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  • Humbug
    Humbug
    7 months
    Kid Rock, Greastest Show On Earth. Smashing this song at the moment.

  • obisteve
    obisteve
    1 month
    Another from the last knifefighter.
    "Full tank means freedom......"



  • obisteve
    obisteve
    27 days ago
    Thanks for the reminder of the one note song in another thread Hilly. It's a rainy day here so I'm ignoring all the stuff I should be doing, just kicking around. After Hilly's reminder, here's a twofer, both about the days we all went through, young, horny, piss ignorant, getting by on bravado and bullshit.
    The funny and sad thing about those days for me was that I was riding around on a BSA 250, trying to feel cool.

  • Hilly
    Hilly
    27 days ago
    No wuckas Steve, I think starting on a BSA 250 is way cooler than a Honda 90 step through(that refused to die) which is the first bike I actually owned myself lol. 
  • obisteve
    obisteve
    27 days ago
    Dunno about that. That pretty unbiased source Wikipedia says about the C15:
    "The bike proved to need careful maintenance, being prone to oil leaks, electrical faults, gearbox problems, valve-gear failures, a weak bigend and clutch adjustment problems."
    Just right to inflict on a baby biker eh? 
    They didn't mention the weak main bearings.
    My mates enjoyed riding their Honda 250s, I got acquainted with dirty oil on my boots, grease, the smell of burning wire insulation, and pushing a dead bike along the road. Trust me, I would have swapped it for a running Honda 90.
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  • obisteve
    obisteve
    9 days ago
    Now I've got some weird taste in music that not many of you share, but you think a little thing like that will stop me posting?
    I do like some late 70's punk, young kids that couldnt play for shit, picking up instruments and screaming out the lyrics. Probably like the music because it reminds me of the life I was living then.
    Any way, this is a strange punk rock love story.
    One of the worst singers was Wreckless Eric, a 19 year old kid from the north east coast
     of England who'd just written a song, he knew 2 chords and used both of them, it got some airplay. This an early video of him, he looks like a nice kid, trying hard to look like a sneering punk rocker. Got Ian Drury on drums. The Whole Wide World. It's a shocker.
    It makes him a bit of money, then almost disappears but trickles on getting popular. Gets covered by Mental as Anything, who do a way better version.
    Old Eric hangs around in the music business, just trickling on, doing some performances, some DJ work, learns a couple of more chords, and about 25 years later is back in Hull, DJing at his local pub where he first performed the Whole Wide World, still a bit of a small time local hero.
    The visiting band is with Amy Rigby, an American woman quite a bit younger than him who is pretty into retro punk. Any way, the band starts playing Whole Wide World, Eric's mates push him up on stage, the singer stops and asks him "Who the fuck are you?" He answers, "I'm the cunt who wrote it" and they give him a guitar to play along.
    20 years later they're still married, still writing and playing music, still touring and yes, still sometimes playing Whole Wide World.

  • Hilly
    Hilly
    7 days ago
    Still listen to wreckless, Semaphore Signals is another I like, I ran into a bloke at the Ox in Cobar back in the mid 80's that was wearing a t-shirt he got from a Wreckless Eric concert, I tried a few times during that night to buy it off him but he wasn't having a bar of it haha. 
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