Joke thread

blue44 said:
I bought that album as a 14 year old in 1979,its still ace now,I remember one of the photos in the LP sleeve had a rag scarf that had been thrown on stage for him though,he was a rag wasn't he ?
His mum ran a pub in Manchester i think. Johny the fox was about the Manc underworld,jimmy the weed etc part of the quality street gang.
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Definitely a rag.
 
blue44 said:
I bought that album as a 14 year old in 1979,its still ace now,I remember one of the photos in the LP sleeve had a rag scarf that had been thrown on stage for him though,he was a rag wasn't he ?
His mum ran a pub in Manchester i think. Johny the fox was about the Manc underworld,jimmy the weed etc part of the quality street gang.
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He probably was a rag. It would have been pretty common over here. But he was cool. Just born cool.
I recently put a couple of tracks on a playlist that were really early recordings where he is almost rapping. It’s not rap though, it’s almost like musical poetry where he mentions local places like Clontarf Castle. In their early days they were staying in a flat/bed sit across the road from the castle.
The bloke made anything sound cool.
 
blue44 said:
I bought that album as a 14 year old in 1979,its still ace now,I remember one of the photos in the LP sleeve had a rag scarf that had been thrown on stage for him though,he was a rag wasn't he ?
His mum ran a pub in Manchester i think. Johny the fox was about the Manc underworld,jimmy the weed etc part of the quality street gang.
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I thought Johnny Foxes was a bar/venue in Dublin
 
nmc said:
I thought Johnny Foxes was a bar/venue in Dublin
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After yesterday's gentle fox in the snow from Belle and Sebastian, we turn to a fox of a different kind in a fabulous rock and funk number from the Irish band's 1976 album Johnny The Fox. This fox is the notorious 1920s Italian Chicago gangster Johnny Torrio, in many ways the original godfather, who was mentor to Al Capone (who took over after an assassination attempt on Torrio), and also put forward the idea of the National Crime Syndicate. In this song the band set up a fantasy scenario of him meeting legendary Manchester club and pub scene gangster Jimmy 'The Weed' Donnelly, something of character in the north-west. who was a key figure in the Quality Street Gang in the 1970s and 80s and the police-scandal Stalker Affair. Unusual for their men of their profile, Johnny and Jimmy managed not to get killed in their careers, and later retired to a life of straight living.

But alongside the amusing fantasy narrative of dodgy dealings and banter, the real strength of this song is the super-tight dirty rock funk music, joining Phil Lynott on bass and vocals and Brian Downey on drums, the classic lineup of Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson on guitars. Not to afraid to mix up figures from different times and places, band Lynott refers to, Hoodoo Rhythm Devils, were a blues-funk band from San Francisco in the early 70s.
 
blue44 said:
After yesterday's gentle fox in the snow from Belle and Sebastian, we turn to a fox of a different kind in a fabulous rock and funk number from the Irish band's 1976 album Johnny The Fox. This fox is the notorious 1920s Italian Chicago gangster Johnny Torrio, in many ways the original godfather, who was mentor to Al Capone (who took over after an assassination attempt on Torrio), and also put forward the idea of the National Crime Syndicate. In this song the band set up a fantasy scenario of him meeting legendary Manchester club and pub scene gangster Jimmy 'The Weed' Donnelly, something of character in the north-west. who was a key figure in the Quality Street Gang in the 1970s and 80s and the police-scandal Stalker Affair. Unusual for their men of their profile, Johnny and Jimmy managed not to get killed in their careers, and later retired to a life of straight living.

But alongside the amusing fantasy narrative of dodgy dealings and banter, the real strength of this song is the super-tight dirty rock funk music, joining Phil Lynott on bass and vocals and Brian Downey on drums, the classic lineup of Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson on guitars. Not to afraid to mix up figures from different times and places, band Lynott refers to, Hoodoo Rhythm Devils, were a blues-funk band from San Francisco in the early 70s.
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I once served summonses on Donnelly whilst he was at Manchester Crown Court . His Barrister and 2 minders were not happy with me but I was a tenacious little bastard back then.
 
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