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15 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

I just woke up to see a few messages on my phone about Barrie's passing.

Tragic loss and just as they were wrapping up their farewell tour.

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Nostalgia alert!  I never saw the film  That Summer!  but did have a copy of its legendary soundtrack on vinyl, which included Eddie & the Hot  Rods' 'Do Anything You Wanna Do".  I didn't even realise it was a film soundtrack until years later.  Fantastic compilation album which became very sought-after, and was never afaik released on CD.

 

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Ian Dury And The Blockheads

Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

Mink DeVille

Spanish Stroll

Elvis Costello

(I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea

The Boomtown Rats

She's So Modern

Zones

New Life

The Only Ones

Another Girl, Another Planet

Wreckless Eric

Whole Wide World

Patti Smith Group

Because The Night

The Boomtown Rats

Kicks

Ramones

Rockaway Beach

The Undertones

Teenage Kicks

Eddie And The Hot Rods

Do Anything You Wanna Do

Ian Dury And The Blockheads

What A Waste

Nick Lowe

I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass

Elvis Costello

Watching The Detectives

Richard Hell & The Voidoids

Blank Generation

     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
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Kim Shattuck of The Muffs has passed away after a 2 year battle with ALS.

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10 minutes ago, Phantom said:

Kim Shattuck of The Muffs

If that isn't made up, it should have been.

 

*Not having a pop Phantom, my lack of knowledge about celebs is legendary.

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38 minutes ago, En Passant said:

If that isn't made up, it should have been.

 

*Not having a pop Phantom, my lack of knowledge about celebs is legendary.

She was the bass player and lead vocalist for The Muffs, and took over from Kim Deal in The Pixies.

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Here's a link confirming Kim Shattuck's death

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8 hours ago, Phantom said:

Here's a link confirming Kim Shattuck's death

Just woke up to this news,that was a horrible unavoidable tragedy a class act indeed. R.I.P. Kim you will be missed.:rip:.

 

 

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12 hours ago, Phantom said:

Kim Shattuck of The Muffs has passed away after a 2 year battle with ALS.

 

Oh god, that's really sad news. Loved the Pandoras and the Muffs and Kim was a really funny and great person. Could talk anyone off the planet (which is partly why she was kicked out of the Pixies) but she was so nice. Used to love hear her tales of why certain people 'left' certain bands (hi Melanie Vammen!), what Paula Pierce was really like and her recollections of the hair metal years when the Pandoras went hard rock.

 

RIP. Heaven will be a noisier place with you, and that's just you and your guitar.

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11 hours ago, Phantom said:

She was the bass player and lead vocalist for The Muffs, and took over from Kim Deal in The Pixies.

 

Guitar in the Muffs, bass in the Pandoras.

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20 hours ago, Phantom said:

Here's a link confirming Kim Shattuck's death

Really fucking sad, I absolutely adore the Muffs. R.I.P

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1 hour ago, YoungWillz said:

Molly Duncan, saxophonist and founding member of The Average White Band, dead after cancer battle: https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/4812559/average-white-band-death-malcolm-molly-duncan-cancer/

 

UK #6 1975 Pick Up The Pieces

 

 


My very first concert (embarrassing admissions, volume 1).  I was 14 I think, older sister dragged me.  They were actually the opening act.  I refuse to admit who the main act was.

SC

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16 minutes ago, Sir Creep said:


My very first concert (embarrassing admissions, volume 1).  I was 14 I think, older sister dragged me.  They were actually the opening act.  I refuse to admit who the main act was.

SC

Bay City Rollers?

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30 minutes ago, bladan said:

Bay City Rollers?


That would have been a virtue.  Who didn't love them circa 1974-77.  No not another Scots band.  Not sure how these two bands were associated, record label maybe.  I saw AWB in Ann Arbor, Michigan, about 1977.  That should help (assuming one can search that stuff ad infinitum online).

 

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48 minutes ago, Sir Creep said:


My very first concert (embarrassing admissions, volume 1).  I was 14 I think, older sister dragged me.  They were actually the opening act.  I refuse to admit who the main act was.

SC

 

Their big breathrough in the UK was supporting Eric Clapton at his "comeback" gig from heroin addiction (kind of ironic considering the AWB's subsequent drug misadventures)

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1 minute ago, maryportfuncity said:

 

Their big breathrough in the UK was supporting Eric Clapton at his "comeback" gig from heroin addiction (kind of ironic considering the AWB's subsequent drug misadventures)

AWB was ok really.  Schoolboy Crush of course a big song too.  At least they pushed the envelope on album covers along with Ohio Players and Roxy.

EDIT I take it back, I think AWB was the main act.  So not as appalling as I had thought.  Anyway, there you go, guilty admission.  Not exactly 'Led Zep was my first concert' kinda stuff....but hey.  

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@maryportfuncity the internet is a beautiful thing.  This is an amazing find.  It truly is.  I now have a write-up and a date of me first concert!  Guess we are letting the cat outta the bag.  Really, this made my fekkin day!
(oh, and aye, a write-up of a Corky Laing solo effort as lagniappe!)
SirC
https://digital.bentley.umich.edu/midaily/mdp.39015071754613/111
 

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10 minutes ago, Sir Creep said:

@maryportfuncity the internet is a beautiful thing.  This is an amazing find.  It truly is.  I now have a write-up and a date of me first concert!  Guess we are letting the cat outta the bag.  Really, this made my fekkin day!
(oh, and aye, a write-up of a Corky Laing solo effort as lagniappe!)
SirC
https://digital.bentley.umich.edu/midaily/mdp.39015071754613/111
 

 

 

There's a mention in that review of K.C. and the Sunshine Bard - fuck knows, disco takes on Shakespearean speeches, that'd have been amazing!

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9 minutes ago, maryportfuncity said:

 

 

There's a mention in that review of K.C. and the Sunshine Bard - fuck knows, disco takes on Shakespearean speeches, that'd have been amazing!


Whole new meaning to touring the Globe.

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1 hour ago, Sir Creep said:

@maryportfuncity the internet is a beautiful thing.  This is an amazing find.  It truly is.  I now have a write-up and a date of me first concert!  Guess we are letting the cat outta the bag.  Really, this made my fekkin day!
(oh, and aye, a write-up of a Corky Laing solo effort as lagniappe!)
SirC
https://digital.bentley.umich.edu/midaily/mdp.39015071754613/111
 

 

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Sorry, there are no songs in this setlist yet, but ...

If you were there then
add whatever song you remember!

And you might also get help in the
setlist request forum

 

 

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/average-white-band/1977/crisler-arena-ann-arbor-mi-43f967a3.html

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RIP Molly

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55 minutes ago, Book said:

The winner of the 14. season of "Deutschland sucht den Superstar" (Pop Idol Germany), American born Alphonso Williams, died yesterday of prostate cancer at age 57.

https://www.bz-berlin.de/welt/dsds-sieger-alphonso-williams-ist-tot  (link in German)

Wow, that was quick!

I read yesterday that he had been in hospital for some time. But his family said he was doing "okay". Guess not.

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