Have yet to see the film which I have heard glowing things about. Did see T Heads in Melbourne circa 1978. Recall that D Byrne called for all the house lights to be on throughout the entire performance. Made for quite a different 'concert ' experience. Still play More Songs about Buildings and Food' most. 'I wouldn't live there if you paid me to'!
Bill
> On 22 Nov 2014, at 3:26 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Love those names, Lawrence.
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> And there I forgot Talking Heads, yes, & one of the best films of a performance ever…
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> Doug
>> On Nov 21, 2014, at 8:42 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> 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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>> 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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> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
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> that we are only
> as we find out we are
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> Charles Olson
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