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BongoBlue said:
Kind of a mixture really. Noel used to do a lot of old Buddy Holly, Everly Brothers type of stuff but mixed in a couple of Hendrix choons like "Hey Joe". Especially with Mitch there which was bloody amazing. I warbled couple of Dire Straits tunes as well, as I recall. Like I say, I didn't have a camera too...it really was a fantastic session.
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I read back in the day that Noel was a guitarist but agreed to play Bass in the Hendrix band. I always admired Mitch drumming, he could play any style it seems, Awesome, what a memory for you.
What town was this ?
 
Bill Walker said:
I read back in the day that Noel was a guitarist but agreed to play Bass in the Hendrix band. I always admired Mitch drumming, he could play any style it seems, Awesome, what a memory for you.
What town was this ?
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You're right. Noel was a guitarist originally. He went to audition for the Animals as a guitarist but they had already found one by the time Noel got there, so his agent said something along the lines of: "Well there's a weird looking bloke in another room who plays guitar who's looking for a bassist". Well the rest is history...
Noel really was an excellent acoustic and rhythm guitarist though all right.
Clonakilty is the town. Best little town in Ireland. But of course I am utterly biased...;)
 
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Thatchergate was the colloquial title of a hoax perpetrated by members of the anarcho-punk band Crass during the aftermath of the 1982 Falklands War. Using excerpts from speeches by Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, a recording was spliced together which purported to be a telephone conversation between the two leaders. During the course of the tape Reagan seems to state his intention to use Europe as a battle front to show the Soviet leaders the US's resolve in a nuclear conflict, whilst Thatcher appears to imply that HMS Sheffield was deliberately sacrificed in order to escalate the Falklands war.

When the recording first surfaced into the public domain in 1983, it was initially considered by the US State Department to have been propaganda produced by the Soviet KGB, a story reported by both the San Francisco Chronicand The Sunday Times. However, coverage of the tape by the UK broadsheet The Observer in January 1984 identified the true source as Crass.Crass have stated that great care was taken to ensure their anonymity, and that to this day it is a mystery as to how Observer journalists were able to trace the hoax back to them.

In January 2014 official government documents were released to the National Archives revealing the concerns of the UK's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). A Foreign Office adviser's letter to Thatcher said: "This looks like a rather clumsy operation. We have no evidence so far about who is responsible. ...SIS doubt whether this is a Soviet operation. It is possible that one of the Argentine intelligence services might have been behind it; or alternatively it might be the work of left-wing groups in this country
 
BimboBob said:
A-ha were Norwegian physicists in the early 80's.Being a country a bit behind the rest of the world they got their name when their lead singer Horton Market jumped into a hot bath and had to leap out shouting "a-ha" and subsequently discovered he suddenly understood that the volume of water displaced must be equal to the volume of the part of his body he had submerged.
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Ah ha. Pull the other one.
 
J.G.Blue. said:
The Boys Are Back in Town song by Thin Lizzy is thought to have been written about a bunch of criminals who used to drink it the Clifton Grange Hotel in Whalley Range,
Phil Lynotts mum used to help run the place & Phil used to drink in there sometimes, two members of the gang were nicknamed Jimmy the Weed & Johnny the Fox.
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The QSG.

They’ve actually got a song called “Johnny The Fox Meets Jimmy The Weed” about the two QSG members:
 
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