General Chat

as death tunes have been discussed.

Does anyone play a musical instrument or sing with a local choir?
If not, do you wish you had?
Do you listen to music and sway round the living room? Go to concerts? Festivals?

Don't be shy, hit me with your rhythm stick :-D

My living music is the same as my death tunes, Queen , Aerosmith, Metallica and any other heavy stuff played full blast :-D :-D :-D

I used to play the piano but haven't done for years now. If I had my time again I'd be a bass player.

Lots of concerts in the past too - first time seeing Alice cooper probably the best memory.

Nowadays it's cd's and YouTube though.

We had a piano teacher living next door when I was young and she offerd to teach me as a reward for going in and spending time with her elderly Mother. She gave up with me though when she realised I have a very small hand span :-D. I used to go to loads of gigs around London, Hyde Park, The Starlight Ballroom Greenford to name just a couple.

Thanks for replies :-D :-D

LB, mine are similar too but my go to at the mo' is The Mavericks but I wouldn't have them for my leaving party, except perhaps 'Back in your arms again'. Likewise Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard 'Okie from Muskogee' , my session starter, but it would be funny!

agingrocker, I would have liked piano lessons but was sent to ballet classes instead - I hated it! Would that e a double bass or bass guitar?
I saw Alice Cooper. possibly at the ? venue in Finsbury Park. Jimi Hendrix at Spalding (yep, in Lincs) was most memorable. Loads of others because that's what we did then - wouldn't go to overcrowded overpriced events now.

Oh and Glastonbury back in the early days :-D

I played the harmonica in my teens, tempted to get another :-D
Otherwise, YouTube on headphones.

LG, I've got big hands for a girlie, will I do? :-D
Did you ever go to the Greyhound in Fulham Palace Road? Saw Ian Dury there among others.
Dave Edmunds at the Hammersmith Palais and a few other places.
Screaming Lord Sutch, just about everywhere LOL

Oh and, not music but very rock and roll, Evel Knievel coming off his bike at Wembley :-D I'm sure crashing out was all part of the act so he could gasp into a reporters mic and say 'That was my last jump' - he was right every time LOL

I was born in North London and lived in a close area until 1970 so I went to Hammersmith, Camden etc. Can't remeber the Greyhound so possibly not. After 1970 it was Knebworth and the Local Corn Exchange as I moved up country :-D :-D

I have just been in seventh heaven watching Queen at Wembley on TV and having a good old sing along :-D :-D :-D

:-D :-D :-D @LG Headphones and the Travelling Wilburys for me, had a bit of Freddie earlier <3

I moved down country for 40 odd years in North and West London then back up again!

All those folk who aren't into music :-0 It's my life saver! :-D

How far up did you move ?I am in Bedfordshire :-)

Warwickshire :-)

Island I meant bass guitar. There's some cracking songs where the bass is the lead, thinking of Pink Floyd among others.

I remember the Greyhound too, I was never in it but used to hear the music from a nearby bus stop as my Dad lived in Shepherds Bush.

Small world aginrocker my Dad's family lived above their shop in Shepherds Bush Road :-D :-D

A bit further up country than me then Island :-D :-D :-D

agingrocker I haven't ventured back to Pink Floyd yet. Name a few numbers for me :-D
Shepherds Bush market was great - we might have stood at the same bus stop :-D Small theatre there too, over a pub, name escapes me.......

LG, I've been further up country - worked in Sheffield for a year. Any further north than that would give me vertigo :-D

Bob Jovi for me all the way! Would have loved to have seen him in concert back in the day but couldn't afford to go back then.

My grandmother was a piano teacher and taught me up to about 13 when I decided to play pop music on the piano and" one was not amused" lol Hence I kinda lost interest and thought pop music was more my thing like T Rex and David Bowie of course.

No musical instruments for me. We had a Joanna but the best I got was Chopstick :-0 :-0

Motown for me, I used to frequent the Tottenham Royal where I dance the night away and had to get up for work for next morning :-0

I figured if someone asked me to dance I should, so I ended up dancing with some weird and wonderful! :-0 :-0

I later frequented The Cricketers over a pub in South London, which played Bluebeat and Motown. It was a proper dive, small hall, dark with sweat running down the walls. If my Dad had known, he would not have been best pleased :-D :-D

Fave songs, Do I Love you, Frank Wilson, before Northern Soul cottoned on to it and Take Me In Your Arms and Love Me by Gladys Knight cos I heard it on a weekend end with me mate at Kings Lynn when we met some fellahs on the Pier;

Florence :-D I've heard of pop on the piano being frowned upon before, maybe afraid of it being rocked like Jerry Lee Lewis LOL

MtG... arrrgh! :-0 Did you even get asked for a slow dance by a sweaty cheese grater? Drip dry shirt and a string vest :-0 :-0 Still, a dance was a dance LOL
Take Me In Your Arms and Love Me <3 no one ever did :-(

:-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D Island

I think it might have been Yarmouth rather than Kings Lynn :-0 :-0

Island - virtually every number I think it's brilliant! Favourites are probably Time, High Hopes and the obligatory Comfortably Numb. I remember another pub in Shepherd's Bush, a few doors from the Tube Station, that had live music, I did go in once on my own and there was a hard rock band playing so loud that the place was shaking, I loved it.

Florence I was about 15 when I stopped playing, I had passed grade 5 but lost interest.

My grandmother taught privately and was a Minister's wife and no way as she played the organ for the church was she gonna allow me to even play "chop sticks" :-D :-D