80s & 90s forgotten classics.

[57vintage]

Your Who gigs.. was one at Parkhead 76 ? I was there and enjoyed immensely ! Tho like many I thought SAHB stole the show. Was also at the Two-Tone tour in the Palis tho it was called something else by then. Saw the Psychedelic Fur there inaw. Major gigs in Aberdeen attended Led Zeppelin, Bowie, Neil Young, Free twice at the music hall sadly Koss was so out of his face at the second it was sad,

PS the limerick was supposed to be complimentary hope you took it as such.

The Who at Parkhead in June 76. Aye, I was there. Little Feat FFS!!! I'd seen The Who previously in October 75, touring the under-rated Who By Numbers.

Two Tone was at Ruffles, a Hass joint on Diamond Street, next to the Cosmo cinema.

The Free gig, where Rodgers tried manfully to pull Koss out of the Mandrax ditch he was in was my first big gig. 50 (FIFTY!) years ago last week.

I had an O grade exam the day that Bowie played at the Music Hall, so missed oot. Led Zeppelin sold out immediately, so being 50 miles distant I had no chance.

I think Neil Young was at the AECC? I only went once (Radiohead 97, in top form) and hated the sterility of the place. We had a gig at the auld Holiday Inn in Boxy the night Dylan played at the AECC, so I missed out.

Johnny Cash and the Carter Family (nae even sold out) at the Capitol about '93? Martin Stephenson and the Daintees touring Boat To Bolivia at the Venue on the first day of the fitba season in 199*?

In endless time. In endless art.

I saw the limerick, thanks, and took it as a compliment, although I only ken a little about a lot and make no claim to intellectualism.

[Bisconti's balls]

Here’s a thing. I’m an old **** (other adjectives are available - a stamped addressed envelope to stewarty should do it), and have seen hunners of gigs in my time eg The Clash on the White Riot tour, The Who twice with the original line-up, McCartney at The Capitol, the 1979 Two Tone tour, Suicide, the bravest, edgiest duo I’ve ever witnesed supporting The (underwhelming) Clash in 78, Mink de Ville trashing the Wilko-less headling Feelgoods, Buzzcocks, Free, Stiff Little Fingers, blah blah blah, but up in the top 5 would be August, Coati Mundi, THAT band, and of course the ED cure that was the Coconuts. Aberdeen Capitol, a Sunday evening around 1982, I only went because there was a buckshee ticket going. What. A. Show.

Well I'm only 47 but apart from seeing Billy Connelly stand up, 4 T in the parks and Madonna of all fkn people I've seen no other live artist or band.. seen a **** load @ T in the park but was always wasted by the first night.

[57vintage]

I first saw Billy Connolly in the Caley Hotel in Inverness in July 1974 when I had a summer job up there. Solo Concert, the breakthrough album had just been released. Supported by a cabaret band who dutifully played The Hits and the chicken-in-a-basket standards, but, obviously bored with the sanitised artificiality of it all, ended by saying, “Our favourite band is The Who. Our favourite album is Tommy. Here are some selections. You WOT??? And by ****, they rocked.

Connolly was incredible. We’d seen nothing like it. Like a turbo-charged Dave Allen, and it was sensational. Six weeks later he was on the Saturday night Parkinson show.

[stewarty27]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t4-zDem1Sk

This IMHO was the best song to come out of the 80s. Music sometimes makes me cry and this one certainly did.

[donsdaft]

Not a popular viewpoint on here I'm afraid.

Well meaning policies most often don't work because of greed ( and this time not the greed of the rich)

Free medical prescriptions are a case in point.

Now apparently, folk can just walk into a pharmacy and receive whatever they want, free of charge.
At least that's what they think.
This is turning our pharmacies into a bit of a battle ground with folk demanding stuff they're not entitled to, or the chemist doesn't have in stock, and going mental when they're told they can't have it.

Paracetamol, at 35p in the shops can be had "free" at a cost of £7.30* by the time it's processed through the NHS.

Utter madness of course, but try getting a politician of say it's a good idea to bring back charging for prescriptions.

Before Mason goes apoplectic at this "national socialist" point of view, I can say that I'm fully in favour of subsidised and free prescriptions but when an experiment fails it's a good idea to admit it .



* I can't remember the actual figure, but this is close.

[stewarty27]

Not a popular viewpoint on here I'm afraid.

Well meaning policies most often don't work because of greed ( and this time not the greed of the rich)

Free medical prescriptions are a case in point.

Now apparently, folk can just walk into a pharmacy and receive whatever they want, free of charge.
At least that's what they think.
This is turning our pharmacies into a bit of a battle ground with folk demanding stuff they're not entitled to, or the chemist doesn't have in stock, and going mental when they're told they can't have it.

Paracetamol, at 35p in the shops can be had "free" at a cost of £7.30* by the time it's processed through the NHS.

Utter madness of course, but try getting a politician of say it's a good idea to bring back charging for prescriptions.

Before Mason goes apoplectic at this "national socialist" point of view, I can say that I'm fully in favour of subsidised and free prescriptions but when an experiment fails it's a good idea to admit it .



* I can't remember the actual figure, but this is close.

You need to listen to yourself DD ! you are beginning to sound like a Daily Mail fanatic. "Scroungers" this n that. Scapegoating I believe it's called. ‘the true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members’. Said Gandhi or was it Jefferson. Any way this is a thread for music is it not ?

[donsdaft]

You need to listen to yourself DD ! you are beginning to sound like a Daily Mail fanatic. "Scroungers" this n that. Scapegoating I believe it's called. ‘the true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members’. Said Gandhi or was it Jefferson. Any way this is a thread for music is it not ?

Let's assume we all want to help societies's most vulnerable members.
The argument is how that's best done.
One of the first things that needs to be taken into account is how we afford to.

[stewarty27]

Let's assume we all want to help societies's most vulnerable members.
The argument is how that's best done.
One of the first things that needs to be taken into account is how we afford to.

Priorities old chap priorities.

[Red Zone]

Let's assume we all want to help societies's most vulnerable members.
The argument is how that's best done.
One of the first things that needs to be taken into account is how we afford to.

A good start would be stopping the utter ludicrous nonsense of giving out "free" this, that and the next thing to the entire population. It is nothing more than a barefaced election bribe to be giving free prescriptions/eye tests/University fees/dentist check-ups/bus passes/baby boxes etc etc etc to better off people who can well afford to pay for these things themselves

[donsdaft]

A good start would be stopping the utter ludicrous nonsense of giving out "free" this, that and the next thing to the entire population. It is nothing more than a barefaced election bribe to be giving free prescriptions/eye tests/University fees/dentist check-ups/bus passes/baby boxes etc etc etc to better off people who can well afford to pay for these things themselves

You're going to need to sit down and decide at which level you stop paying for your own medical care and opt into the NHS.

It was the Liberals who brought back the free eye test, not so sure about dental check ups though, we went so long without access to NHS dentistry that it's difficult to remember.



Things could be worse though, we could have the Labour party back with a meaningful say.