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Love this album White Mansions and it has some stellar names that play on it......


Released in June 1978 and produced by the legendary Glyn Johns, White Mansions paints a musical portrait of The American Civil War.

It features the illustrious talents of Waylon Jennings and his then wife, Jessi Colter, Eagles guitarist Bernie Leadon, along with Eric Clapton, and John Dillon and Steve Cash of the Ozark Mountain Daredevils.

For an album that’s almost structured like a mini-series, it needed a romantic interest, provided by Jessi Colter, who plays Matthew’s sweetheart, Polly Ann Stafford.

Rounding out the cast is Rodena Preston (sister to Billy Preston) and her 40-strong choir as the ‘Voices of Deliverance’.



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White Mansions Bad Man
 
Watching this the now.....

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Goose bumps!

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Beluga Lagoon - A wee gem of a Scottish band from the highlands.
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One more from them
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Two Headed Boy said:
Working at home today and spinning some vinyl in the background

I've my copy of the American pressing of The Clash's self titled debut on just now and I'll put my tin hat on and say I prefer it to the original UK release. I mean you could swap out almost any song on any album for Complete Control and White Man and you'd be making an improvement, right?

US version:

Side One:
"Clash City Rockers"
"I'm So Bored with the USA"
"Remote Control"
"Complete Control"
"White Riot"
"(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais"
"London's Burning"
"I Fought the Law

Side Two:
"Janie Jones"
"Career Opportunities"
"What's My Name"
"Hate & War"
"Police & Thieves"
"Jail Guitar Doors"
"Garageland"

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Both magnificent
 
fieryjack said:
NMTB and 'New Rose' by the Damned are the album and single were immediate and made the most instant impact on my teenage self.

Going along to the Apollo and other small venues several times a month from 1979-84 will never be beaten. The Fall, Skids, DEVO, Ramones, Sham 69, Rezillos, Jam, Undertones, Boomtown Rats, Siouxsie, Cramps, Jam, Undertones, Teardrop Explodes, Orange Juice, Gang of Four, Pere Ubu, Delta Five, Adam and the Ants, Bow Wow Wow, Specials, Selecter, Madness, Talk Talk, Simple Minds, Echo and the Bunnymen, Altered Images, Fire Engines, Vapors, PiL.... the list goes on.

There was never a better time for music IMO.....but everyone will have their own memories.....
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My first 6 gigs = Skids - Clash - Ramones - Clash - AC/DC - Damned/Ruts
 
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The dogs...
 
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Incredibly underrated band, loved the Tube
 
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Incredibly underrated band, loved the Tube
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Both those tracks are stand outs from their 1st album "Especially For You" which I bought on release in 1986 and still have.
Also have their 3rd album "11" but my memory is that it's not as good as the first two and I stopped buying at that point.

Their main songwriter was singer and guitarist Pat DiNizio who died in 2017, aged 62, after a couple of years of health issues.
A sad end.
 
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Jack K said:
Both those tracks are stand outs from their 1st album "Especially For You" which I bought on release in 1986 and still have.
Also have their 3rd album "11" but my memory is that it's not as good as the first two and I stopped buying at that point.

Their main songwriter was singer and guitarist Pat DiNizio who sadly he died in 2017 aged 62 after a couple of years of health issues.
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Yes mate, Especially and their second album Green Thoughts are bangers. The albums after that are a mixed bag but with some great melodies and tracks like this to be found.
 
Sancho Panza said:
I was also listening to The Long Ryders and The Rainmakers at the time who were in a similar vein iirc.
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I remember exactly where I was on a sunny day in 1984 when I heard the first track on the Long Ryders 1st album "Native Sons".
Listened to the rest of the album and picked up a copy a few hours later. Bought all their albums as they came out but always loved that 1st album.

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anti-remaster said:
Love the Long Ryders, the Scorchers too. Used to listen to a lot of Peel, Janice Long, Andy Kershaw who played a lot of great guitar bands like The Godfathers, Catherine Wheel and the Screaming Blue Messiahs.
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Jason And The Scorchers I first heard in 1983. I think I heard "Harvest Moon" and excitedly fired off to the record store to buy their 7 track EP "Fervor"
I don't think their first album proper came out until 1985

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Jack K said:
Jason And The Scorchers I first heard in 1983. I think I heard "Harvest Moon" and excitedly fired off to the record store to buy their 7 track EP "Fervor"
I don't think their first album proper came out until 1985

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Lost and Found, saw them in Edinburgh then, got tickets via radio forth, they destroyed the place...
 
Jack K said:
I remember exactly where I was on a sunny day in 1984 when I heard the first track on the Long Ryders 1st album "Native Sons".
Listened to the rest of the album and picked up a copy a few hours later. Bought all their albums as they came out but always like that 1st album.

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It was State of Our Union that got me into them. Think I've seen Sid Griffin solo or I may have imagined it. 🤔
 
Sancho Panza said:
It was State of Our Union that got me into them. Think I've seen Sid Griffin solo or I may have imagined it. 🤔
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Sons is a classic alt country album, probably one of the first. State is great too, have the 3cd box of that. Think they play Glasgow in November.
 
EH17 Jimmy said:
The Old Grey Whistle Test from the weege in 1975.....


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Nazareth, my fave Scottish band. Dan McCafferty, what a vocal range! Maggie Bell, lungs of a 40 a day glassblower! Both so underated. Luv 'em.
 
fieryjack said:
I agree with you. Even if I now sound like my parents did when I have the misfortune to hear a 'chart' radio station as I KNOW that I am not wrong.
For example, I have joiners in just now working in the living room and they have some bloody awful radio station on....say you, say me.....phil collins.....other guff. It appears to me that folk don't go out of their way to discover music the ways that we used to do.

Anyway, having seen the excellent Blancmange at the weekend I am upstairs in the office working through 16 cds of their back catalogue and various offshoots just now at a level that drowns out the insufferable garbage that is polluting the downstairs airwaves.

On another note, I am delighted to say that I have managed to secure tickets for all three upcoming LCD Soundsystem gigs at Barrowland in June and July . Flying solo on the 1st and 2nd July shows so if anyone of you dudes with impeccable taste want to meet up before let me know.

Cannae wait!

fj
np : Blancmange 'Blanc Burn'

FFS!....just heard Fat Larrys Band 'Zoom' there between songs....which confirms my earlier opinion.
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I was 14 in 1960 and I never had to go out of my way to discover music. Before 1960 there was no UK music scene. just bland covers of American stuff. Then from around 1962 the music found me. UK bands exploded and conquered the globe. They say if you remember the 60s then you weren't really there. Bollocks. I was there and I'm still here and I remember every bit of it (musically anyway). 1963 - 1990. So glad I had my time there. Each to their own of course, and I've got mine!

I think people's music interests lie mainly in the music from their formative years and then gets rounded with stuff from the past and stuff that follows their life path. Everyone has their own depth of interest. I follow this thread and have been pleasantly surprised by quite a lot of the contributions on here and made the aquaintance of many more bands than I expected.
 
Sancho Panza said:
It was State of Our Union that got me into them. Think I've seen Sid Griffin solo or I may have imagined it. 🤔
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I think you probably have seen Griffin. He used to play a lot in the UK with the Coal Porters.
I've got a couple of their albums on CD, their first "Land of Hope and Crosby" and "Durango" (which was critically well received), but in truth I can't remember exactly what they sound like :grrr: . Griffin is another of the great guys that is in it purely for the music.
 
Wishbone said:
Nazareth, my fave Scottish band. Dan McCafferty, what a vocal range! Maggie Bell, lungs of a 40 a day glassblower! Both so underated. Luv 'em.
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In the interview clip of McCafferty you can see him sewing his eventual demise.
 
Jack K said:
In the interview clip of McCafferty you can see him sewing his eventual demise.
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Was he good with the needles then? Stitching his own end? 🥶

Nah fair go, I just hate to miss a chance to say what a fukkin brilliant single their cover of Joni Mitchell's This Flight Tonight is/was.

Tingles down the spine good.

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Wishbone said:
I was 14 in 1960 and I never had to go out of my way to discover music. Before 1960 there was no UK music scene. just bland covers of American stuff. Then from around 1962 the music found me. UK bands exploded and conquered the globe. They say if you remember the 60s then you weren't really there. Bollocks. I was there and I'm still here and I remember every bit of it (musically anyway). 1963 - 1990. So glad I had my time there. Each to their own of course, and I've got mine!

I think people's music interests lie mainly in the music from their formative years and then gets rounded with stuff from the past and stuff that follows their life path. Everyone has their own depth of interest. I follow this thread and have been pleasantly surprised by quite a lot of the contributions on here and made the aquaintance of many more bands than I expected.
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You were certainly there for the b in bang of the UK musical explosion and in a position to see it develop through it's various fazes.
I was born in 1960 and ideally would have like to have been born 10 years earlier to experience all the music first hand.
 
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HaarlemShuffler said:
Was he good with the needles then? Stitching his own end? 🥶

Nah fair go, I just hate to miss a chance to say what a fukkin brilliant single their cover of Joni Mitchell's This Flight Tonight is/was.

Tingles down the spine good.

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Nah it was the smoking during the interview with Bob Harris which continued as he sat watching Harvey playing Delilah. Sewing the seeds of his eventual demise.
On 29 August 2013, Nazareth announced McCafferty's retirement, at the age of only 63, from touring with the band due to health issues.
He stated that he had not suffered a stroke as had been reported in the press. He said that his chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that had "worsened in recent years" had made him leave the stage in Switzerland in late August 2013 after only three songs, indicating that, "You don’t know when it's going to come on, but suddenly you can't breathe".
Pissed in his own petrol tank otherwise he could have played for many more years.
 
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Jack K said:
Nah it was the smoking during the interview with Bob Harris which continued as he sat watching Harvey playing Delilah. Sewing the seeds of his eventual demise.
On 29 August 2013, Nazareth announced McCafferty's retirement, at the age of only 63, from touring with the band due to health issues.
He stated that he had not suffered a stroke as had been reported in the press. He said that his chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that had "worsened in recent years" had made him leave the stage in Switzerland in late August 2013 after only three songs, indicating that, "You don’t know when it's going to come on, but suddenly you can't breathe". Pissed in his own petrol tank otherwise he could have played for many more years.
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There's the rub, you meant 'sowing' dinnya? 😃
 
HaarlemShuffler said:
There's the rub, you meant 'sowing' dinnya? 😃
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:giggley: Sewing kinda works but my spelling is dying a death.
I find I can no longer remember how to spell certain words when i'm writing but strangely still recognise all misspellings when i'm reading.
 
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