HEY, JOHN MAYALL'S COMING!
On the flight home from Wellington I had a really beautiful, interesting old lady beside me.
We talked about spiritualism, transvestites, people and places all
the way and had a meal together in Dunedin.
Quite incredible cos I never stopped running into people all welcoming me back, digging my new gear.
I ran into my friend Paddy and we talked about the Balclutha festival.
I like Paddy, he’s very beautiful. I really dig that guy.Next I ran into Jeff, just back from his holidays too. Jeff’s really rather cool too.
He has it hard too — his first day back at work and he gets told to get his hair cut and change his clothes to something conservative. Tonight I went with some friends to the Waikiwi pub and it was really quite a scene. Lots of people I know there.
One bloody guy made a nuisance of himself, sitting on the table. A great argument erupted and it very nearly ended in a fight.
It was all fuck this and fuck that and “this table is for glasses, nor arses”.About 10.30 we went to the RSA.
The Rumour’s gig was finishing but I grabbed Shade Smith and we talked in a little room backstage.
Shade’s very sick — thought he was going to die in Sydney the other day.
The interview wasn’t such a good scene cos I couldn’t get myself together at all after black russians and bacardis at the Waikiwi all night.
I kept asking things like “How many nights do you play tomorrow?”Afterwards we went off to our friend Mike’s party.
Looked like a bloody hippie pad with dark, dark purple light and figures sitting in a big circle on the floor and Paddy playing guitar, gentle and moody.
Russell’s girlfriend told me what a beautiful face and boobs (?) I have. John Mayall is going to Dunedin.
Graham and I were both rapt in him and his songs, so beautiful, became OURS. Counting the Days and Thinking of my Woman were so unreal.
He always said if Mayall ever came to Dunedin he’d buy tickets for everyone in the city to see him. Man, it knocks me out, that.I’m still getting the same story from guys about being mysterious and hard to know.
They’ve been saying that for years and that I am “fascinating” but “I can’t seem to get onto your level”.Graham was the only one who could.
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We will come back and talk about this in a day or two, boys and girls. I will take it that anyone I know who hearts or reblogs this is up for an assignment or two … … because holidays don’t go on forever, you know, and you’ve had a pretty good innings since last October with me being away.
A Yorkshireman's Cap
Yorkshire were playing Surrey at The Oval.A group of Yorkshiremen had taken the day off work and travelled down to see the match.It was one of those days of short sharp showers then sunshine.Everytime it started to rain all the Yorkshiremen took off their caps and put them under their coats,when the sun came out they put them back on again.
One of the Surrey fielders had watched this and during a break in the play he came across and spoke to one of them. “I cant help noticing that when it rains you take off your caps ,when the sun comes out you replace them . It’s left me in a state of puzzlement” (They’re posh who play for Surrey).
“Well it’s this way lad” answered the Yorkshireman ” Am in enough bother with the wife taking t’day off to see t’match ,If I go home and get into bed wearing a wet cap a’ll never hear end on it”
Hat tip to you, codger
Cloggo wears the cap under his top hat, you knowKarel Teige ~Collage #70,1939
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The Beatles — The Night Before This is a little honey of a song and video
Beautiful set of photos of Seydisfiordur, Iceland, taken in November.
In case you’re thinking of going … ~ Seydisfiordur: Population 802 ~ It’s across the mountains from Reykjavik and you need to catch a weekly a ferry there from Denmark. ~ A week there would provide ample time to hone your photographic skills (how many distractions could there be?), build your character and find out what Icelanders intend to do about the colossal debt problem they’re facing. ~ Iceland owes Britain and the Netherlands £3.5bn sterling for a bail-out, which equates to about £40,000 per family — but can’t or won’t pay under the current deal provisions.
Neil Finn? Pretty much a lyrical genius.
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From Wikipedia:
“Crowded House toured Europe and had begun their US tour when Hester left the band on 15 April 1994,[13] he flew back to Melbourne to await the birth of his first child and indicated he required more time with his family.[1][13]Wally Ingram, drummer for support act, Sheryl Crow, temporarily filled in;”
We were there that night. A surprisingly good show for a volunteer unrehearsed drummer. K spent 20 minutes in the ladies’ room line with Sheryl’s mom, and pronounced a perfectly wonderful person.
I believe I was the first person ever to review Neil Finn in concert. He was doing a support spot for Split Enz — his older brother was singer and songwriter Tim Finn, and of course it was Split Enz I had gone to see, probably late 1975.
Neil would have been about 17, and was humble and yet very assured on stage. I told readers of The Press, Christchurch, where I was a journo, to watch him, he would be a star. I would likely still have the clipping in a scrapbook somewhere.
I have never seen Neil since but have had a message relayed to me from him: that he never forgot my review and that he was ever grateful. That information came to me 30 years later via an ex of mine who he worked with briefly.
Ape, book, coach, from Nursery Present or Alphabet of Pictures, London, 1830.
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