The Medusa Fora

My ex bought me the guitar. A strat copy (not too shabby) and i can play a handfull of songs after, 5 lessons and lots of practise.
Cant explain
laid
waiting for the great leap forward

to name a few. Its the first guitar i have ever played properly although i can just about play ukelele

tis' noice to hear yar doin' great
maybe ukelele knowledge gave ya additional push to yar speedy progress?

IrishRover wrote:tis' noice to hear yar doin' great
maybe ukelele knowledge gave ya additional push to yar speedy progress?

No i dont think so. I beleive unemployment is the key!! maybe all potential Townshends should try it. Today was my first day at the Airport job. saving for uni. i learnt you "should not sniff" dangerous chemicals.

DownInTheGround wrote:Today was my first day at the Airport job. saving for uni. i learnt you "should not sniff" dangerous chemicals.

How else will you know if they're dangerous?

DownInTheGround wrote:
No i dont think so. I beleive unemployment is the key!!

unemployment? then oim gonna do ok too
but then again, twould be noice to work sth loike our guitar master Philip doid in the early days, oimagine having a job where ya actually can work whoile practoising guitar and the work itself is based among music records - that remoinds me, does it stoill exist that music store where Mr. Chevron worked? oim a volunteeeeer !!!

IrishRover wrote:

DownInTheGround wrote:
No i dont think so. I beleive unemployment is the key!!

unemployment? then oim gonna do ok too
but then again, twould be noice to work sth loike our guitar master Philip doid in the early days, oimagine having a job where ya actually can work whoile practoising guitar and the work itself is based among music records - that remoinds me, does it stoill exist that music store where Mr. Chevron worked? oim a volunteeeeer !!! ]

If its Rock On in Camden then no,it no longer exists Orish. damn fine shop it was too. bought ny first Flyng Buritto Brothers album there in the days when i seemed to be in Camden a lot.

trashcity wrote:bought ny first Flyng Buritto Brothers album there

Funny, The Pogues and The Flying Buritto Brothers are my #1 & 2 bands of all time. their work seems to stand up forever.

trashcity wrote:If its Rock On in Camden then no,it no longer exists Orish. damn fine shop it was too. bought ny first Flyng Buritto Brothers album there in the days when i seemed to be in Camden a lot.

oim sorry to hear that, it surely was unique and a place woith sporit.. they should have kept it opened!

IrishRover wrote:

trashcity wrote:If its Rock On in Camden then no,it no longer exists Orish. damn fine shop it was too. bought ny first Flyng Buritto Brothers album there in the days when i seemed to be in Camden a lot.

oim sorry to hear that, it surely was unique and a place woith sporit.. they should have kept it opened!

Well, I only ever played guitar there for the benefit of Billy Magra's cameras, and only then because I was on my way up to a soundcheck at the Town and Country at the other end of Kentish Town Road. But I spent four years at Rock On and loved every minute of it. I got to meet Doug Sahm and Augie Meyers the very first week I was there. Bob Dunham (currently working with the Pogues tracking down our master tapes in the Warners vaults) was the manager and taught me more about country, jazz, blues, rnb, soul and rock n roll than I could ever have figured out myself. We had erudite customers too, among them Elvis Costello, Robert Plant, Alan Bennett, Bob Dylan, Billy Childish, Tracey Emin.............

It is indeed a great shame it's no longer there. The escalating rents when Camden became Yuppified eventually defeated Ted Carroll. It briefly became another record store and is now, as far as I know, a convenience store. At least it's not a freakin' Starbucks.

oi agree, by the descroption of it and due to so roich hoistory oid vote for Rock On to be saved as some loive cultural monument! tis' not fair to see good stuff goin' down as voictim of corporate society

IrishRover wrote:tis' not fair to see good stuff goin' down as voictim of corporate society

How is high rent due to neighborhood gentrification the same as being a "voictim of corporate society"? It's not like a Wal*Mart opened up next door and undercut their prices.

And for those of you in Ireland (or otherwise acquainted with the "generic" Irish accent) - have you ever heard someone pronounce "victim" as "voictim"? My inner voice reads the first as "vik-tim", the other as "voyk-tim", and rebels. I refuse to believe that this is actually representative of the Irish accent or speaking pattern that our Oirish longs for.

DzM wrote:And for those of you in Ireland (or otherwise acquainted with the "generic" Irish accent) - have you ever heard someone pronounce "victim" as "voictim"? My inner voice reads the first as "vik-tim", the other as "voyk-tim", and rebels. I refuse to believe that this is actually representative of the Irish accent or speaking pattern that our Oirish longs for.

Oi agree. The accent is feckin' shyte this toime.

Michaelo wrote:Oi agree. The accent is feckin' shyte this toime.

Oirish-English dictionary: "this toime" = "the last several months"?

me views & accent aren't exactly caged anoimals.. essence matters
so rents aren't profoitable category? maybe Sam Walton took the fortune from rentoing and founded next chain of profoits called Walmart

IrishRover wrote:me views & accent aren't exactly caged anoimals.. essence matters

This has nothing to do with your views. It has to do with your approximation of an Irish accent.

You've said before that you're embracing the Irish spirit and culture, and that one of the ways you're doing it is by writing in a way that reads like an Irish accent. I agree that some of your phonetic constructs do this, but many of them are just gibberish. I don't imagine you'll find many people in Ireland that pronounce "animals" as "an-oy-mals," "profitable" would not often "prof-oyt-able," and "renting" I hope would never be "rent-oyng" (that, to me, is how your words in this post "sound" when I read them). That's just farce.

I'm not asking you to stop. I just don't understand why you're going to such great lengths to make your writing unpleasant to read. Some people seem to invest a large amount of energy in making their writing a chore to read. It makes me wonder why they bother writing if they want to discourage others from considering the words.

so rents aren't profoitable category? maybe Sam Walton took the fortune from rentoing and founded next chain of profoits called Walmart

There are a lot of causes for neighborhood gentrification. It's a stretch to blame higher rent on "corporate society" though.

If your point is that people are preferring to shop at chain stores and malls rather than independent music shops, and that this general trend toward centralized corporate management is responsible for Rock On closing, then OK. Now your "victim of corporate society" comment makes sense. That's not what Philip said though. He said that the owner was unable to keep pace with the increased rents that resulted from the neighborhood becoming "yuppiefied."