A FEW RANDOM COMMENTS

"Thanks to Butterfly for HER lovely post, three years ago, and the other posters who helped me refire some glorious synapses, tonight."

Ahem, I am not now or have I ever been a member of the female sex; I just posted as "Butterfly" in the past as Butterfly spotting is a hobby of mine! Perhaps I should have thrown in a few references to Football or Beer (though with the rise of the "Ladette" I suppose that is not much help these days) to remove any doubt about my gender.

I always thought the lyrics of "White Bird" included "And feel his heart sucked to his HEAD
His head so wide that all life serves (or possibly "says")
Has room to live, and breathe, and have its being.."

I am sure the ISB wouldn't have worried about the odd bit that doesn't rhyme in those days.

Such a pity that since they reformed a few years ago with the original 3 personnel, they split up again not long afterwards. I have a CD with just Clive Palmer and Mike Heron on it, but sadly when they do songs on which Robin Williamson was the original singer, some of the excitement is lacking.

I would recommend all the ISB LPs except "No Ruinous Feud", but though The Hangmans Beautiful Daughter seems to be the overall favourite, I preferred Wee Tam and the Big Huge (but then I prefer Abbey Road to Sergeant Pepper).

"First GIRK I Loved" - typo or Mondegreen (presumably the former; on the other hand possibly a variation song by Mrs. Bill Gates ("First Geek I Loved")? Funny this is not one of my favourites (October Song if you are interested, not just because I was born in October - I first heard it in February 1973).