Gems
Rock and Roll
Daniele Procida
A fantastic recovery
1eqfyez.qd26gts73zgyN%{$usenet$}@apple-juice.co.uk
Sun, 18 Mar 2001 01:42:00 GMT
I have just returned from a party and happened to fins my iMac still on. Anyway, I have just made a fantastic discoverty. A vlinding revelation hit me thins evening. You know how it is when you go tot one of those parties and someone hets a guitar or two out and starts singings the famous somnebgs? Well, firstly,m there;'s ths question of exactly which somgs. Yes, Bob Marlet. White guys singing about sitting in the government compund in Town. No irony. Yes, REN. English guys singng about having a soul that vibrates in sympathiy with that f Andy Kaufman. No iron. Yes, yes yes. All those songs taht ewven if you had bo intesrest in music and didn't evbem like it very much, you would have heard and so on. Anyway; those songs., So, that's what was bneing sung on the huitars. I didn';t ebvenm know that most of thoise songs had second verses. Shit. Did Van Morrison and Crowded house write second verses? Fuck me, I though t they just wrote an oipeing line and a chorus in G. It turns out not; they did indeed write second verses, and even sometimes third verses and middle eights,. This is not the revelartion. The fantastic discovery. (Though it is certainly interesting to know these facts of secnd verses, yes?) This is the good bit. OK, who was singing? The two guysa with the guitars , yes. (One looking like a Swedisjh heavy metal band person with correct hair, t-shirt and tattoo and bone structure and the thing of tossing his head back for his long heairt that I also did wjhen I was 16 and had long hair. And one baldy one. But what was amazing was that they did all the correct voices when singinb - Bob <Marley, American, David Bowie, Mic Jaghgar, etc etc ect all from these two guys. I was beginning to wander, what vouices did they have when not singing? Any voice at all, or only famous borrowed popstar voices? I didn't talk to them because i was admirinbg their hair. (And someone picnched my arse at this party, but I couldn't wpork out who did it. Probably the samshed guy n the sofa, not the pretty girl that I uimagine I was supposed to imagine who did it. Who incidentally alsoi had a boyfiren d with the correct swedish heavy metal hair etc. A lot of them about, surprisingly since not raelly that kind if party))). Anyway, what I was sasying. Who was singing? SInging along, I mean? This is the rveelkaytion: only epeople over a certain bodyweight nod and sing along appreciatively for this kind 0f party-strumming. The thin people do not like it, or the smaller ones. They rtalk to each other opr somoje cigarrets. But the biigger ones, with big bones or just fattish, know all the second verses, can do the voices and are even prpared to do appreciative backing vocals. Please observe at parytoies in future to corroborate this analysis. Fat/big people are into unavoidable music. Small/thin ones refrain from participation. A genuinely new observation
Nigel C. Eastmond
Re: A fantastic recovery
nigel-FCC0D8.08483518032001@news.freeserve.net
18 Mar 2001 08:48:47 GMT
In article <1eqfyez.qd26gts73zgyN%{$usenet$}@apple-juice.co.uk>, Daniele Procida wrote:
So what you are saying is that you are a lardy. <looks round at others> I did get the point of that, didn't I?
Peter Ceresole
Re: A fantastic recovery
B6DA404D96681CD6F@cara.demon.co.uk
Sun, 18 Mar 2001 10:37:01 +0000
In article <1eqgmy6.h0qbagty0voN%{$usenet$}@apple-juice.co.uk>,
Daniele Procida wrote:
>Daniele Procida <{$usenet$}@apple-juice.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> I have just returned from a party
>
>Oh my God.
>
>You have my apologies for that.
That's okay. It's not every day we can go on a roller coaster ride before
breakfast.