any good books on the go?

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 13 Aug 2010, 13:18, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

Some book
on the Renaissance, assessing it from a commercial perspective.

It's actually rather good, 'reading' famous paintings of the period and showing what they tell us about attitudes to the huge trade & commerce boom of the time.

I like it.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 13 Aug 2010, 13:23, Reply)

that sounds interesting
and far more worthy than my current book
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 13 Aug 2010, 13:25, Reply)

There's an unspoken arrangement in my block
whereby if you no longer have need of a book/CD/item of clothing or furniture/whatever, you leave it in the stairwell next to my door for a day or two to see if anyone wants it, before getting rid of it another way.
This is particularly good as someone upstairs works for a publishing house so there are books galore going begging. Mainly shit ones, but I have got some excellent reads that way.

What're you reading then?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 13 Aug 2010, 13:34, Reply)

I'm reading some Horatio Hornblower today
and I read Tipping the Velvet and a collection of essays on gender in medieval Europe yesterday.

I may also reread I, Claudius today
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 13 Aug 2010, 13:37, Reply)

I, Clavdivs

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 13 Aug 2010, 13:42, Reply)

I see dead people.

(BrianHequator was stretching owls, on, or around, Fri 13 Aug 2010, 13:42, Reply)

I am the god of hell fire.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 13 Aug 2010, 13:59, Reply)

I like breasts.

(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Fri 13 Aug 2010, 14:01, Reply)

I am immortal, I have inside me blood of kings.

(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Fri 13 Aug 2010, 14:01, Reply)

iphone

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 13 Aug 2010, 14:02, Reply)

I'm here! Kill me!

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 13 Aug 2010, 14:03, Reply)

I was going to say
'from the sublime to the ridiculous in one step' then I remembered that Arthur Brown was in many ways considerably more ridiculous than Freddie Mercury.

So I didn't.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 13 Aug 2010, 14:06, Reply)

But did Arthur Brown ever have a party where (allegedly)
dwarves walked around with bowls of cocaine for the guests to help themselves.

I used to see Arthur Brown quite a lot in my old favourite pub. Then bizarrely I saw him in a pub in Croydon watching a Led Zep tribute band.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 13 Aug 2010, 14:13, Reply)

He was fantastic in his day.
I'd have approached him for chats about the 'good old days' before I was born and the world was thus ruined.

His first LP has no guitar on it, fact fans.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 13 Aug 2010, 14:16, Reply)

and his stuff with Kingdom Come is superb.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 13 Aug 2010, 14:17, Reply)

what an outrage
with the purchase of my new guitar we will soon be taking 6 guitars and a banjo to gigs with us, for just two of us to use.

We need to find bigger venues.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 13 Aug 2010, 14:18, Reply)

What you need is a scale model of Stonehenge.

(Bazongaloid, Fri 13 Aug 2010, 14:19, Reply)

we played a gig the other day
and when a guy from another bandwas setting up the microphones he tested one saying "this is mike number 1, this is mike number 1, isn't this a lot of fun"

he got a bit of a laugh from the audience at the time, and I wanted to shout thief at him.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 13 Aug 2010, 14:29, Reply)

Why?
Do you normally do that?

I would have thought you would have just walked up to the mic and slowly and lovingly unwrapped a croissant before devouring it.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 13 Aug 2010, 14:31, Reply)

it's because he stole it straight from spinal tap
and hence the laughter was stolen.

I don't have anything to do with microphones, other than occasionally pointing one at my amp.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 13 Aug 2010, 14:34, Reply)

I watched a bit of Prog Rock Britannia the other day
Arthur Brown was interviewed. He was indeed crazy.

I also watched some of Jethro Tull live at the Isle of Wight. They were nuts as well.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 13 Aug 2010, 14:14, Reply)

Jethro Tull were the first band I saw live
At the tender age of 10. My dad got me into them, and took me to see them on the Rock Island tour as a treat.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 13 Aug 2010, 14:15, Reply)

My first gig
was Motorhead I think
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 13 Aug 2010, 14:32, Reply)

Good start!

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 13 Aug 2010, 14:52, Reply)

Roger Glover from Deep Purple left to join Jethro Tull at one point
(at least I think it was him) and he soon left and rejoined purple when he realised that Ian Anderson hated everyone in his band and wouldn't even have dinner at the same table as them.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 13 Aug 2010, 14:16, Reply)

Ian Anderson is a strange chap
runs a fish farm.

Deep purple probably weren't much better for arguments. Ritchie Blackmore was/is a freak too.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 13 Aug 2010, 14:17, Reply)

freak legendary cunt.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 13 Aug 2010, 14:18, Reply)

that too

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 13 Aug 2010, 14:18, Reply)

so does Roger Daltrey.
What is it with our rock legends and fish farming?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 13 Aug 2010, 14:30, Reply)

who knows
lucrative and relatively stress free I imagine.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 13 Aug 2010, 14:35, Reply)

Probably because the rest of the band
Kept pushing him over every time he stood on one leg.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 13 Aug 2010, 14:17, Reply)

You would though, wouldn't you?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 13 Aug 2010, 14:18, Reply)

Damn right!
Then lob one of those massive balloons that they rolled into the crowd at him.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 13 Aug 2010, 14:19, Reply)

You want to check out
Arthur Brown at Glastonbury '71: truly unsettling and his band are fucking ACE.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 13 Aug 2010, 14:27, Reply)

t me blood my mouth spunk
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 13 Aug 2010, 14:13, Reply)