Music makes you stop & think......

Bit of a sidetrack but do you ever get a song in your head that you can't get rid of - I like all music, but at the moment I can't get rid of a song by Marmalade (I know, I know) from the late sixties, called 'Reflections of my life' which I keep playing especially in the car. I now know all the words, and have done a CD with several versions which I just keep playing. My favourite version is by the lead singer Dean Ford, who basically couldn't handle the fame when the band was at the top and became an alcoholic and lost everything. He recently did this version in the States where he lives and it is now very poignant now he is in his late 60's.
It's all on You Tube, but a great, sad, song.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn9bAvWS4RU
 
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Jimmy Weston said:
I totally agree Tony, I hope my phone doesn't get stolen like it did 3 years ago , without any lock code on it, I suprised the poor chap or lass didn't bring it back with my music choiceHere's the last songs I played through my phone in the car last weekend
Wasp ,forever free
Bonjovi,bed off roses
Jimmy Hendrix, the wind cries Mary
Bob seger,Hollywood nights
Kid rock,FOAD
Pink floyd,back to life
Lynard skynrd simple man
Robbie Williams, come undone
Jose felicano,California dreaming
Dire straights Romeo @juilet
I await the Zed police at the door pretty soon , with the straight jacket.
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All of those on my MP3 player in my car mate, and lots more just like those.

Tony.
 
The Wurzels are playing at the Wharf at Tavistock tonight. Top "Scrumpy and Western" band.

Might go for a birthday treat

Straight from the box office ..........

The Wurzels with Mick O'Toole
Scrumpy and Western | Seated+Standing

Formed in 1966 by Adge Cutler, the Bard of Avonmouth, this bunch of haystack-headed, cider-soaked and dung-booted, not-quite-so-young Avonside lads play good-time traditional Zummerzet Scrumpy 'n' Western music. The band has had considerable commercial success from their 1967 anthem Drink Up Thy Zider to the heights of the chart-topping Combine Harvester in 1976. Big in Nempnett Thrubwell, these guys are huge across the whole county!

The Wurzels shows regularly sell out so book early to avoid disappointment.

Mick O'Toole are a five piece southern cider swilling folk band from the deepest darkest Shire! Guaranteed to make any night go down a storm this band will have you foot tapping and tankard slamming along to a number of Irish classics and original belters
 
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billysally208 said:
Bit of a sidetrack but do you ever get a song in your head that you can't get rid of - I like all music, but at the moment I can't get rid of a song by Marmalade (I know, I know) from the late sixties, called 'Reflections of my life' which I keep playing especially in the car. I now know all the words, and have done a CD with several versions which I just keep playing. My favourite version is by the lead singer Dean Ford, who basically couldn't handle the fame when the band was at the top and became an alcoholic and lost everything. He recently did this version in the States where he lives and it is now very poignant now he is in his late 60's.
It's all on You Tube, but a great, sad, song.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn9bAvWS4RU
Click to expand...
Like the old shots of them on TOTP.... They wouldn't get away with their drum kit art today... Probably wouldn't get away with those suits either. Interesting how many successful musicians "dropped out" back then.. Peter Green springs to mind... In stark contrast with most of the very ordinary "musicians" of today who will kill for fame and fortune (coldplay?? The Mr Bean of music.... Wooawoooah wooawoooah... Sing along in any language)
 
All this would make some great play lists! Really taking me back you lot. I saw the original Fleetwood Mac ,Peter Green,Jeremy Spencer many times in the sixties when I was a student. Also saw Pink Floyd and the Stones both free concerts in Hyde Park. Great days to follow the development of rock music.
When HT mentioned 40 years since that Genesis album it was like the other week when it was 50 years since Sgt Pepper, scary!
I'm a big fan of many of the bands mentioned, from Hendrix, Cream, ELO, Santana, Free, etc,etc, but my favourite was Thin Lizzy.
Isn't hindsight a wonderful thing? I had pretty much everything from the Stones,Spencer Davis etc through to Queen, Deep Purple,Yes etc and a few years ago I decided to sell all my vinyl albums as they just never got played. I advertised them and only got one chap who came to look at them, but he decided he wasn't bothered. More of a Mr Blobby fan I think! I couldn't give them away. I left it for about six months and we were moving house so we wanted to de-clutter so I advertised them again. Eventually I sold them all to a chap, but didn't get much. Now everybody wants them again, bummer!!!!
 
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