Ancient Brits, HOW could they do it!

Subject: RE: Ancient Brits, HOW could they do it!
From: InOBU
Date: 18 Dec 00 - 08:00 PM

As my dad said, just before he died, "If I knew I was going to get this old, I'da taken better care of myself!"

Subject: RE: Ancient Brits, HOW could they do it!
From: Gary T
Date: 18 Dec 00 - 07:31 PM

Rick, I saw that show. I was rather impressed with a few of the singers--Wayne Fontana, Eric Burdon (sort of), and the Troggs guy. Gerry was a bit past it, Billy J. Kramer was lame, and Herman was pathetic. Overall it was mildly entertaining, but I'm sure glad I didn't pay money to see it!

Subject: RE: Ancient Brits, HOW could they do it!
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Dec 00 - 07:12 PM

"I grow old...I grow old..
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.....
Do I dare to eat a peach?"

The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock

Subject: RE: Ancient Brits, HOW could they do it!
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 18 Dec 00 - 06:39 PM

I will never grow old so if we should meet just lie!

Subject: RE: Ancient Brits, HOW could they do it!
From: Ebbie
Date: 18 Dec 00 - 05:44 PM

Troll- I shoulda known- you're a Sagittarian too! (Mine November 28)

Subject: RE: Ancient Brits, HOW could they do it!
From: Bert
Date: 18 Dec 00 - 05:42 PM

OK Troll, you get on one side of folkcensor, and I'll get on the other and we'll see to it that he gets his wish;-)

Subject: RE: Ancient Brits, HOW could they do it!
From: Troll
Date: 18 Dec 00 - 05:38 PM

Growing older is mandatory. Growing old is NOT!

Troll ***who turned 60 last week.(dec.12)***

Subject: RE: Ancient Brits, HOW could they do it!
From: GUEST,folkcensor
Date: 18 Dec 00 - 05:29 PM

I hope I die before I get old.

Subject: RE: Ancient Brits, HOW could they do it!
From: InOBU
Date: 18 Dec 00 - 04:42 PM

Well the Blues Project can still do it, though it embarasses them... but not their fans. Al Cooper made appolgies to the audience for the Eric Anderson lyric "Whirling twrilling puppy-warm before the flashing cloaks of darkness dawn..." on Al's 50 birthday reuinon, but they were great. I made the mistake of having a chat with Danny Kalb and touched two topics to which Danny, who looks like a past middle age cab driver took umberage - and I jokingly say unfortunately, as it was a real pleasure to wag gums with him... first, mentioned to him that my sister in law used to date Tommy Flanders, to which Danny expressed the heart felt hope that someone might murder him, "we were on the verge of making it when that **^*%$&^%$ signed with folkways and *&^%ed us all, and it did him no good eather that stupid (*&$&^ of a *&(%&%!!!!" Then he asked what I had been up to, and I told him I had been working on a few cases with Bill Kunstler, to which he said, "That's the lousy bastard who is defending the bastards who tried to blow up tower records, isn't it, I hate that bum!" Well, I guess years of reported over indulgence in substances which the AMA does not recomend for human consumption and could get one locked up in 50 states explains the shift from the world trade center towers to tower records, but anyway, the band was great and brought me back. In the audience was an old friend from my childhood who was also a Blues Project fan, who has been a corporate lawyer, so we hadn't seen each other before or since, and until Al Cooper is 60, I don't think we will...
Larry

Subject: RE: Ancient Brits, HOW could they do it!
From: Dave Swan
Date: 18 Dec 00 - 04:14 PM

Well, it is Gerry and the Pacemakers, isn 't it?

Subject: RE: Ancient Brits, HOW could they do it!
From: Mark Clark
Date: 18 Dec 00 - 04:13 PM

I saw the doo-wop program and just loved it. It really took me back as well. But, the thing Rick described sounds gruesome, glad I missed it.

      - Mark

Subject: RE: Ancient Brits, HOW could they do it!
From: Bert
Date: 18 Dec 00 - 04:10 PM

And just what's WRONG with being 60 something?????

Bert ;-)

Subject: RE: Ancient Brits, HOW could they do it!
From: Morticia
Date: 18 Dec 00 - 04:03 PM

As frightening as this may be to you Rick, they HAVE been working, all of these sad old dears get regular gigs at 60's weekends and shows over here.And people seem to like it!

Subject: RE: Ancient Brits, HOW could they do it!
From: Ebbie
Date: 18 Dec 00 - 04:00 PM

Right, Troll! I was amazed to realize how much I loved the music! When Sam Cooke died, it was a major loss.

Ebbie

Subject: RE: Ancient Brits, HOW could they do it!
From: Troll
Date: 18 Dec 00 - 03:54 PM

Ebbie, I wish I'd seen that. I LOVE doo-wop.
Well I wonda wonda who and I wonda WHO! Who wrote the book of love....

troll ***sigh***

Subject: RE: Ancient Brits, HOW could they do it!
From: Ebbie
Date: 18 Dec 00 - 03:37 PM

That's just too funny, Rick!

A week or two ago PBS ran a special on the doo-wop era (anyone here besides me old enough to remember?) and many of the original singers and bands appeared.

Luckily, I had been into the music in those years, so they were not a shocking change to me- I was just kind of surprised that they were still alive- and with the original choreagraphed movements intact!

Ebbie

Subject: Ancient Brits, HOW could they do it!
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 18 Dec 00 - 03:30 PM

I'm still in shock, but I gotta talk to somebody about this.

Four nights ago, I was staring daze-like at the tube and button pushing. Probably staring out the window as well, 'cause when I heard the strains of "Ferry Cross The Mersey" being mangled by some amateur, I turned and beheld a frightening sight. The little elderly fat man destroying one of my favourite songs WAS Gerry Marsden!!

As part of their fundraising, PBS had acquired a video of British bands who were popular in the early sixties.....and have returned (almost) from the grave to perform once again. It is positively Ghoulish!

The audience of thirty and forty somethings had been pre-programmed with the lyrics (apparently) and sang and (sort of) danced along to Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, Herman's Hermits, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas and THE TROGGS(!!) A black singer who did "Build Me Up Buttercup" fared better (at least he looked like he'd WORKED in the last fourty years)

Peter Noone has been seen a bit over here a few times advertising "oldies" shows so he wasn't as much of a shock, but the lead singer from the Troggs may be the most frightening thing I've seen since the Excorsist. Obviously 60 something with died jet black hair and the weirdest expression immaginable, he crouched and hopped around the stage intoning "Wild Thing".....well you hadda be there.

Geez we're lucky to be folkies. We can sing away into our dotage sitting on stools, until we fall off them and croak.

Did anyone else see this? Oh and by the way, a couple of nights later I caught Charlie Watts' Jazz band. All slick and cool with the ex-Stone in a dignified white suit brushing out the rhythm. In his video, he even gets the girl! (and he's pushing 70!)

Rick