tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post3044537093651091641..comments2024-02-23T08:40:24.961+00:00Comments on Yes It's Number One: Put yourself in the picture: the other lotUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-16154062673745596672011-09-11T21:51:31.419+01:002011-09-11T21:51:31.419+01:00Oh, I didn't mean to cast aspersions - just pa...Oh, I didn't mean to cast aspersions - just passing on the info in case, as he doesn't seem to be as much a name that'd be on everybody's lips these days, as he was then. (Sorry!)<br /><br />Typos always make great comic capital anyway: Milligan loved referring to himself as 'Spine Milligna, the well-known typing error', The Burkiss Way did it non-stop (Mr. Smoth, Miss Jobes, etc), and I still cherish an apparently real newspaper headline, 'Let the people snig!'. Not sure if that was even the Guardian/Grauniad, either.Adam Maunder (in abject remorse)http://getoffmyfoot.tumblr.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-50212473515117646832011-09-11T11:20:34.697+01:002011-09-11T11:20:34.697+01:00of course i know who chick corea is - that was jus...of course i know who chick corea is - that was just my way of having a little fun at the expense of a typo error...wilberforcehttp://www.gavinunderhill.co.uk/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-27475466930013364882011-09-10T23:12:58.279+01:002011-09-10T23:12:58.279+01:00Much as I hate to agree with anything Elton John e...Much as I hate to agree with anything Elton John ever says or does, he did say on the Whistle Test retrospective series on Radio 2 the other week that he thought the show was an incomparable archive of the rock sounds around/available at the time, and I think that is probably going to be its continued relevance, and use, as time goes on.<br /><br />My familiarity with it stems from the bits & pieces my father managed to tape during its lifespan; he acquired a VCR in 1979, so there's a fair bit of great - as well as crap - stuff I've seen. Ian Dury live at the Hackney Empire (I think?), that performance of Lynyrd Skynyrd doing 'Free Bird' at Knebworth that they repeated ad bloody nauseam, Stillwater (the band immortalised in Cameron Crowe's 'Almost Famous', whom many people assumed to be fictional - nope, they existed alright), and plenty of footage of ski-ing accompanying 'Tubular Bells', and other such nonsense.<br /><br />David Quantick wrote an excellent - of course - piece in Uncut a month or two ago which covered the whole thing rather nicely, and Kershaw, as ever, came over sounding like a right knob. In fairness to him, his Radio 1 show did used to include a good range of stuff in addition to the African sounds he's best known for championing. Certainly, the name Barrence Whitfield would mean even less than it generally does were it not for his endorsement. Ivor Cutler, too.<br /><br />Yup - from Camel to Blondie, and from Rory Gallagher to Robyn Hitchcock, you could never say there wasn't something for everyone on the Test. In reference to y'all's comments: if you don't know him, Chick Corea was one of the names that the rock press liked to bang on about in the 70s because he was seen to be using jazz in a new way (i.e, fusion), and Noax - I have to say I really didn't notice the pun onslaught in that piece, which maybe suggests I oughta lay off the Denis Norden for a bit. He says there's a medical condition whereby people incurably make them in any given situation; I don't think I'm quite there yet, but with QI back on, I might not last the winter!Adam Maunderhttp://getoffmyfoot.tumblr.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-46539458255560503002011-09-09T19:31:46.666+01:002011-09-09T19:31:46.666+01:00I haven't got much to say about Whistle Test i...I haven't got much to say about Whistle Test itself as by the time I got to the stage where I might be into some of the music on it, it seemed to be Andy Kershaw going 'And now, Pere Ubu!' or 'The wonderful Bhundu Boys!' every single week.<br /><br />What I will say is that the sheer number of puns in that article almost made my eyes bleed.Noaxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-15002169809947915962011-09-09T15:20:33.745+01:002011-09-09T15:20:33.745+01:00More beards!
I always found it funny that the ter...More beards!<br /><br />I always found it funny that the term ‘old grey whistle test’ referred to a song being a hit if your grey-coated doorman remembered the tune and whistled it. I’d love it if a doorman remembered the tune to anything by Captain Beefheart, for example (though not meant as a slur on the man – a mate asked if I fancied going to a Beefheart tribute gig by Robyn Hitchcock earlier this year, not my usual bag, but I thoroughly enjoyed it).<br /><br />Like ‘TOTP’, ‘OGWT’ held an important place in BBC TV’s music scheduling and added a few different colours to the musical palette. More likely to be the sort of thing your older brother or sister would be into if you were a glam rock teenie at the time, but I liked to watch every now and again (when my parents were asleep and I had control of the push-buttons) and get a handle on the mellow West Coast stylings and those ‘serious’ artists who’d stand as much chance on getting on ‘TOTP’ as Robert Wyatt - er, hang on...Arthur Nibblenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-21182793599865920602011-09-09T14:38:58.144+01:002011-09-09T14:38:58.144+01:00is there no end to the conveyor belt of talent tha...is there no end to the conveyor belt of talent that is the coren family? first alan, then offspring giles and victoria - and now it seems musical cousin chick...wilberforcehttp://www.gavinunderhill.co.uk/noreply@blogger.com