So, what have you been listening to lately?

[Alanko]

But I'm happy that you two are now exchanging recipes. Very wholesome.

I should post some wholesome Scottish food at this point.

[morrow]

Brother Jimmy was a bigger influence on the blues community here.

[uwe]

I should post some wholesome Scottish food at this point.

That ain't no haggis!

[Alanko]

There could be a haggis in there somewhere.

We do fry them and serve them with chips.

[uwe]

I like haggis. Mom taught us to eat innards too, liver, kidneys, brain and sweetbread/thymus (she loved that, I can still recollect the scent - some would say: smell - of the kitchen when she fried it). No tripe though, for whatever reason - I only learned to eat that at a business dinner with Italians, when I was the only one of the German delegation to finish the soup which contained it while my colleagues froze once they learned it wasn't 'chicken skin' at all, that impressed the Italians more than anything I contributed legally to that meeting. They probably thought this guy will do anything for us.

[OldManC]

This whole album has my brain arguing that I'm in the summer of 1982. It won't be everyone's cup of tea, but it's right up my (teenage) alley.

[uwe]

They're too old for 1982, but I like it! Not only the singer's hair reminds one of Steve Perry though.

And I do detect chorus similarities with this gem here ...



Lots of hairspray was depleted in the making of this video.

[OldManC]

They're too old for 1982, but I like it! Not only the singer's hair reminds one of Steve Perry though.

I don't know about the singer, but the guitarist is around our age. (Maybe somewhere between us?) He was in King Cobra and then BulletBoys a couple times. He abruptly left earlier this year (the original lineup had a short lived reunion) and I wondered what he'd do next.

[uwe]

I meant that with their present age, they would be too old if you time-transported them back to 1982! Back then most AORish bands seemed to be between their early twenties and max. early thirties. In 1982, even Mick Jagger was 'only' 39 which made him ancient by then standards. I remember how the fact that the Dire Straits guys were all thirty or approaching thirty when their first album broke in 1978 was deemed worthy of mention in all rock mags. In reference to Knopfler's former day job they were called the "school teacher's band".

[Basvarken]

In reference to Knopfler's former day job they were called the "school teacher's band".

Maybe because they were dead boring to look (and listen) at.

[uwe]

That of course was always the criticism, but millions thought otherwise.

There was a time when I really disliked Dire Straits for being too ubiquitous - around Brothers in Arms, every track of that album was played to death, but these days I've made my peace with them. I never saw them, but I've seen Knopfler. He's no showman, but his guitar playing and the musical storytelling are nice to listen to. It's a bit like going to a Pink Floyd gig, the 'action' on stage won't excite you, to put it mildly. There is a light show to look at though. 

[Dave W]

After posting a live Cream video a few pages back, this popped up in my YT recommendations.

[uwe]

Nice, Bruce's bass lines always have a natural flow.

[Highlander]

I should post some wholesome Scottish food at this point...

FFS... lol
Found a chippy in Stornoway last week selling deep fried Oreo's... The Scots will deep fry just about anything...

[Dave W]