The Pooka

If Jenny Michelmore's post is genuine, and I see no need to doubt it, is this the first post by either the topic of a DL thread or their relative? Its certainly very sporting of her to join the dicussion and I look forward to hearing from Cliff. I do hope he's lost that comb-over.

I saw a picture of Todd the other day - looks good considering that the Nazz song that I have is 1968 which makes him something like 58.

The picture is most worrying. he looks so pale. It seems a thousand years ago that he recorded 'Kung Fu Fighting'. He cannot have long to go.

I think I must have posted this in the wrong place..... For all his whingeing about slaving for bread etc. surely Desmond knew that he'd get it if he really wants. The aficionado would argue that the Israelites was pretty easy to understand compared to some songs: You think I never see you when you jump over de wall You think I never see you when you accidently fall me said a it mek - mek you pop yu bitta gall a it mek - while you accidently fall a it mek - hear she crying fe ice water aah -aah- aah I check you out and you're cold, girl I dig you out and you're cold, girl rock it to me children I told you once and I told you twice Wha' sweet nanny goat a go run him belly good me said a it mek - mek your pop yu bitta gall a it mek - while you accidently fall a it mek - hear she crying fe ice water It certainly makes me pop my bitter gall.

In Titus Groan, Mervyn Peake writes, that Titus' sister, Fuchsia, could with just a twist here and there have been beautiful. This, Bennett, could be funny with just a twist here and there. In the same way it could be surreal. Keep trying.

For all his whingeing about slaving for bread etc. surely he knew that he'd get it if he really wants. The aficionado would argue that the Israelites was pretty easy to understand compared to some songs: You think I never see you when you jump over de wall You think I never see you when you accidently fall me said a it mek - mek you pop yu bitta gall a it mek - while you accidently fall a it mek - hear she crying fe ice water aah -aah- aah I check you out and you're cold, girl I dig you out and you're cold, girl rock it to me children I told you once and I told you twice Wha' sweet nanny goat a go run him belly good me said a it mek - mek your pop yu bitta gall a it mek - while you accidently fall a it mek - hear she crying fe ice water It certainly makes me pop my bitter gall.

Saw them live once ... with Tea and Symphony. Two really sound live acts. Is that a Harvest double bill? Have just found an image of Edgar Broughton. Male pattern baldness has obviously treated him unkindly. Still looks as if he rocks though. Unbelievably, I learn that Apache Dropout featured on Juke Box Jury with David Jacobs. I certainly recall the Mothers of Invention playing on JBJ and receiving a resounding 'miss'. Not sure when or what MOI song was played. 'Who are the Brain Police?' would have been appropriate. One of my favourite song titles.

I paid £2 to Mushroom records in 1970 for a copy of Death May be your Santa Claus by Second Hand. It never arrived. Years later I saw it valued at £800 (then later still for £50 which is probably more like it). Eventually I got it on E-bay from Russia on CD. After all those years the two tracks I wanted it for were on a totally different album. I used to see Vinegar joe in Dorchester where they seemed to appear monthly. The remnants of Dada including Elkie B and Robert Palmer. Tremendous vocalists. Sad to see him die and her appear in that thing with Tony Hadley et al. The site with the Edgar Broughton has videos of Beefheart, Zappa, Spooky Tooth, and VDGG with 'A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers' but not, alas, 'Killer'. Off to Google now. i must see whether edgar has changed a tad over the years.

Dickie is just a canvas upon which we paint.

Edgar Broughton!! Apache Dropout anyone? http://youtube.com/watch?v=y7mlz4_UcTc Seriously good though possibly a little homage to Beefheart there. Haven't heard this since the Sounds of the Seventies with Pete Drummond.

Not boring to me Pulphack. I believe that Van der Graaf Generator have been working again (they were a little puffed up but good); Quintessence; Spooky Tooth; Savoy Brown; Vinegar Joe; Second Hand; the names are surging through mymind. This is how Proust felt when he'd dunked his madeleine. An album I loved was Appletree Theatre - not on CD alas. And i haven't got on to West Coast US stuff yet. Off thread - yep sorry.

I've said this elsewhere but Michael Winner reports himself as having lost 3 and a half stone in months. Yet admits to cuttin back a tad on food but enjoying his ususal mainstays. He's about to publish a book 'The Greedy Pig's Diet'. Wouldn't it be ironic if his weight loss had nothing to do with diet. He may be diseased.... worth a punt.

Hail the omniscient Pulphack. Interesting to hear about TS McPhee. I wondered why he had morphed into a blueser. It all takes me back to less able performers...... nothineverappens, les flambeaux..... there's a thesis in here somewhere about minority progressive bands who didn't make it and must, I guess, have not been good enough to sustain a career. What became of them?

Blimey Pulphack - the Groundhogs. I was a proud owner of Split (a concept album with a rather vague concept). Top of the Pops introduced a 'progressive album' spot (Prog is a more recent term applied to the ELP types) in about 1971 and The Gs appeared doing Cherry Red in headphones looking very serious. I later saw them live in Barnstaple while on holiday. The legendary T S McPhee is still playing. Sad bastard that I am I googled him last year. Ifanyone asks what this free association has to do with DL, its that it confirms that TS McPhee is still eligible for the list. Will that do? Don't I remember Buster B, sport that he is, being rather amused that he was mentioned in DL last year.

Yes Pulphack. Well spotted, sir. Cannot imagine what obsessive process made me think of him - or of Peter, Ronnie and Maureen.

Hmmm, nice example Pook. I suppose you could say: "The ice did not all melt", which might be a little less clumsy. Ripping thread, have to say, at the expense of Mr Hitman. Tried to jump the fence on my motorbike but got caught at the Swiss Border and chucked back in the slammer. Ducked the old girl for a little dip (only a little one mind) in here and what do I find but a site plastered all over the place with vacuous comments from someone who dresses his posts in the pseudo sounding language of Noel Coward's lesser known brother Eric - the one who ran off with the milkman. Could I suggest a Lord Charles avatar, complete with monacle and Ray Alan's arm up his jacksie. Ray Alan is 76 incidentally, should watch out for vetriloquists. They die young (Shari Lewis, Jim Henson). Shari Lewis dead? Poor LambChop. Though if he inherited her estate he will, no doubt, be minted.

The Isle of Wight? Who'd have guessed it would end this way when he starred in Spartacus. I saw an interview with him on some obscure English cable channel (Open Access, I think), last year and Jack looked positively flushed with youth. Okay, I exaggerate obviously, but he looked totally compus mentus, although I have to sadly report that there didn't seem to be much evidence of his trademark twitch as he twattered on about how sad the state of modern comedy is today. He is indeed located on the Isle of Wight and there is a tree across the road from his bedroom window, which affords me a grand stalker's view- and I am happy to report that when changing for bed, his trademark twitch returns and provides me with so much laughter as I watch him wrestle his pyjamas around the bedroom that I sometimes fall out of the tree and bruise myself. Honest. Take care BHB. A similar innocent fascination with a former lover of Dickie O cost me my liberty.

...and to continue my assault on pedants who get it wrong, there is nothing wrong with split infinitives. No-one knows where the prejudice came from. Occasionally split infinitives sound clumsy but there' nothing grammatically or syntactically wrong. Indeed the whole sense of the sentence 'the ice failed to completely melt' changes if you unsplit the infinitive. Other than that I haven't the faintest clue what this thread is about.

Language pedants are usually plain wrong as well as being pompous. So let me join you. There is nothing at all wrong with starting a sentence with 'And'. I'd refer you to a number of texts such as 'The Complete Plain Words' by Sir Ernest Gowers but you seem a little niggly at present.

I am tipping Michal Winner for 2007. He's lost stones and is bragging about it every week in Winner's Dinners. He has now published a book;: 'The Greedy Pig Diet' or something like that. It will prove to be ironic if it were disease rather than the diet that 's been shedding the pounds. Know what i mean....? Have just read the thread title. Wrong place for my Michael Winner theory.

I am tipping Michal Winner for 2007. He's lost stones and is bragging about it every week in Winner's Dinners. He has now published a book;: 'The Greedy Pig Diet' or something like that. It will prove to be ironic if it were disease rather than the diet that 's been shedding the pounds. Know what i mean....?

The Isle of Wight? Who'd have guessed it would end this way when he starred in Spartacus.

I believe that he is the Chairman of Birmingham City these days.

I believe that, as MPFC states, Richard's health has improved. So, I have been increasingly disappointed that he hasn't made contact with us here. One begins to question his existence. (I felt the same way about God at one point: but then he appeared to me in a vision of red at a recent FA Cup Final.) A few years of wolfing egg custard with the likes of Charlie Drake and Bert Weedon in that super-heated geriatric home may have narrowed Dickie's horizons somewhat. We must get him out of that place. Only then can he resume his place at the altar of high culture. BHB - what is this about Jack Douglas. What a talent - is he still alive?

It was one my earlier incarnations: possibly my favourite. Here it is again. Peter's career was, alas, cut short by some over-enthusiastic onanism in a bus station in Leicester, I believe. I visited his web-site a year or so back but the link is now defunct. All I can recall is that he was born in France, issued an album that is a hoot and is now in Australia.