Free Association Thread 5

[Handley_Page]

Maybe do what we did back in the 1970's? Add a set of expensive chrome rims with white letter tires and some pin-stripping. We called it West Virginia speed equipment...guaranteed to add at least ten horsepower.

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I understood white-wall tyres to be referred to as "snowballs", but I got that from a comic and do not know the origin of the writer. !
"Go-faster tape" (black & white chequer-board pattern) was at one time the ultimate trim.
My version of "improvements" was an alarm and a decent aerial. . . .

And in the UK back in the 1960s we'd take an Austin 7 chassis and add a sexy alloy or fibreglass body to make it look like a modern sports car.

The ancient skinny wheels gave it away. So did the maximum speed of 45 mph.

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/9d/01/bd/9d01bd252223b0127f2df0d4169e85e5--handmade-buses.jpg

We can still buy kits to do something similar today. The Lomax Trike is really a Citroen 2CV:

http://www.3wheelers.com/aclomax.jpg

And the Lomax is still as slow as a 2CV!

I wonder if these are still about ?
I'd love one.

 

[oggbashan]

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I wonder if these are still about ?
I'd love one.

They are. Apart from getting a specialist insurer they are cheap to run. Even the insurance isn't expensive because the performance is nil. A Reliant Robin is faster than either of them...

Weather protection? Carry an umbrella.

 

[JKendallDane]

I understood white-wall tyres to be referred to as "snowballs", but I got that from a comic and do not know the origin of the writer. !
"Go-faster tape" (black & white chequer-board pattern) was at one time the ultimate trim.
My version of "improvements" was an alarm and a decent aerial. . . .

My big improvement during the 1970's was adding a 102" stainless steel whip antenna for my CB radio. I lost count of all the fast food drive-thru covers I scraped the crap out of.


I wonder if these are still about ?
I'd love one.

We had similar "kit cars" over here. This one was probably the most ridiculous:

http://www.imcdb.org/i045610.jpg

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[latecomer91364]

We had similar "kit cars" over here. This one was probably the most ridiculous:

http://www.imcdb.org/i045610.jpg

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All this talk about cars reminds me of:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515SnZZEnTL.jpg

 

[JKendallDane]

All this talk about cars reminds me of:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515SnZZEnTL.jpg

I'm sure there is a "four-on-the-floor" or "laying rubber" line in that photo, but I'll just let them slip by.

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[Handley_Page]

All this talk about cars reminds me of:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515SnZZEnTL.jpg

Who's the artist ?

 

[latecomer91364]

Who's the artist ?

That's Alberto Vargas, long-time pin-up artist, noted for all his work in 'Playboy'.

Please excuse that I'm Free Associating off of myself right now, but have you heard this?

Don't You Forget About Me - Paul Stone

This is FUCKING AWESOME! I like it better than the original (but I'm a huge Big Band fan)!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpYgIytY1CI

 

[Handley_Page]

That's Alberto Vargas, long-time pin-up artist, noted for all his work in 'Playboy'.

Please excuse that I'm Free Associating off of myself right now, but have you heard this?

Don't You Forget About Me - Paul Stone

This is FUCKING AWESOME! I like it better than the original (but I'm a huge Big Band fan)!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpYgIytY1CI

That was a Vargas ? - Wow!
I must be loosing my touch; I normally recognise his work.
I rather like the pin-ups of Gil Elvgren

Big Band - oh Yes please.
Hear Ted Heath at Carnegie Hall ?

 

[latecomer91364]

That was a Vargas ? - Wow!
I must be loosing my touch; I normally recognise his work.
I rather like the pin-ups of Gil Elvgren

Big Band - oh Yes please.
Hear Ted Heath at Carnegie Hall ?

Loved that - Haven't seen the name of the late Ronnie Verrell for a while. Great drummer, not widely known in the states.

My favorite of those carrying on the Big Band tradition is Gordon Doodwin - I can spot his arrangements from a mile away, just like you could with Nelson Riddle. Chose this one for the beautiful work of Eddie Dabiels on clarinet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiOUjtfGp2E&index=44&list=PLoIQEr7Oj68LtMCFU5-UbasosNgkeIr2z

 

[Handley_Page]

Loved that - Haven't seen the name of the late Ronnie Verrell for a while. Great drummer, not widely known in the states.

My favorite of those carrying on the Big Band tradition is Gordon Doodwin - I can spot his arrangements from a mile away, just like you could with Nelson Riddle. Chose this one for the beautiful work of Eddie Dabiels on clarinet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiOUjtfGp2E&index=44&list=PLoIQEr7Oj68LtMCFU5-UbasosNgkeIr2z

A lot of those tunes were marked "Video blocker in country", which is a shame 'cos that was bloody good!
But I found this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT_WRVzD3XI

Well, the 'States had good drummers, (Krupa, Rich, et al), so I doubt they needed to know much about 'our' English kinds of swing music.

 

[latecomer91364]

A lot of those tunes were marked "Video blocker in country", which is a shame 'cos that was bloody good!
But I found this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT_WRVzD3XI

Well, the 'States had good drummers, (Krupa, Rich, et al), so I doubt they needed to know much about 'our' English kinds of swing music.

That's a great tune - sorry to hear so much is not available.

This guy, German bassist Peter Trunk, was awesome. Unfortunately, by the end of the year this album came out and I had bought it (I found it by buying European albums having no clue who the artists were, just to see what people were doing over there), the phenominal talent was killed in an automobile accident - 12-31-73.

There's a discordant break midway through the second song 'I will Give You All My Love' (just after the electric piano solo) that, as it slowly resolves, is as close to a sheer musical orgasm as anything I've ever heard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQc-D9ty15E

 

[SamScribble]

That's a great tune - sorry to hear so much is not available.

This guy, German bassist Peter Trunk, was awesome. Unfortunately, by the end of the year this album came out and I had bought it (I found it by buying European albums having no clue who the artists were, just to see what people were doing over there), the phenominal talent was killed in an automobile accident - 12-31-73.

There's a discordant break midway through the second song 'I will Give You All My Love' (just after the electric piano solo) that, as it slowly resolves, is as close to a sheer musical orgasm as anything I've ever heard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQc-D9ty15E

I 'discovered' European jazz sometime in the early 1970s when a friend who knew that I was a Thelonius Monk fan took me to see Eberhard Weber playing with Charlie Mariano, Rainer Bruninghause, and Jon Christensen. Great band.

 

[MagicaPractica]

I 'discovered' European jazz sometime in the early 1970s when a friend who knew that I was a Thelonius Monk fan took me to see Eberhard Weber playing with Charlie Mariano, Rainer Bruninghause, and Jon Christensen. Great band.

Thelonius Monk! Those were the days. *happysigh*

 

[Handley_Page]

That's a great tune - sorry to hear so much is not available.

There's a discordant break midway through the second song 'I will Give You All My Love' (just after the electric piano solo) that, as it slowly resolves, is as close to a sheer musical orgasm as anything I've ever heard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQc-D9ty15E

Oh, Lordy; I've not heard this sort of music for far too long. . . . .

Thelonius Monk! Those were the days. *happysigh*

As difficult then as now to my ear.
Now MJQ, that's different.

 

[latecomer91364]

Oh, Lordy; I've not heard this sort of music for far too long. . . . .




As difficult then as now to my ear.
Now MJQ, that's different.

I tend to respect Monk's type of 'outside' playing more than I want to listen to very much of it - it's why I prefer Charlie Parker to John Coltrane - I just can't take too much of 'playing against the harmony'. Of that era, Miles Davis caught me the most: beautiful and accessible. He and Bird are my two all-time faves. Call me vanilla, but I like my jazz primarily 'inside'. I like my dissonances to have their resolutions close at hand.

In the nineties, we had a few 'retro swing bands' arise, probably the most well known was Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. Me, I was always a Cherry Poppin' Daddies fan, but they would only have a few tunes on any album with the (small) Big Band sound.

I like this one because of the dirty lyrics:

'Well with bloodshot eyes
I finally broke
I feel like I just had a stroke
We made a stain
She said my name
I drank a thousand beers for that dame'

There are better Big Band examples (but I just love this tune - it's more like swinging early Rock n' Roll Boogie-Woogie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6zTPg1NPvc

 

[Handley_Page]

I tend to respect Monk's type of 'outside' playing more than I want to listen to very much of it - it's why I prefer Charlie Parker to John Coltrane - I just can't take too much of 'playing against the harmony'. Of that era, Miles Davis caught me the most: beautiful and accessible. He and Bird are my two all-time faves. Call me vanilla, but I like my jazz primarily 'inside'. I like my dissonances to have their resolutions close at hand.

In the nineties, we had a few 'retro swing bands' arise, probably the most well known was Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. Me, I was always a Cherry Poppin' Daddies fan, but they would only have a few tunes on any album with the (small) Big Band sound.

I like this one because of the dirty lyrics:

'Well with bloodshot eyes
I finally broke
I feel like I just had a stroke
We made a stain
She said my name
I drank a thousand beers for that dame'

There are better Big Band examples (but I just love this tune - it's more like swinging early Rock n' Roll Boogie-Woogie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6zTPg1NPvc

I ain't heard that sort of music since the late 50s.
That was quite a reminder
You heard of Zoot Money's Big Roll Band ?

 

[latecomer91364]

I ain't heard that sort of music since the late 50s.
That was quite a reminder
You heard of Zoot Money's Big Roll Band ?

Not familiar with them at all, but I loved the cut, and the few that automatically played afterward. I had to stop and Google them, because as the song went on, I started to wonder if I was listening to Eric Burden - very similar, especially when they start riffing vocally. Great band. I don't think they got much American radio play, if any.

You Brits did produce a great roster of soulful wailers back then, and this guy, may he Rest In Peace, was one of the greatest - leader of the best live band I've ever seen; this is my absolute favorite live recording ever (I do love a tease and a surprise). A week can't go by without me playing this at least once:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw5qkBnexiM

 

[Handley_Page]

Not familiar with them at all, but I loved the cut, and the few that automatically played afterward. I had to stop and Google them, because as the song went on, I started to wonder if I was listening to Eric Burden - very similar, especially when they start riffing vocally. Great band. I don't think they got much American radio play, if any.

You Brits did produce a great roster of soulful wailers back then, and this guy, may he Rest In Peace, was one of the greatest - leader of the best live band I've ever seen; this is my absolute favorite live recording ever (I do love a tease and a surprise). A week can't go by without me playing this at least once:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw5qkBnexiM

Oh, nice !
The style reminds me of how good Jazz is done; everyone having a bit to play and doing it well.

 

[latecomer91364]

Oh, nice !
The style reminds me of how good Jazz is done; everyone having a bit to play and doing it well.

(probably a good time to do some Free Associating)

A good part of many forms of art depend on people relying on each other and paying attention, as the presentation depends upon their focused cooperation, as evidenced by people like these folks:

http://www.appliedneuroscienceinstitute.com/images/uploads/Trapeze.JPG

 

[SamScribble]

(probably a good time to do some Free Associating)

A good part of many forms of art depend on people relying on each other and paying attention, as the presentation depends upon their focused cooperation, as evidenced by people like these folks:

http://www.appliedneuroscienceinstitute.com/images/uploads/Trapeze.JPG

'Save the gas, Wilbur. We're flying!'

 

[JKendallDane]

'Save the gas, Wilbur. We're flying!'

Will that be smoking or non-smoking?

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[SamScribble]

Will that be smoking or non-smoking?

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'Coffee, tea, or me, sir?'

 

[latecomer91364]

'Coffee, tea, or me, sir?'

Is it 'Boeing Boeing' or 'Boing Boing'?

 

[Handley_Page]

It sometimes goes "Boing" when it hits the ground a bit too hard.

An airline pilot wrote that on this particular flight he had hammered his ship into the runway really hard. The airline had a policy which required the first officer to stand at the door while the passengers exited, smile, and give them a "Thanks for flying our airline".
He said that, in light of his bad landing, he had a hard time looking the passengers in the eye, thinking that someone would have a smart comment.
Finally everyone had gotten off except for a little old lady walking with a cane.
She said, "Sir, do you mind if I ask you a question?"
"Why, no Ma'am," said the pilot. "What is it ?"

The little old lady said, "Did we land, or were we shot down?"

 

[JKendallDane]

It sometimes goes "Boing" when it hits the ground a bit too hard.

An airline pilot wrote that on this particular flight he had hammered his ship into the runway really hard. The airline had a policy which required the first officer to stand at the door while the passengers exited, smile, and give them a "Thanks for flying our airline".
He said that, in light of his bad landing, he had a hard time looking the passengers in the eye, thinking that someone would have a smart comment.
Finally everyone had gotten off except for a little old lady walking with a cane.
She said, "Sir, do you mind if I ask you a question?"
"Why, no Ma'am," said the pilot. "What is it ?"

The little old lady said, "Did we land, or were we shot down?"

I had a similar scenario back in the early '80s. We were in a 727 and landing at Chicago Midway for a connection. About 300 feet off the runway the plane did a sudden intense roll to the left which then came with an equally hard roll back to the right. At that point the engines went to what sounded like full power and the nose dipped far more than had on any other final approach I'd been through. We hit the runway hard and fast enough that you just knew the pilot was fighting with the plane to keep it under any kind of control.

As we deplaned a few minutes later the pilot was at the exit and the guy in front of me sarcastically said, "Nice landing, Captain."

The pilot grinned and said, "Yeah," then turned very serious when he realized we both had more than a couple thousand miles of flying under our belts. "Let's just put it this way...I started flying in Nam, been at it for almost 20 years now. We got slapped with an 80mph wind shear and that is the closest to crashing I ever want to come again. I'm still not sure how I got the bird down in one piece. I'm just thankful we didn't blow the tires."

I'm still not sure I appreciated his honesty.

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