Free Association Thread 5

[latecomer91364]

You could always take them out to the channel for a little fishing and use them for bait.

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I watched the original 'Independence Day' a few weeks ago, and I remembered how back in the Nineties the audience cheered when the aliens blew up the White House (and that was under Clinton!). My, how things don't change...

 

[Handley_Page]

You could always take them out to the channel for a little fishing and use them for bait.

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I'm sure someone has a similar idea.
Perhaps we can practice with a few illegal, convicted imports.

 

[JKendallDane]

I'm sure someone has a similar idea.
Perhaps we can practice with a few illegal, convicted imports.

Practice makes perfect

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[SamScribble]

Practice makes perfect

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Ten thousand hours

 

[Handley_Page]

Ten thousand hours

416 days, ish ?
I don't know whether that includes night or overtime.

 

[JKendallDane]

416 days, ish ?
I don't know whether that includes night or overtime.

Roll Me Over in the Clover

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[latecomer91364]

Roll Me Over in the Clover

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpGEeneO-t0

 

[Handley_Page]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpGEeneO-t0

Now HERE'S a bloke that really delivered: Dobie Gray

 

[latecomer91364]

Now HERE'S a bloke that really delivered: Dobie Gray

(the link didn't work)

I presume it was for one of my favorites: 'Drift Away'. Most youngsters won't know about his lesser hit 'The In Crowd'. I haven't heard Dobie's original in many years, but our L.A. jazz station KJZZ plays Ramsey Lewis' version regularly.

 

[JKendallDane]

(the link didn't work)

I presume it was for one of my favorites: 'Drift Away'. Most youngsters won't know about his lesser hit 'The In Crowd'. I haven't heard Dobie's original in many years, but our L.A. jazz station KJZZ plays Ramsey Lewis' version regularly.

Three's a crowd

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[Handley_Page]

(the link didn't work)

I presume it was for one of my favorites: 'Drift Away'. Most youngsters won't know about his lesser hit 'The In Crowd'. I haven't heard Dobie's original in many years, but our L.A. jazz station KJZZ plays Ramsey Lewis' version regularly.

I have one of his LPs. I practically wore it out, then got a cassette tape recorder and wore that out. Lets try again, if only because it is a really nice record.

It's when he sings of "rhythm & rhyme & harmony" that I think too many of the modern twerps in the music biz have forgotten what it's about.

'The In Crowd' is a song which, over here, is more often associated with Brian Ferry.
A pity, but there it is.

 

[SamScribble]

'The In Crowd' is a song which, over here, is more often associated with Brian Ferry.
A pity, but there it is.

Funnily enough, I was just listening to the Jeff Lorber version of 'The In Crowd' - from the 'Kickin' It' album

 

[latecomer91364]

I have one of his LPs. I practically wore it out, then got a cassette tape recorder and wore that out. Lets try again, if only because it is a really nice record.

It's when he sings of "rhythm & rhyme & harmony" that I think too many of the modern twerps in the music biz have forgotten what it's about.

'The In Crowd' is a song which, over here, is more often associated with Brian Ferry.
A pity, but there it is.

Funnily enough, I was just listening to the Jeff Lorber version of 'The In Crowd' - from the 'Kickin' It' album

Never was huge on Roxy Music - 'More Than This' is a great, haunting song, but nothing else ever really wiggled into my brain.

For some reason, in my mind, I've always considered Drift Away to be married to this song (maybe the feel. I don't really know):

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

 

[Handley_Page]

Never was huge on Roxy Music - 'More Than This' is a great, haunting song, but nothing else ever really wiggled into my brain.

For some reason, in my mind, I've always considered Drift Away to be married to this song (maybe the feel. I don't really know):

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

I agree about Roxy Music; not my scene at all.
I'll take your Johhny Nash and raise you an Eddie Grant. Electric Avenue.

These were the ones that rose above the rest, to my mind.

 

[latecomer91364]

I agree about Roxy Music; not my scene at all.
I'll take your Johhny Nash and raise you an Eddie Grant. Electric Avenue.

These were the ones that rose above the rest, to my mind.

Ah yes... the reflections of seemingly more carefree, optimistic days. Love Eddie, and this precursor, which opened the previous decade, espousing in the first stanza an activity which is socially frowned upon now. Different days.

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

 

[JKendallDane]

Ah yes... the reflections of seemingly more carefree, optimistic days. Love Eddie, and this precursor, which opened the previous decade, espousing in the first stanza an activity which is socially frowned upon now. Different days.

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

Yep. Nowadays that verse would be "Have a drink, have a drive, get a DUI."

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[Handley_Page]

Ah yes... the reflections of seemingly more carefree, optimistic days. Love Eddie, and this precursor, which opened the previous decade, espousing in the first stanza an activity which is socially frowned upon now. Different days.

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

An original shoe-shuffle song !.

But now, I think I have some work to do with my newly-installed hard drive.
I'll be in the Lounge later on

 

[JKendallDane]

An original shoe-shuffle song !.

But now, I think I have some work to do with my newly-installed hard drive.
I'll be in the Lounge later on

Gotta get the hardware up so the software responds.

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[Handley_Page]

Gotta get the hardware up so the software responds.

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Well, the machine is certainly swifter, for some obscure reason.
But that might be the improved Graphics Card.

 

[SamScribble]

Well, the machine is certainly swifter, for some obscure reason.
But that might be the improved Graphics Card.

Drop in a V8!

 

[JKendallDane]

Drop in a V8!

Be careful of four-on-the-floor though. Laptops don't bounce well.

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[SamScribble]

Be careful of four-on-the-floor though. Laptops don't bounce well.

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I'm assuming that HP will also fit a limited-slip diff.

 

[Handley_Page]

I'm assuming that HP will also fit a limited-slip diff.

Well, it's performing like a W-12 for much of the time, although the old USB connection is a trifle slow at times (it's the next thing for update). I don't think it needs a limited-slip diff; it's limited enough at present.

But I'm working on it.

 

[JKendallDane]

Well, it's performing like a W-12 for much of the time, although the old USB connection is a trifle slow at times (it's the next thing for update). I don't think it needs a limited-slip diff; it's limited enough at present.

But I'm working on it.

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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[oggbashan]

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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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!