Love those names, Lawrence.
And there I forgot Talking Heads, yes, & one of the best films of a performance ever…
Doug
On Nov 21, 2014, at 8:42 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> My current enthusiasm for a group name is Folding, Flexing & Stitch
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> which is the methodology my colleague Guy Begbie proposes we adopt to make
> a particular imagined bookwork. I have better names to aspire to, but
> there's something mid century and BBC about it
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> That was Elsie and Doris Waters; and now Folding, Flexing & Stitch
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> Anyone who doesnt understand what I just said should count themselves lucky
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> For years I wanted to be in The Cooperative Strawberries, which name I read
> one summer on a sign outside my local coop
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> Last year with an almost audible sigh Jeff Cloke said he was willing to
> perform under that name for 1 night; and so we did at Arch1 in London, an
> electro acoustic sound poem about the trucks going to Auschwitz; worked
> well with our group name
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> I thought highly of Tim's post yesterday.
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> There was more of what I what I want to be going on in The Doors than in
> The Stones. I don't know what it is.
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> And then there were was were Talking Heads
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> They interest me
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> But I don't hear much pop rock stuff nowadays. Not by design.
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> Is it tea time, nurse?
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> On 21 November 2014 15:20, Tim Allen <
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>> Bill, good name for a new band - The Store Drones.
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>> On 21 Nov 2014, at 02:13, Bill Wootton wrote:
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>>> Tim, I am intrigued by your comments on the difference between The
>> Stones and The Doors. (Gee, I nearly typed The Stores and The Drones then.)
>> It is true that Morrison approached performance as drama whereas Jagger is
>> more a posturer (a damned fine one mind you).
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Douglas Barbour
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