm...
T.
jJim Horne
Ronnie McKinley wrote in message
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>http://www.glenbourne-antiques.fsnet.co.uk/jug.html
>>>>
>>>> Yep, fair enough Staffy jug, like the neat brush work.
>>>>>
>>>
>>>Staffordshire potteries or the Welsh potteries, Swansea Cottage or
>>>Staffordshire Cottage, Gaudy Welsh Staffordshire or Gaudy Welsh, how can
>>>you tell? :)
>>>
>>>http://www.glamorganantiques.co.uk/gw101b.jpg
>>>
>>
>> Yes Indeed, how to tell ? Its a fact they used the same moulds , the
>>same colours, but perhaps there were squiggles and stylisations ? that
were
>>peculiar to a region, I cant see what difference it makes really where
they
>>come from, they are all rustic type pottery and porcelain ( though
certain
>>Welsh gaudy welsh patterns : ) seems to get the price ) Then so does
>>Sunderland Lustre ware though it is a different kettle of fish from "
lustre
>>" . In fact its a mine field, silver lustre, canary lustre,
>>............. .aye.
>>>
>
>it's Staffordshire of Welsh. And as you say, who cares? ;>)
>
>
>>>>>btw. I'll take the wee cupid (putti) off yer hands, at a good price,
>>>>>mind you. It should go with the rest of my miniatures and putti
>>>>> ... email me a price and get him boxed up pronto ;>)
>>>>
>>>>You couldnt afford him : ))
>>>
>>>
>>>I think you're right .... or maybe that was in Euros? ;>)))
>>>
>>
>> I can just see ye Ronnie, splutterin away at that price, I could
>>feel my ears burnin ; ))
>
>
>What was that I was saying about, six inch nails?
>
>> And Ts Dylan Thomas poem, yes I remember reading Under Milk Wood
>>when I was 17 and thinking, " that guy is out his box " ..... he did like
>>his dram they say
>
>
>All the same I can't see the comparison between Dylan Thomas and ELVIS!!
>Didn't Elvis OD on beefburgers, or summit.?
>
>Talking about gobbledegook. I'm currently listening to some of your
>compatriots on CD - the Cocteau Twins - what the feck is that woman
>singing about, anyway -- surely to god it isn't English?
>
>Well Dylan Thomas and the Cocteau Twins, you may ask, but geez at least
>it's a better comparison than the "Welch" Elvis - all Celtic bothers
>at the very least. :))
>
>"Welch" btw is that the 'Royal Welch Fusiliers' ;>)
>
>
>
>--
>Ronnie
This is some bloody thread !!!! the cocteau twins..... they hail from
Grangemouth, a few miles away, but you know I`ve never paid them any
attention, nope, what are they, culty, punky art studenty, I was still
listening to Pink Floyd....... :) anyways , hows that new Kitchen ???? :)
Quiz...
Who wrote " Pleasures are like Poppies spread, you seize
the flower its bloom is shed "...... and those Puttis are 10 a penny anyway
: ))))
Jim
T-13
in all things gaudy, here's a hunk of Gaudy Ironstone.
http://www.veederhouse.org/misc/ellaneous.html
It comes later, after Gaudy Dutch and Gaudy Welch.
Well, who knows, the periods probably overlapped some.
But generally speaking, it's later.
T.
jJim Horne
Ronnie McKinley wrote in message ...
>In rec.antiques "jJim Horne" <j...@horne111.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>This is some bloody thread !!!! the cocteau twins..... they hail from
>>Grangemouth, a few miles away,
>
>
>>but you know I`ve never paid them any
>>attention, nope, what are they, culty, punky art studenty,
>
>massive amounts of dried poppy seeds. 'This Mortal Coil' would be from
>the same stable (the Ivo Watts' brainchild) but without the Celtic Yelp.
>
>"Peep hole, Peach blow, Pandora, Pompadour
>Pale leaf, Pink sweet, Persephone, Near our rito(ivo??)
>Peep peep hole, Bit animal, Peep peep
>He didn't deal, little rito, Peep peep hole
>With the part animal, Peep peep, Near our rito
>Peep peep hole, Bit animal, Peep peep
>He didn't deal, little rito
>Peep peep hole
>With the part animal"
Good God..... they were livin far too close to them reekin lums...aye far
too close : )) I could do better...listen...
" boom bang - a - bang , thud - pounding away
flying frying fishy in a pooky dishy...
Die - die -diver ! etc.etc.etc.
See , its as easy as that : ))))
>
>
>> I was still
>>listening to Pink Floyd....... :)
>
>When? I'm talking about the 90s.
Aye....so am I : ))))
>
>
Jim
jJim Horne
>
> ... in truth, there's little that's noteworthy about their post-Waters
>output at all :>))) - geez that must be 20 years ago now? We're
>getting old. Jimmy :)
>
>
>
>
>
>--
>Ronnie
I agree Ronnie, I was a Meddle, DSOTM, WYWH, and to a
lesser extent Ummagumma ? fan, and sadly reluctantly yes, we are getting
auld.
Jim
jJim Horne
Ronnie McKinley wrote in message
>In rec.antiques "jJim Horne" <j...@horne111.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>>Ronnie McKinley wrote in message ...
>
>>>output at all :>))) - geez that must be 20 years ago now? We're
>>>getting old. Jimmy :)
>
a
>>lesser extent Ummagumma ? fan, and sadly reluctantly yes, we are getting
>>auld.
>
>
>
>I recall it like yesterday :) got my very first real hi-fi system about
>67/68, previously I was buying 45s and playing them on my sister's Decca
>radiogram, the very first LPs I ever bought PF's 'A Saucerful of
>Secrets' and Van's 'Astral Weeks' Haven't played the PF in years but
>still play the Astral Weeks.
>
> ..... bought the '25th anniversary' edition of DSOTM on CD last year to
>replace my knackered original vinyl copy. Don't have a SACD player so
>don't know what the multichannel tracks sound like but the standard CD
>stereo tracks are crap compared to the original DSOTM master.
>
>
>
>
>--
>Ronnie
Yes, Its vinyl for me, dont understand difficult things : )
I remember the day we had our " portadyne " radiogram delivered, from the
coop ! no less, must have been 63 ish, I remember saving up to buy " I wanna
hold your hand " ( my firdt 45 ) Beatles ofcourse. I was playing marbles
when the van arrived with the machine !! I just gave the guy I was playing
all my marbles and said BYE !! what excitement, ( up till then it was the
old wind -up gramaphone, playing Will Fyfe and the like, Oh I remember some
Military Brass Band playing the overture to Carmen by Bizet , and you know
that has stuck in my head since !!!!!!!! , at the latter end the spring
snapped and I continued to use it by spinning the turntable with my figure
!!! ) Happy Bloody Days : ))
Yes PF, I shouldnt forget The Wall having seen it
performed live at Earls Court, that was good. Still like Astral Weeks though
mines is sooo scratched now, must buy another copy , vinyl though.
Jim
Mike Wilcox
> In rec.antiques "jJim Horne" <j...@horne111.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >
> > Yes, Its vinyl for me, dont understand difficult things : )
> >I remember the day we had our " portadyne " radiogram delivered, from the
> >coop ! no less, must have been 63 ish, I remember saving up to buy " I wanna
> >hold your hand " ( my firdt 45 ) Beatles ofcourse. I was playing marbles
> >when the van arrived with the machine !! I just gave the guy I was playing
> >all my marbles and said BYE !! what excitement, ( up till then it was the
> >old wind -up gramaphone, playing Will Fyfe and the like, Oh I remember some
> >Military Brass Band playing the overture to Carmen by Bizet , and you know
> >that has stuck in my head since !!!!!!!! , at the latter end the spring
> >snapped and I continued to use it by spinning the turntable with my figure
> >!!! ) Happy Bloody Days : ))
>
> Oh shut up you're making me cry.
>
> The biggest sound that sticks in my head from those days was the sound
> of Radio Luxembourg. Under the blankets with a cheap Jap tranny
> listening to the top 20 coming in and out on those faded waves of sound.
> In the day before rock and roll, in the days before FM radio. Ah the
> magic of it, all so long ago. :)
>
> "Take me back, take me way, way, way back
> On Hyndford Street where you could feel the silence
> At half past eleven on long summer nights
> As the wireless played Radio Luxembourg
> And the voices whispered across Beechie River
> And in the quietness we sank into restful slumber in silence
> And carried on dreaming in God"
>
> --
> Ronnie
Cut it out you guys, I'm getting all teary eyed ;~)). My dad was an audio buff
who built his own speakers, we had these huge bass reflex type cabinets that
measured roughly three feet by four by two feet deep and a jukebox in the
basement. For turntables I remember we had one of those auto changer 45's, the
turntable for 78's and 33's I wasn't allowed to touch ;~)) Saturday nights our
windows shook to
with everything from Harry Belafonte to Stanley Holloway. I kept one of those
speakers until 1974 when it finally fried the woofer.
Betsy Egan
Ronnie McKinley wrote:
> The biggest sound that sticks in my head from those days was the sound
> of Radio Luxembourg. Under the blankets with a cheap Jap tranny
> listening to the top 20
No doubt listening to the
Kinks "Lola" ;^)
- Betsy