Additional info for those who don't know: He's credited as BA Robertson to avoid confusion with the other Brain Robertson, a Thin Lizzy member at the time he first appeared.
Posts by foxfeeder
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I'd like to think he'd appreciate that.
Me too. But it is a huge and sad loss. Bernard was woven into the fabric of British showbiz like almost no other. Given that Benny Hill and Roy Kinnear both made it into Genesis related videos, I'm surprised Bernard didn't, and if he had, I'm sure he'd have been brilliant. As always!
RIP
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Well, the original version is the benchmark, isn't it? A transatlantic hit, a standard in the live set ever since and very moving enyway, both with Carrack and Roachford singing.
But it's nice to learn that BA Robertson also makes music on his own. I also wasn't aware!
He had several solo hits in the UK in the late 70's, Cool in the Kaftan, Bang Bang being 2 I remember.
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Not sure if you'll get to read this, but I wonder how you get to judge who are entitled nobodies or alledged Superfans? The latter being the point that drew my "there it is" comment above.
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Yeah, our original copy is excellent. The ones we traded were not bad, but this one uploaded by someone to do with the Genesis fanzine TWR, looks very low res.
Still, because of the way this has been leaked from the private pool. All other private recordings have been locked back into the vault.
TGA
And there we have it!
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I don't think anyone is saying there isn't good music available from all time periods, but the 60's and 70's were exceptional. 1975, for example, probably saw more great albums released then most decades since. IMO.
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Ah yes, Time Bandits! A film I've always loved. Mainly due to a scene with David W in it. I worked for BT, and in 1986 was on a course at Horwood House near Milton Keynes. It's a hotel now, but was a BT management course facility back then. In the evenings, you could borrow video tapes from the reception and play them in the course rooms. We chose Time Bandits one night. When David, discussing the use of technology to rule the world, says "Show me Subscriber Trunk Dialling" we had to stop the tape cos we were laughing so hard.
Made funnier then as Subscriber Trunk Dialling, (or STD - has a different meaning now!) had only been completed in Sept 1979, I was involved in the final testing, prior to that, there were always a few places you needed the operator for, hard to believe 40 years on with everyone carrying a phone in their pocket.
RIP David, a Titanic performer.
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Not a track I knew, but it makes me think of Camel playing Naminanau!
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So you wouid prefer the American system and have a directly elected PM, How would that work? How would an MP be elected to Parliament and then elected as Prime Minister?
I guess they wouldn't have an MP elected as PM, as USA president is not a current senator or congressman, but as for preferring the American system, with a person chosen by the electorate, look how well that has worked out for the US. Trump? Biden, W, to name but three. Among other issues with that system is that you have to be incredibly rich to qualify. Not necessarily a bad thing, but it shouldn't be a qualification, or a bar.
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Frankly, I'd have to pick a decade of my own definition, ie/ 1966 to 1976, as that was the era when anything seemed possible, and the good stuff outnumbered the bad. Very much the opposite of today, or any time this century, frankly.
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I can get a dozen eggs for $2.00, freshly laid too!...
from a farmer. Most stores here charge between $5.00 to $8.00 
Just to point out, you need the crap on the eggs to keep them fresh.
Most supermarkets wash their eggs which destroys the protective layer... So most North Americans need to refrigerate eggs rather then keeping them in a cool place.
I prefer mine from a chicken!
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i saw them in 2019 also, they were first band to christen the new sound system installed in RAH (yes i know a charity gig before beat them)
heres one of the few vids i did on phone, the bass was great, i should HAVE recorded more.External Content www.youtube.comContent embedded from external sources will not be displayed without your consent.Through the activation of external content, you agree that personal data may be transferred to third party platforms. We have provided more information on this in our privacy policy.Sorry, pet hate!
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Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak will be our next PM. Effectively if not actually our head of state as all the powers of the crown are handed to the PM, ( our monarch is nothing other than a ceremonial figurehead ). They will be elected by around 180,000 conservative party members. I've looked at the U.S democracy and it seems pretty poor to me but UK is much much worse. The vote will probably be fairly close so round about 100,000 will actually put our next PM in power. which is at a guess around 0.2% of the population. As for the choices,.I don't like either of them . Rishi Sunak appears to have an ounce of concern for social justice, where LT has none, ,so I would prefer him . On the other hand he's more likely to keep the Tories in power , so it's a loose loose scenario .
To be fair though, exactly the same thing happens with the Labour Party. Blair handed the keys to Brown without any public say, in a pre-planned action. Brown then went on to borrow around £2500 a year for every man, woman and child in the country for the next 2 years when the international credit crunch happened, in order to hide the effects of it and buy the next election. It didn't work, of course, but we are still stuck with the debt. We are now borrowing to pay the interest! Perhaps the answer would be to make the party who borrows responsible for the debt. Maybe then we'd see some more responsible borrowing, rather than pushing us down the road of Greece, Italy and others.
As for Truss, my issue with her is she is a foot-in-mouth merchant, just like Boris. She doesn't seem to have a handle on what's going on around her and just says stuff before thinking about it. Rishi, on the other hand, seems like he has a plan.
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There is always talk of what the weather will be like in a couple of weeks in the UK! I don't think the weather people have a clue. The long range forecasts are hopeless. I don't think I have ever seen a 5 day forecast where forecast doesn't change over those days
I say this to people all the time. It's a forecast, the one thing it will be is wrong, they do their best, but the weather is a big beast to keep track of. and the further forward they try and predict, the more wrong it will be.
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The Utopia Strong - The Utopia Strong(2019)
Experimental Prog
One of the musicians includes Steve Davis, 7 times World Snooker Champion.
He's on the right. Wouldn't have guessed until you mentioned it.
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Joe Brown is a famous cockney singer, actor and comedian appearing on so many TV shows in UK back in the 60s and 70s. His songs are very cheerful and comedic. Still performing in his 80s
He was generally liked by all pears and was generally known as the 'chirpy cockney'
His daughter Sam had a hit with Stop, and was once a backing singer for Barclay James Harvest.
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Think I bought my first calculator around 1976/77 back in the day!!!...
..... Before then, I was using a slide rule and log tables and anti-logs to do maths. We were allowed to use those in exams but not calculators.Yes, about the time I bought my first one too, a Commodore MinuteMan 6, Commodore Minuteman 6 Handheld Electronic Calculator | National Museum of American History (si.edu) a real off-the-wall calculator, very small, ran on a PP3 battery when almost all others used AA cells, it was wedge shaped, didn't have a floating decimal point, you had to figure that out yourself, and used reverse Polish notation, where all 4 function keys were also enter keys, so 6x9= was 6, any of the 4 function keys, 9, then the function you wanted, so 6+9x, or 6-9x, or 6/9x, or 6x9x, and you got the answer.
Yes, used log tables and slide rules. I was in the last year in our school to use traditional maths, and another group in our year was the first to use the new system, called SMP I think. We once had a chat with the other group during a break, and we couldn't make head nor tail of their system.
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Who is Wee Arthur Champions, and why are Queen always singing about him?
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Rogers our TV network and provider for the internet was down for 2 days. Was happy this morning to know my internet is back
It's amazing what you rely on over the years!...😁
Yes, I read that this morning. On Teletext! it is, indeed, amazing what you rely on over the years, and years!
I remember attending a display of Prestel, basically teletext over a phone line using a small plug in decoder box, at a venue in Chester with a couple of friends back in about 1976/7, just before it was publically launched. We were amazed. This is the FUTURE, we thought. Prestel - Wikipedia
Back to your situation, I believe Canadian Internet Cafe's have never had it so good as the last couple of days!
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Agreed on all points you rose, my worry is, so I believe, it's a in-house vote who who is elected, not the public.
Yes it is, but being realistic, what party would go to the polls in their situation, when they have a massive majority. Brown didn't when he took over from Blair, and that was all pre-planned.
