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Bryan Burnett | 11:43 UK time, Saturday, 16 January 2010

tape.jpgOur motivation season is going well - unlike my streetdance lessons and on Wednesday we have another great theme to tie in with A New Year, A New You. It may be a traumatic listen for some of you as I'll be asking you to confess your greatest fears and phobias. A special thank you by the way to everyone who's texted in for the new Friday show. It's going well and we have been inundated with great tunes. Thanks for making it a fun night and a welcome addition to the Get It On schedule. It was a busy week on the blog last week which was brilliant to see so well done bloggers...

Mon
On Monday's show we'll be celebrating the audio cassette. What I'd
like you to do is go off into the cupboard, have a listen to some of
those old mix tapes and tell me what you find. Were you an avid
recorder of the Top 40 show 'aff the radio' or were you king or queen
of the compilation tape?

Tues
I'd like all our bloggers to Give A Little Love on Tuesday or maybe
Take It To The Limit. A bit of GIVE and TAKE is what's required
tonight. You Get What You Give or Take On Me? You decide...

Wed
As part of our motivation season, Shereeen Nanjiani is learning to
overcome her fear of moths ( No Wings for here then). What are your
fears and phobias and what are the tunes that go with them. Spiders
and Snakes? Bridge Over Troubled Water or something from The Darkness?
Please don't be scared to get in touch with your suggestions.

Thurs
It's a case of 'nice song - shame about the hair'! Who are the artists
whose music is great but image leaves a lot to be desired. It's a
chance to revisit some of the 80's worst hairdos. Did you love Terry
Hall but hate Terry's hair and did Pete Burns' corkscrew curls put you
off Dead or Alive forever?

Fri
It's the new themeless Friday edition of Get It On. We'll have another
Fab 5 for you and if someone you know is celebrating a birthday then
have them added to Bryan's Birthday Honours List by emailing in the
usual address.

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  • Comment number 1.

    audio cassette - mixtape
    Good themes this week, as ever.

    Monday:
    Only two cassettes ramain in my house, and only 1 is a mixtape. "CD mix 3" consists of:
    Listen to the music - Doobie Brothers
    Rich girl - Hall and Oates
    Kiss - Tom Jones
    We want the same thing - Belinda Carlisle
    Love on a rooftop - Cher
    From a distance - Nanci Griffiths
    Wired for sound - Cliff Richards
    Heartache tonight - Eagles
    State of independence - Donna Summer
    Downtown train - Rod Stewart
    Who needs to know - Michael Ball
    In the summertime - Mungo Jerry

    Tuesday: Give and take
    With apologies for my long list...............
    Take me home - Nathan Barr/Lisbeth Scott
    Take me home tonight - Eddie Money
    Take me home, country roads - John Denver
    Take me out - Franz Ferdinand
    Take it on the run - REO Speedwagon
    Take your mama - Scissor Sisters
    Every breath you take - Police
    Piece of my heart - Faith Hill (Take it, take another little piece of my heart )
    We don't have to take our clothes off - Jermaine Stewart
    Give a little bit - Supertramp
    Giving it all away - Leo Sayer
    Giving me wings - the Frames
    Give me the night - George Benson
    Give me some wheels - Suzy Bogguss
    Give me a reason - the Corrs
    Give me the reason - Luther Vandross
    Ruby, don't take your love to town - The Killers
    Don't take away the music - Tavares
    If it don't take two - Shana Twain

    and only for the intro mix: Don't give up on us - David Soul!

    Wednesday: Fears and phobias

    Everybody wants to rule the world - Tears for Fears
    Higher ground - Red Hot Chilli Peppers/Stevie Wonder
    Outbound plane - Nanci Griffith (for Craig)
    Ships in the night - Be Bop Deluxe (for my better half, who hates boats)

    My personal "phobias" (which may or may not count) are that I don't sing, ever (because I can't) and I hate birthdays, so:

    Happy Birthday - Stevie Wonder
    Sing a song - Earth Wind and Fire
    Sing - Nanci Griffith

    Thursday and Friday - to follow

    Have a good weekend all


    Joe
    Linlithgow

  • Comment number 2.


    My tape player is chewing up the tapes, there is no tracklist on the tapes and my memory is notoriously unreliable. I'll just laugh at everyone else's requests.

    >8-D

  • Comment number 3.

    I did my Top 20 on cassette and have since transferred it to CD. I'll look it out later

    In the meantime, the quiz CD has arrived. I'll send a copy into the show!

    LastFM has more info!

    DC

  • Comment number 4.


    MONDAY

    As I will be a spectator rather than a participant on Monday, I would dearly love to hear something from the mix-tape of our beloved presenter.
    (see photograph at top of page)

  • Comment number 5.

    OK pop pickers, here's DC's Top 20 cassette listing:

    In at number 17 (OK, it was a C90 which meant I had to leave out three....)

    Need your love so bad - Fleetwood Mac (the Peter Green crowd)
    16 Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac (the newer Stevie Nicks set up)
    15 Without you - Harry Nilsson
    14 Broken down angel - Nazareth
    13 Have I told you lately - Van Morrison
    12 Blinded by light The Rolling Stones
    11 Mother Nature's Son - The Beatles
    10 Sara - Fleetwood Mac
    9 Driftwood - Travis
    8 Sacrifice - Sinead O'Connor
    7 Angie - The Rolling Stones
    6 Let it be - The Beatles
    5 Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
    4 Here comes the sun - The Beatles
    3 Imagine - John Lennon
    2 Stairway to Heaven - Led Zepplin
    1 Hey Jude - The Beatles

    Obviously the top 2 would be re-written to suit my musical tastes today. But hey, it's what I liked a few years ago!

    I also gave my tapes titles. This one is called Stairway to Haven after the climb to the bar at our local hostelry) and another was Dark Side of the May (a reference to the island on the horizon)





    DC

  • Comment number 6.

    Top 2 should read top 20 of course...

  • Comment number 7.

    Howdi Team

    MONDAY: HENRI'S ADVENTURES WITH AUDIO TAPE.

    None of my hitherto gargantuan collection of mixed tapes to play in the car (or those made for parties) now exist and I'd be dishonest to say I could remember the contents with any precision.

    So I have only two tracks that stand out for inclusion tonight and coming from my cassette mixing.

    It was an accident that the Sony turntable my dad bought as part of my 21st required you to 'slide' between 33rpm - 45rpm, but what it also meant was that you could play things at any speed in between.

    This was often amusing and occasionally useful.

    I once had a 'chunk' of tape at the end of one side that wasn't big enough for a 3 minute track and formed the view that I could get Neil Young's 'Till The Morning Comes' tucked in at the end.

    I misjudged this and from about half way through the track, began to gradually increase the speed on the turntable until, just before the end of the track and the tape it reached Pinky and Perky levels, but finished within the tape available.

    Incredibly, many people, including myself, thought it both amusing and an improvement.

    The other benefit of this sliding turntable was for parties - those tracks that can be made a bit more danceable by being sped up a bit and included on a mixed tape.

    The most memorable of these is the much loved Doobie Brothers classic 'What A Fool Believes' which becomes quite danceable about 38/39 without spoiling the quality or feel of the track. Even all these years later when I hear it I still think it too slow and that my primitive 'dance' version was better! I wish I could find it now.

    You should try it!

    So, for Monday,

    Till The Morning Comes - Neil Young

    What A Fool Believes - The Dooble Brothers

    regardez - youse

    Henri





  • Comment number 8.

    I love how Bryan's Jethro Tull mix tape is of course a C120 - you really need the full two hours to get in all the great stuff. :-)

  • Comment number 9.

    #8

    Indeed!

    Also, balancing on one foot whilst playing the flute would improve Bryan's posture dramatically! His dance teacher would be well chuffed.

    N.B. Of course, he shouldn't forget to swap occasionally.

    Do you think he will be dancing the 'Bouree'?

  • Comment number 10.

    hi ,
    I want really to say that Thanks to share this ..
    with my best

  • Comment number 11.

    This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.

  • Comment number 12.

    #10

    DC, Try again. It's still no' workin'.

  • Comment number 13.

    #11

    No, no, no. Persevere! If it was easy (it is, but we must preserve the illusion) everyone would be doing it!!

  • Comment number 14.


    That was quick! Was it the rest of 'Mary had a little lamb, she put it in a bucket' ?

    >8-D

  • Comment number 15.

    It's no me!!!

    I'm too busy doing this quiz

    Interested?

    DC

  • Comment number 16.

    #8
    other brands of audio tape were also available.....as they say on the bbc.

  • Comment number 17.

    My favourite mixtape moment was not from one of my own but from Friends.


    My Funny Valentine / Janice

    Oh.............My...................God!







    why did car manufacturers never make door trays big enough to hold a stack of tapes. I'd go to change a tape and lacerate my hand on all the broken cassette cases stuffed in there.




  • Comment number 18.

    TUESDAY: TAKE

    TAKE THE LONG WAY HOME - SUPERTRAMP

    Not only is this a lovely, melodic, radio friendly and beautifully played track, I just love the sentiment and, like many of us - I guess - I have lived it out.

    Those days when you come out of your work knackered or troubled and you know you've got to go back, but cannot the face the 'other' - the domestic life that you sometimes feel you've become unrelated to.... those days when you just want a little time and space to yourself, to imagine how things could be different or better.. and all you can get is to find something to listen to in the car ...and so you just drive: you take the long way home.

    It expresses perfectly all those feelings of alienation, frustration and loss of identity that we all sometimes feel in our inability to balance out the different lives we lead.

    It should be played for all who have ever done it and for all those driving home just now, who are doing just exactly that - for whom 'Get It On' manages the transition form one life to another - and who will arrive home in a better frame of mind for taking the long way home whilst listening to music in the car.

    regardez youse

    Henri

  • Comment number 19.

    TUESDAY - OTHER TAKES:

    Take A Giant Step - Taj Mahal

    (A motivational song to help you encourage you with your dance steps, Bryan.)

    Take Me in Your Arms - Kim Weston

    What Does It Take - Jnr Walker.

    ( Motown Classics)

  • Comment number 20.

    TUESDAY: - GIVE

    Too Long At The Fair - Bonnie Raitt - from 'Give It Up'

    (stunning, beautiful,just lovely)

    Sometimes I Want To Give Up - Love & Money

    (I saw this done live - everyone joined in the chorus, great)

    Yesterday - Paul McCartney from 'Give My Regards To Broadstreet'

    (much improved on the original, great recording of worlds most recorded song)

    Got To Give It Up - Marvin Gaye
    (there just aren't enough superlatives in the English language)

  • Comment number 21.

    Tuesday
    First We Take Manhattan / Joe Cocker (Best Lenny cover ever bar none. A stonking version far better than the whiney REM version)

    I'll Take You There / Staple Singers

    Take the money and run / Steve Miller Band

    They're coming to take me away ha ha he he ho ho hu hu / Napoleon xiv

    Risin to the top (Give it all you goy) / Keni Burke

  • Comment number 22.

    goy?

    I can do the blue thingy's and the bold thingy's now.
    Just canny spell.

  • Comment number 23.

    #22

    I can't do the blue thingy's or the bold thingy's and I can't spell either.

    how do you do the blue/bold thingy's?

  • Comment number 24.

    #19
    Henri if you get JW's what does it take on, you're a better man than me. Tried more than twice in the past.

  • Comment number 25.

    #23
    Speak nicely to Mr Git and he'll send you the link to the codes.

  • Comment number 26.

    #25

    Dear Mr Git,

    I have long admired your blog contributions and have laughed out loud at your jokes - most recently your definition of 'Country & Western'.

    I believe it to be nothing short of absolutely disgraceful that the GIO team have repeatedly failed to play your requests for Jethro Tull (among others).It is, after all, a request show which should cater for minorities, in line with the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ charter.

    It is simply wrong that you are being endlessly sidelined in favour of the instantaneous vox pop requests from social network sites, and worse still, whilst others are being rewarded for carrying out the dangerous habit of texting whilst driving.

    It is hard for myself and your fellow bloggers to witness.

    Paulo says you know have the codes to do the bold & blue thingy's and I wondered if you could pass them onto me, in order that my blogging experience is made all the more rewarding.

    I wish you all the very best with your Tull campaign in the future.

    L&K

    Henri
    x

    p.s. there's no rush - Smiffy is about to haul me off to see some gypsy dance troupe at Celtic Connections.

  • Comment number 27.

    Must have missed out as I had more cassettes than storage space in the 70s, but I never got the length of making a mix tape.
    I'll join you on the sidelines SG. Maybe just as well else I'd be on a "Hat-Trick"!

  • Comment number 28.



    What a fun afternoon I've had down memory lane trying to think what was on those tape mixes. Being diverted down roads not travelled for a while - Robert Cray for instance, a huge fan at one time and now remembering why.
    I've ruthlessly chucked all my tapes, but these are what I remember from some of the mixes I made for the work Christmas party where everyone brought in their own tape and drunken brawls broke out as we each tried to hog the tape recorder
    In no particular order:
    The Pretender, Jackson Browne;
    More than a Feeling, Boston;
    Hollywood Nights, Bob Seger;
    Be Good to Yourself, Frankie Miller;
    Sweet Little Sixteen, Ten Years After;
    Can't Get Enough, Bad Company;
    Rat Trap, Boomtown Rats;
    Ramblin' Man, Allman Bros;
    Oliver's Army, Elvis Costello;
    Knockin' on Heaven's Door, Bob Dylan;
    Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo, Rick Derringer;
    Smoking Gun, Robert Cray

    and for Give and Take:

    Gimme Shelter, Stones - one of my all time top ten
    Gimme All Your Lovin', ZZ Top
    Take Good Care of Yourself, Frankie Miller;
    Every Breath You Take, Police;
    Take a Little Piece of My Heart, Dusty Springfield;

  • Comment number 29.

    #28 Dylan, Costello & Bad Co on the same tape, impressive!
    I'll 2nd your mix Gaie!

    Paul from Ayr

  • Comment number 30.

    #26 sooooooook.....

    :-)

    DC

  • Comment number 31.

    Monday: Mix tape.

    I always hated mix tapes and still do to this day. I generally only listen to complete albums. I hate to cherry pich from albums or I-tunes etc so I am stuclk for a suggestion for this one. I will have to think of a non album song. There are a few Roxy/Ferry tracks but will go for a Sylvian track Heartbeat, or Forbidden Colours.

    J.O'B.

  • Comment number 32.

    #29 cheers, Paul - now if everyone else at the party had thought the same there'd have been no squabbling. Or maybe there would, given the amount of alcohol taken. And I see now they're not what you'd call top dance tracks.

  • Comment number 33.

    NEWSFLASH!

    Buy a Macca CD tomorrow and get a free Scottish Mail on Sunday.

    Other Sunday newspapers are available!!

  • Comment number 34.

    #26

    *sigh*

    Does L&K mean what I think it means? Only one person has dared to send me kisses on the blog!

    Henri is Miss Babs!!

    Or maybe Miss Babs is Henri!!

    Whatever!!

    >8-D

  • Comment number 35.

    #15

    I wanna be on Norrie's team. If we win I'll be happy to share the credit. If he loses he's on his own...

    >8-D

  • Comment number 36.

    WEDNESDAY : PHOBIAS: 1: THE GRIM REAPER.

    I have long held a deep seated fear of bumping into the grim reaper.

    Consequently, could you play:

    Don't Fear the Reaper - by - The Blue Oyster Cult.

    regardez youse

    Henri

  • Comment number 37.

    #36

    Better not watch then.

  • Comment number 38.

    #34

    Thanks SG, I'm not much further forward but will find a way.

    Yes, but I am self evidently not Miss Babs:of the many identities I've been assumed to have, this is as bizarre as me sending you kisses - there are, of course, no circumstances in which I could bring myself to broadcast Adam Ant to the nation, when there are so many more artistes deserving of air time.

  • Comment number 39.


    I can't take any credit for this. It was posted on the PM blog by a regular contributor. I'm just passing it on.



    Have fun!

  • Comment number 40.


    Dear God,

    Being Scotch-git and Henri is so tiring. There just aren't enough hours in the day. Please get me out of this hole I've dug myself into, and I promise never to be naughty again. Amen.

  • Comment number 41.

    P.S.

    "I've dug myself into," should read "into which I've dug myself,"

    My therapist insists that God answers only those prayers that are grammatically correct.

    That would explain a lot...

  • Comment number 42.

    #32

    What kind of business allows a situation to develop where the staff end up brawling over a tape player? A recipe for disaster - everyone bring a tape and then hitting the electric soup.

    It's interesting though how people react over different media - people never used to come into your house and start rummaging through your vinyl and changing the record - yet people walk in here, pick up the ipod, find something more interesting to them, and change the track.

    Bloody cheek.

    Great tracks on your mixed tape - some old favourites there - and Ten Years After!

    Where were you when I was getting involved with someone who liked James Last?... no wonder it didn't last, still, I've got the kids to show for it.

    regardez youse

    Henri

  • Comment number 43.

    I am Henri Hannah


    I meant Blue Öyster Cult, of course

  • Comment number 44.

    WEDNESDAY: PHOBIAS 2 - FLYING

    Among the worst: fear of flying is a real stranglehold on modern living.

    I'm consequently not that well traveled and am the only person I know who has driven from Glasgow to a conference at Gatwick Airport.

    I got over it about three years ago when myself and my mates decided to go to Amsterdam for a weekend/ football match. As we got closer to it, I got more and more anxious. With two weeks to go I signed up for a BA 'Fear of Flying' course over a weekend at Manchester Airport.

    It was one of the very best decisions I've ever made, changed my life.

    It wasn't that I couldn't fly - I could always grit my teeth and get through it if there really was no other way.

    Ironically, when I got there I realised I didn't really have a fear of flying at all, and was introduced to some real sufferers.

    What I had was basic ignorance of aerodynamics, which, once explained I was fine.

    Now, I actively enjoy it and have been for flying lessons - if I had more time I'd go for my license.

    Anyone who 'puts up' with but doesn't care for flying should go on such a course.

    Anyway, to celebrate overcoming this phobic stranglehold could you play

    'Stranglehold' by Wings: (strictly speaking a Macca solo, but a very under rated track)

    regardez - youse

    Henri



  • Comment number 45.

    #44 well now we know that Henri didn't drive into Glasgow Airport from a conference at Gatwick.

    He could actually be Smeato. Better no' mess wi him. Kain?

    (Is Babs Smeato in disguise??? We should be telt!)

    :-)





    DC on the safe side of Scotland

  • Comment number 46.

    #35 wimp







    You know you want to....

    ;-)




    DC

  • Comment number 47.

    I can confirm 2 things....I am neither Scotch-Git nor am I Henri. And as I have met both of them, I can also confirm they are not one and the same.
    I am Miss Babs.....The Real McCoy, The One and Only.
    Ok...back to cassette mix tapes, anyone else use a C90 as a timer for sunbathing? Ah that's me back to memories of sunny Greece.

  • Comment number 48.

    MONDAY

    After all the yelling I've done at the radio each time 'Camouflage' (which I cannot stand) gets an airing, I'm amused that the first compilation tape song that springs to mind is the theme tune to the film Kelly's Heroes - 'BURNING BRIDGES' - THE MIKE CURB CONGREGATION.

    Taping off the radio was always annoying because of DJs talking over intros (and sometimes butting in every 30 seconds)...funnily enough, I tuned in to Radio 2 to hear how Chris Evans was getting on and he was talking over just about everything.

    Other stuff I remember having on mixtapes ranges from 'ANGIE' - ROLLING STONES, 'WHODUNNIT' - TAVARES, 'SEX AND DRUGS AND ROCK AND ROLL' - IAN DURY (I really enjoyed the film by the way) to an easy listening, orchestra-backed version of 'Pretty Vacant' - I don't think I ever knew who that was by.

  • Comment number 49.

    #44
    Amsterdam for a football match?












    Most folk go to see ann frank's pad

  • Comment number 50.

    #47
    Scotch Git Master of Disguise.

  • Comment number 51.

    #44

    Upon reflection, I suppose it's unlikely Stranglehold will get played(no matter how good) so perhaps I should play safe and ask for:

    'Learning to Fly' by Tom Petty. or

    Flying High - Jem

    (I bought Jem's album a year or so ago and I'm really enjoying it now - not many artists would sample The Swingle Singers doing Bach)

    #47

    Was that sunbathing in Sidari, Corfu - then 'home of hedonism' before Malia took over?

    #49

    It's true. It started as a day out for no reason at all; going to see a football team you nothing about. Initially it was Carlisle, Preston North End and Crewe and suchlike - and then we started getting more adventurous - we went to see Ajax v Vitesse Arnhem for no reason other than it was good day (weekend) out - which it was. What a stadium! The corners are glass fronted with bars behind them, so if it's cold you can stand in the bar and watch the game. Great fun. I never understood why Dutch fans were so un-animated and laid back, but the truth is they watch the game whilst getting quietly stoned. The atmosphere around the stadium teaches you a lot about the reality of passive smoking.

    Never did make to Anna Frank's house, or the Van Gough museum, despite my best endeavours - but nothing more racy either - the truth is we got lost and ended up walking round the Heiniken Brewery endlessly whilst trying to remember where the hotel was.

    regardez youse

    Henri



  • Comment number 52.

    #42 not a business, a research lab and it was the abs alc in the punch that did the damage.

    Liking Ten Years After doesn't guarantee success in relationships either, but I also have the kids and am going to send the mix list to my son to see what he makes of it.

    I realize Robert Cray wouldn't have been on that tape - he came later, I'm just amazed at how many tracks I did remember and will try to ignore the worrying inability to recall what I was doing on Friday when I go back to work tomorrow.

    #41 I think you must be that DJ from Bute-FM, whose father taught me English

  • Comment number 53.

    For Tues..

    Take These Chains From My Heart................ Ray Charles

    For Wed...

    Really don't like snakes, devious little gets as you'll here in...

    Al Wilson ............ The Snake


  • Comment number 54.

    I'll second the snake cos it's such a good tune. I once did the 'pose for a photo with a snake around your neck' bit on holiday. Was never afraid before but after feeling it's power as it tried to coil I doubt I would do it again.


    Wednesday
    Don't Be Afraid of the dark / Robert Cray Band



  • Comment number 55.

    I used to have a phobia which stemmed from a night out many moons ago in Strathclyde Student Union. At that time my last bus back to Airdrie on a saturday night left at half twelve and if I missed it I was snookered cos as a poor student I couldn't afford a taxi. So at 12.25 on a saturday night with a few pints inside me, I reckon I had just enough time to nick in to the toilets in Buchanan St bus station for a pee. I was the only one in when another guy came in and with 49 vacant stalls to choose from, stands in the one next to me. Now I know know it's well nigh impossible to do but that night I managed it. I froze in midpee. Tucked myself away and legged it back to the bus. For the next 45 minutes of my journey home my bladder screamed at me, I was bent double, my eyes fogged over, I started hallucinating and lost all sense of feeling in every other part of my body. All I could feel was my bladder. I'd like to sincerely apologise to anyone who had to use that Airdrie bus shelter on the sunday morning. It took me a long long time before I was able to pee next to someone again. Didn't understand

    As for a song?

  • Comment number 56.



  • Comment number 57.


    "If you don't mind me saying, some of you appear to be slightly unhinged."

    An ammendment to this statement is required. Delete slightly. Insert totally.

  • Comment number 58.

    I may be unhinged but I can spell amendment

  • Comment number 59.

    OMG, what have I said? Ignore it, they'll never notice.

    For Monday - Guilty - Barbra Streisand & Barry Gibb

    Living Next Door To Alice - Smokie

    When we moved house in 1981 the boy next door gave me a tape. Lots of songs on it, these were the only two I liked. As he handed me the tape he blushed and stuttered that he had always admired me "from afar." He was next door! Idiot.


    For Tuesday - Give A Little Love - Bay City Rollers

    I wonder if I can still squeeze into my white jeans with the tartan seams?

    Take Me ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ, Country Roads - Olivia Newton-John

    She always makes me cry. It's like feeling nostalgic for things you've never seen.


    For Wednesday - Bridge Over Troubled Water - Elvis 5:-)

    Bridges over canyons, wadis and dry gulches don't concern me. Bridges over water freak me out.

    Money - Liza Minnelli & Joel Grey

    I was at home having coffee and chatting with a neighbour when a phone call informed me that my Mum had been rushed into hospital. My neighbour kindly dropped me the Glasgow Royal where Mum was thankfully stable. Only then did I discover I had grabbed the wrong handbag. Money, credit cards and mobile phone were all in another bag, which was sitting in my kitchen. I have never felt so helpless. Eventually the nurse in charge of the ward arranged for a taxi to take me home on the hospital's account, but ever since I find myself obsessively checking my bag for purse, phone etc. That feeling of helplessness left a deep impression.


    For Thursday - This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us - Sparks

    Russell's hair I love. He's so cute! His brother is the culprit. And why does he wear that silly moustache? Aaargh!!

    White Wedding - Billy Idol

    Words fail me. He looks like a stupid wee lassie.

  • Comment number 60.

    #58

    I didn't name you or anyone else, Mr. Miller. But hey, if the cap fits!

  • Comment number 61.

    Talking of caps, an old schoolmate of mine as just been made Bishop of Glasgow. We haven't been hanging out much recently.

  • Comment number 62.

    #61

    Listed among his interests are collecting records and CDs. You should ask him to be our spiritual advisor.

  • Comment number 63.

    #61

    I may be unhinged but at least I can spell "has"


    :-0

    DC

  • Comment number 64.

    #41, #52

    Thank you. I think. Don't get me started on 'relationships'.

    Do you still live on Bute? My sisters have dragged me over for the Jazz festival a few times.

  • Comment number 65.

    TUESDAY

    'Wond'ring Aloud' - Jethro Tull

    "... and it's only the giving that makes you what you are."


    'Wond'ring Again' - Jethro Tull

    "... and it's only the taking that makes you what you are."

  • Comment number 66.

    #57

    I think there should be a facility whereby we have the option of removing our own comments. How many times have we all read our wee contribution, thought "That's okay", hit the 'Post Comment' button and then cringed with embarrassment? And why do we never notice the Foxes paw prior to hitting the 'Post Comment' button?

    Not that I'm drawing attention to anything you may or may not have written. I'm just making an observation.










    rambling git

  • Comment number 67.

    Tuesday.
    Gimme Shelter - Paul Brady & The Forest Rangers.
    Give A Little Bit - Supertramp.
    Let's Give This Love A Try - John Hiatt.
    Take Me To The Water - Talking Heads.
    Dan Takes Five - Dan Baird & ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖmade Sin.
    Take A Breath - David Gilmour. (Gdansk version)
    Take A Letter Maria - R.B Greaves.

  • Comment number 68.

    # 55

    Paulo, that cheered up the Hannah household - I must learn how to do this stuff - make links,that is - I can already use the urinal reasonably successfully.

    Tried to follow the Radio 4 instructions posted by Mr Git, but still couldn't get it. I'll hopefully get one of my staff to edify me in the morning.

    #62

    We already have a spiritual mentor in the form of Miss Babs!

    regardez youse

    Henri

  • Comment number 69.

    #64 No. I am now an Inverclyder and have never been to the jazz festival, though I'm told it's one of the best, or was in its heyday. I don't know anything about jazz, but I think the atmosphere was the thing? Well stupid remark, really, that's what all live events stand or fall by.

  • Comment number 70.

    #69

    If you're gonna go you really gotta stay overnight. The last ferry leaves way too early. I don't know anything about Jazz either, but I am rather fond of my siblings. i.e. The 'Wee' Sister and The 'Baby' Sister.

  • Comment number 71.

    #69

    I've always loathed recorded modern jazz - what I call 'when does the tune start' jazz - it only makes sense live somehow, but a bizarre thing happened last week. I dozed off during GIO and woke up at the start of the 'the jazz house'. I listened to the whole show.It was brilliant.

    I'm still feeling as though I've been attacked by a vampire, and slightly worried about what happens next.

    On the subject of which, just spotted 'True Blood' series 2 on Amazon!

  • Comment number 72.

    #71

    Deja vu

  • Comment number 73.

    #72

    Again.

  • Comment number 74.

    #73

    and yet again - apologies -what was that you were saying about deleting your own comments?

  • Comment number 75.

    #74

    That was me? I thought I posted that comment under your username.

    Whit a Riddy!!

  • Comment number 76.

    #71.

    Jazz, Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold..

  • Comment number 77.

    #69, #71, #76

    Right, who's gonna ask for Brubeck on Tuesday? Glen Miller?

    >8-D

  • Comment number 78.

    TUESDAY: GIVE

    I almost forgot:

    GIMME SOME TRUTH - JOHN LENNON

    (after all, what else is on Imagine?)

  • Comment number 79.

    MONDAY

    Rock N Roll Outlaw ~ Rose Tattoo... can't remember why?

  • Comment number 80.

    Oh, and on fear of flying I forgot about:

    Why Walk When You Can Fly - Mary-Chapin Carpenter

    which I haven't heard for ages and is rather good.

  • Comment number 81.

    MONDAY

    Rock N Roll Outlaw ~ Rose Tattoo... can't remember why?

  • Comment number 82.

    TUESDAY

    Is this a request or a depiction of Bryan's Blog? You decide...

    'The Lunatics Have Taken Over the Asylum' - Fun Boy Three

    >8-D

  • Comment number 83.

    #82
    About time.

  • Comment number 84.

    Dear goodness, I leave you all alone for a weekend......

  • Comment number 85.


    It wisnae' me!

  • Comment number 86.

    #84

    That'll be the quiz feeneeshed then. Did we win?

  • Comment number 87.


    Or did you lose?

    >8-D

  • Comment number 88.

    It was Henri's fault, talking about Jazz n' vampires , Theme that.

  • Comment number 89.

    #56
    haha

  • Comment number 90.


    Vampires suck!

  • Comment number 91.

    There's a crackin sunday jazz lunch in Glasgow City centre every week. A good excuse for an overdue blog get together?

  • Comment number 92.

    #91

    Your favourite piano bar is closed until summer.

  • Comment number 93.

    aye but this is roon the corner

  • Comment number 94.

    Really, Kelvingrove is never shut why not take a


  • Comment number 95.

    Thursday
    Since You Been Gone / Rainbow

    Graham Bonnet was the first so called 'heavy metal' singer I had ever seen with short hair. It was just so wrong and lacked credibility. He'd have been better keeping his Marbles wave.

  • Comment number 96.

    #93

    You sure, Paolo? Some of the bars around there you're liable to get a half-time feel and a pickup.

    Is it music for swingers?

    >8-D

  • Comment number 97.

    #81

    wouldn't it be easier to buy a red mini with a union jack roof and a couple of spotlights on the front?

  • Comment number 98.

    #96
    You go by the statue with the cone on it's heid but no quite as far as the fish place and go up the stairs. Best steaks in the whole of steakland. (Veggies also welcome. they can have my sidedish)

  • Comment number 99.

    #99
    quick someone bag #100 before DC

  • Comment number 100.

    #88, #90, #98

    Is that a stake in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

    >8-D

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