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The Outpost Cafe / Band of Brothers ...
« on: February 10, 2023, 09:26:02 AM »
https://www.loudersound.com/news/roger-waters-seeks-legal-advice-on-incendiary-tweet-by-david-gilmours-partner-polly-samson-calling-waters-antisemitic-to-your-rotten-core-gilmour-says-accusation-is-demonstrably-true?utm_source=Selligent&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=YPG_NWL&utm_content=YPG_NWL_Automated_Airedale_Final&utm_term=2336264&m_i=RD%2Bc_Kbmo%2B5tzEJfb1GIRtW4R3utY6q48LRp4R7v1FlNgxYSP8wsWvsvxRrgCR3SBDs_QqXGsIlKv03RrbBFelhN8UtDaUJaM5rrPhWFRn&lrh=199007781f3533110f3accf4bc0e44864279d3c418099568635739e9512e596e&M_BT=2729425703832

"Sadly you are antisemitic to your rotten core Roger Waters. Also a Putin apologist and a lying, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching, misogynistic, sick-with-envy, megalomaniac. Enough of your nonsense."

Well, I'm glad that Polly aka Ms Gilmour didn't character-assassinate Roger or anything like that! A little even-handed, constructive criticism can go a long way to rescue a friendship.








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The Outpost Cafe / Burt Bacharach
« on: February 09, 2023, 10:03:10 AM »
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/feb/09/burt-bacharach-

Call me a wuss, I really liked his elegant songwriting.




(Talk about an expressive bass sound!  :mrgreen: )






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The Outpost Cafe / On the subject of weather ...
« on: February 05, 2023, 02:06:52 PM »


Does give new meaning to the term Chinese dumpling ...   :popcorn:

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Rickenbacker Basses / No worries, liebe Ricsters - they like it ...
« on: February 02, 2023, 10:28:15 AM »

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The Outpost Cafe / Mama, I'm Staying Home ...
« on: February 02, 2023, 10:06:50 AM »
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/feb/01/ozzy-osbourne-to-retire-from-touring-due-to-declining-health

Makes sense/was inevitable - I wasn't expecting him to get back on his touring feet in any case, men his age shouldn't fool around with quads, not much protection there. Don't want to see him die or in constant pain on a tour bus either. Saw him three-times: once with Randy, once with Zakk, once with his fellow Brummies.

End of a long shift, bats and pigeons can now breathe a sigh of relief!  :mrgreen:


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The Outpost Cafe / Tom Verlaine ...
« on: January 29, 2023, 08:06:49 AM »
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jan/29/tom-verlaine-television-perfectionist-guitar-genius-always-kept-punk-guessing

His band Television had their Andy Warhol 15-minutes of fame when the English music press gushed over them in 1977 upon the release of their debut Marquee Moon. (Being an item with Patti Smith for a while also helped.)



To my ears they were extremely NYCish, you could hear the Velvet Underground influence, but at the same time you hear a whole lot of Tom Verlaine's music in The Pretenders (especially in Chrissie Hynde's singing) and The Strokes, also in REM. Not so much fathers of Punk (Television were known for keeping their guitars undistorted), but fathers of Indie Rock.

Verlaine's naive, yet questing and sometimes daring guitar playing defied convention (there's two lead guitarists on the album, the one  stumbling on more bum notes is Verlaine  ;) ) and the whole album had the feeling of an elegy that just drew you in.

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The Outpost Cafe / Big Effing Deal ...
« on: December 14, 2022, 05:44:02 AM »
In the tradition of the LBO's unwavering dedication to the pursuit and wonders of science ...





So they have finally done it.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/13/us-scientists-confirm-major-breakthrough-in-nuclear-fusion

Interesting. :popcorn: Where will all the necessary gold for cladding the hohlräume (Now there's a German word for you! It means hollow space.) come from? And what happens to all the thus produced helium, will it just dissipate into Space? I know next to nothing about this stuff, but one of my class mates from way back has been doing research on it for all his professional life (he lives and works in Scandinavia) and I remember how he told me a some years ago at a 'Class of 79' reunion we held about a major breakthrough being imminent in the nex few years. Guess Andreas was right.

Here are some answers to other lingering questions you - like me - might have (Is there radioactivity? Can it start a chain reaction turning Earth into a flaming sun?):

https://www.iaea.org/topics/energy/fusion/faqs


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The Outpost Cafe / A songbird gone ...
« on: November 30, 2022, 03:30:16 PM »
Auf Wiedersehen Christine, you English rose ...

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/nov/30/fleetwood-macs-christine-mcvie-dies-at-age-79





A young Christine with her hands on an organ.






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The Outpost Cafe / Wilko’s gone back home …
« on: November 23, 2022, 06:57:34 AM »
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/nov/23/wilko-johnson-dies-aged-75

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV0yYcN9QnE&list=RDvV0yYcN9QnE

No one jerked a sound from the Tele like he did.



A lifelong friend and supporter of all things botanic nature as well.


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The Outpost Cafe / Oops …
« on: November 11, 2022, 08:54:29 AM »
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/10/kfc-apologises-for-kristallnacht-chicken-and-cheese-promotion

Ouch. Seems like the Colonel has rather antiquated views on German celebrations. A shattering mishap.


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The Outpost Cafe / Dan McCafferty ...
« on: November 08, 2022, 06:52:27 PM »
No more Razamanaz, pity. When back in the 70ies someone gave me a tape with that album, it seemed to me the rawest and wildest, yet still melodic music I had thus far heard.



I always loved his broken voice. And he wasn't just a screamer.





Joni Mitchell was a great sport when she announced her own This Flight Tonight at a London gig with "And now I'm gonna play a Nazareth song!"



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The Outpost Cafe / Birmingham's Finest ...
« on: November 07, 2022, 07:40:55 AM »
Finally. And the proper way to do it with all ex-members included in the live performance, whether they left 43 years ago (drummer Les Binks) or haven been involved in a war of words with the band more lately (KK Downing, who now has a slightly taller Flying V wielding twin-baby-brother on stage).

They obviously picked the live performance songs so that Glenn Tipton, handicapped by Parkinson's disease, could still play along. Heart-warming.

Having this guy from Detroit induct you genially is of course the icing on the metal cake.



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The Outpost Cafe / Scott of Thunder, have you ordered yet?
« on: September 29, 2022, 07:53:03 AM »
https://www.amazon.com/All-World-Stage-Slade/dp/B0B69FS758/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3AR3IC119MI6U&keywords=slade+all+the+world+is+a+stage+box+set&qid=1664462881&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIwLjAwIiwicXNhIjoiMC4wMCIsInFzcCI6IjAuMDAifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=slade+all+the+world+i%2Caps%2C364&sr=8-1


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The Outpost Cafe / Uh-oh ...
« on: August 17, 2022, 02:26:20 PM »
This always goes terribly wrong in movies ...

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/aug/16/de-extinction-scientists-are-planning-the-multimillion-dollar-resurrection-of-the-tasmanian-tiger

Breeding a complex mammal from a few DNA remnants? I believe it when I see it and can pat it on the head, cute little zebra dog or whatever it is.

Reminds me of this movie here ...



... which was a pleasure to see because for once Dafoe was not typecast as the villain or nutcase, but as a man initially just doing his job and learning to have second thoughts about it. The CGI for the Tasmanian Tiger is nothing to write home about (you don't even see it in the trailer and for good reason too), but the movie has other aims and strengths.

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The Outpost Cafe / Olivia ...
« on: August 08, 2022, 06:18:28 PM »
She deserves a spot here. Some legacy.












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