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Love Phantom Radio and the remix album of it. This one's a particular favourite from the remix album

Why does that graph show Italy and not India?

C'mon, you live in the UK I also think you're missing the word government in there

ANd a little bit more

I hadn't read @HanoiVillanpost, I came here to post this, which includes the above and MUCH more on Johnson's Russian connections. Eye opening thread

That rules Bono out

Nope, this is quite wrong Most tours are advertised as something, people know what they are going to see. It's like complaining that your favourite artists next painting isn't like the last one and he should paint the last one again I have no idea why people go to gigs and shout out the names of songs they want to hear. The set list is written in advance, even the encores usually. People shouting for a song isn't going to change that Take that Debbie Harry example, she'll have been playing with a band of session musicians, they'll have rehearsed a set number of songs, they won't know anything else. The lighting engineer will need to have researsed the light routines for each song, the two sound engineers will need to know the songs too so they can balance the sound. The backline guys will need to know the songs to make sure the right instruments are ready if changes or spares are needed. The band don't just turn up and play and it all happens like magic. It's very rare bands will be able to do justice to songs called out on the fly like that The closest I ever saw to stuff like that was Elvis Costello doing his big wheel tour, after every song a member of the audience would be invited on stage to spin the wheel and they'd play the song it landed on next but even then it was a set pool of songs to choose from. Bowie did a tour once where the fans chose the songs by voting before the tour started and NME attempted to hijack it by getting readers to vote for the Laughing Gnome, it worked, the song had the most votes, they still didn't play it but again, it was still all rehearsed before the tour

Not seen him many times and I only really like the classic period pre-Scary Monsters but I was still keen to see it whilst working. Utterly awful, it really was

Ah man. It’s such a f***er I’d just picked up my first fare tonight with Marc Riley on the radio and he announced it and just broke down on air. Never seen Mark Lanegan play that I can remember, so that’s now definitely a regret. Switching to a ML playlist on Spotify now so gutted!

Hmm yes, I didn't realise Buffalo Springfield (The Album) predated The Doors (The Album) by about a month And of course The Byrds were the ones that championed BS to get them the gig at the Whisky

Can't see The Doors supporting BS, The Doors were the house band at the Whiskey A Go Go before Buffalo Springfield (They were both discovered there), I think STills and Furay would have been chasing Neil Youngs Hearse down Sunset Boulevard around the time The Doors were the Whiskey house band

The Doors using Buffalo Springfield's drums Oh and sticking a DI Box mid-stage infront of the singer is asking for trouble but hey ho

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I saw them once with Run DMC as a punter and then a few weeks later I was working at this... Nothing you will ever have read in any article gets remotely close to the truth It's not a regret though, I've been bought many a drink for telling the stories of that night. Me vs The Beastie Boys Security Team (American Psychos) tooled up with baseball bats and CS Gas canisters, They want to get through the door I was working, I wouldn't let them (it went directly into a public area). The mayhem would have been far worse if they'd got through. I won. That story has never been in any article nor have many other bits of that night.

My biggest Bowie regret Having to endure the entire set and encore of Tin Machine at the Royal Court in Liverpool. What complete and utter turgid bollocks Bowie announcing a song and then going 1-2-3-4. You really expect us to believe your band needs counting in? A special mention for Bowie absolutely murdering Debaser by The Pixies I was doing security on the mixing desk, the one security position where you can't hide behind a door or move out of the auditorium for a bit of respite God it was awful

I see Johnson today saying Putin has completely torn up international law Erm Erm Is anyone going to tell him he shouldn't be the one pointing this out as he has no credibility on the matter?

I keep seeing this line being pushed by STWC types, do you have any evidence of this as I've not managed to see any yet? I'm not criticising your overall point but I am genuinely interested to see actual evidence of this particular claim

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Guaranteed none of the dead heads in the pub felt it

Ah that might be one now you mention it. Birmingham Odeon about 1980, I’d only just started going to gigs and I think A Certain Ratio supported. That one’s a regret I think

I think its only me playing this now nerdlegame 33 4/6

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It's all down to a particular control chip used in cars, there is a global shortage and it's nothing to do with China 1/3rd of these chips used in cars worldwide are made in one Factory in Japan, it had a huge fire In the US, Samsung and others have manufacturing facilities in Texas. there was a huge storm last winter than knocked out those facilities for a while Taiwan, suffered a big drought and they need lots of water on the manufacturing process That's what has caused the new car shortage, not even COVID related (COVID did have an effect but not as much as the above)

50p Each Way isn't going to make you rich anyway