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Forsythia
Don't care
Geezer was in Judas Priest, not poison
I don't do maths.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 19:48, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)
Geezer Butler was in Black Sabbath.

(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 19:49, Reply)
Good point.
Oh the shame.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 19:50, Reply)
And lacking two fingertips
He's done fairly well.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 19:53, Reply)
Not as well as the def leopards drummer.

(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 19:54, Reply)
Fair enough
And although I don't care for that genre you must tip your hat to him.

Dury made his disabilaties a central part of his act, although he was, apparently, an utter knobcheese about it.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 19:58, Reply)
Yes, a knob who made some great songs
shame the two so often go hand in hand.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 20:00, Reply)
I've written LOADS of great songs.

(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 20:02, Reply)
Too easy.

(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 20:04, Reply)
Saw him live twice
Incredible frontman, but with a substandard band.

The Blockheads - original version - was one of the best musical lineups ever.

Quiz question - The Blockheads had two number one singles. What was the second?
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 20:06, Reply)
Not a clue, I am a recent convert to Mr Dury
Spasticus? I doubt it, but I love that song.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 20:08, Reply)
No
He'd told them to fuck off by that point so they did something else.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 20:09, Reply)
sex and drugs and rock n roll?

(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 20:10, Reply)
No - think about Norman Watt-Roy's bass
They weren't credited but they played on a HUGE hit by some talentless fuckers.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 20:13, Reply)
Oh shit, I know this one.
Frankie Goes to Hollywood- Relax.

Amirite?
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 20:15, Reply)
Winner!
The Blockheads were the studio band for Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

The bass gives it away - Norman Watt-Roy is one of the greatest bassists of our time.

Would you like to pass your award to Wikipedia?
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 20:18, Reply)
I didn't wiki it, until I realised I knew it.
I genuinely remembered it, typed answer here, then checked on wiki just to see if I was indeed correck. I an' I was correck an ting.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 20:20, Reply)
Worth remembering
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic0tVFYvRZ0

The poor fucker miming lead doesn't even realise he's miming a bass line.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 20:36, Reply)
Tut tut.
And me an ignorant, nigger music fan.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 19:53, Reply)
You said it racist, not me.

(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 19:54, Reply)
But you what?

(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 19:55, Reply)
tsk, bigoted and short sighted.

(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 19:56, Reply)
Ninja editor.

(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 19:57, Reply)
Karate proofreader;

(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 19:58, Reply)
And it was ironylols.
I get very bored very quickly when I encounter the whole 'white people thinking they're black' thing about honkies that like hip hop. You don't hear it about house, and house is just as much 'black' music as hip hop is.

Yegetmeh?
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 19:56, Reply)
you ever hear that shit from me you can slap me.
I dislike (some of) your taste in music because its shit,not because of the (possible) skin colour of the performers.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 19:59, Reply)
Nice to hedge you...
To hedge you nice!
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 19:55, Reply)

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