The Bobby Gillespie Bullshit game

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The unrecorded first line-up of Primal Scream did include within its ranks stalwart Andy Newmark and Willie Weeks.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

... until Stephen Pastel said that they didn't quite have the chops to play in a Glasgow indie band

― Am I Re-elected Yet? (Dada), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

Though that line-up was augmented by some funky spider Moog jiving from Glen Michael.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

"It's interesting what Duglas Stewart of the BMX Bandits is doing with the ARP"

― Am I Re-elected Yet? (Dada), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

Bobby never got over coming second to Alex Harvey in the 1956 Scottish Elvis contest. Where Alex got to jam with Tommy Steele, Bobby had to make do with Lex McLean's Liberation Music Orchestra.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

but Damo was the bass player!

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Only because Roddy McMillan failed the audition (he thought Charlie Mingus was the brother of the guy who ran the newsagents).

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

Back then, he was!

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

You and your 'hardworking' band and gargantuan team of gargantuan roadies threw a lazy wobbler and had my band's performance pulled from the slot preceeding Primal Scream's at a Dublin festival last year because "You have too much gear and take up too much room on stage". We're a three piece!

-- greypejooze (greypejooz...), September 21st, 2006.

tell us more! miserable celebrities i love it.

― pisces (piscesx), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

I saw BG in the changing-room of my local gym a couple of months ago - so while I didn't actually witness him doing any physical exercise, he did look as though he'd been doing some beforehand.

Next, you'll be telling us he was taking vitamin supplements.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

"Except Ian Hunter nicked them off him three years previously, as described on page 77 of Diary Of A Rock 'N' Roll Star, and substituted the new platters from Poco and Foghat."

Primal Scream strike me as a band that almost certainly played the ol' "bedsheet mystery record grab" game while on tour...and I'm sure BG always won...

― hank (hank s), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

Aarrgh, I remember an interview from around the time of Xtrmntr where he was talking about the sample at the beginning of the album, but I can't think of where I might find it!

This single quote was densely packed with high point-scoring words along the lines of 'beautiful 13-year old punk rock girl', 'nihilistic', 'dennis hopper' and the like. If anyone can track that one down, I'll be very impressed!

― M Carty (mj_c), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

heh heh...who else talks like this?...Perry Farrell?...Anthony Kiedis?

― hank (hank s), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

Nas

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

"This single quote was densely packed with high point-scoring words along the lines of 'beautiful 13-year old punk rock girl', 'nihilistic', 'dennis hopper' and the like. If anyone can track that one down, I'll be very impressed!"

the movie in question is Out of The Blue, it does feature a beautiful 13-yo punk rock girl, is deeply nihilistic, and Dennis Hopper plays the punk girl's pervo-hippie father.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure Mr Gillespie managed to lard the sentence with even more Bobby Gillespie bullshitisms than the ones I can dimly remember, though...

― M Carty (mj_c), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

surely he mentioned the film's Neil Young sdtk as well.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

"To alot of people I think music's a commodity, not spiritual. it's something you put on the mantlepiece and it's there, like a set of golfclubs or an ironing board"

He needs to spend less time on the rock 'n' roll and more on tidying that mantelpiece

― Harthill Services (Neil Willett), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

This thread has been a gut-buster of roffles. Funniest thing I ever read about BG was from a Public NME letter accusing Bobby of spreading STD's. Or maybe I imagined it.

― Ice Cream Electric (Ice Cream Electric), Thursday, 21 September 2006 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah you're
Syphilitic
Analytic
Panaflex parabola

Alopecia areata
Areola non-grata
Medulla oblongata

Fascistic state
Suck my soul
Going down the drain
In a hole
Soul
Soul
Soul

Syphilitic parasitic parasites (x 25)

Yeh (x 15)

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Thursday, 21 September 2006 23:04 (nineteen years ago)

The lead singer of Primal Scream claims he and his bandmates once tried to persuade Kylie Minogue to take a "lethal drug cocktail".

Speaking in an interview with Q magazine, Bobby Gillespie says he offered the singer a combination of drugs including ecstasy, speed and cocaine, but she politely declined.

"We did try. We tried to give her an LDC - a lethal drug cocktail. Ecstasy, speed, cocaine, methadone, valium all crushed up. One of the guys offered it to her, but she said, 'Thanks but no thanks.' She was very ladylike," he states.

― mucho (mucho), Thursday, 21 September 2006 23:38 (nineteen years ago)

Who the hell let Bobby Gillespie write CAN liner notes?!

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Friday, 22 September 2006 00:02 (nineteen years ago)

Hildegard Schmidt probably :(

― Am I Re-elected Yet? (Dada), Friday, 22 September 2006 08:12 (nineteen years ago)

Pete Shelley was unavailable.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 22 September 2006 08:25 (nineteen years ago)

The other writer on those notes is David Stubbs, who does a much better job, or at least holds off on the implausible "me and my mate Holger" type anecdotes.

― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Friday, 22 September 2006 08:34 (nineteen years ago)

I like that Bobby's contribution to jamming with Can til dawn was vocals. It's a shame he didn't show those those boys some of the drumming skills he learnt off Elvin Jones.

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 22 September 2006 08:40 (nineteen years ago)

I think Can operates as a 'queue here to play with Can, fee £5, £10 with photo' booth.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 22 September 2006 08:44 (nineteen years ago)

I like that Bobby's contribution to jamming with Can til dawn was vocals. It's a shame he didn't show those those boys some of the drumming skills he learnt off Elvin Jones.
-- NickB (nic...), September 22nd, 2006.

the question is when will the offspring of this meeting of musical minds see the light of day?

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 22 September 2006 08:46 (nineteen years ago)

Pete Shelley was unavailable

He wrote sleevenotes to the original "Cannibalism" compilation, so he's been doing it for quarter of a century now!

― Am I Re-elected Yet? (Dada), Friday, 22 September 2006 08:49 (nineteen years ago)

(i knew that..)

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 22 September 2006 08:52 (nineteen years ago)

(i know you did, but for some of our youger viewers...)

― Am I Re-elected Yet? (Dada), Friday, 22 September 2006 08:54 (nineteen years ago)

haha i own 'cannibalism' but still didn't know that.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 22 September 2006 08:56 (nineteen years ago)

"the question is when will the offspring of this meeting of musical minds see the light of day?"

I think a song from this jam was released as a b-side of a primal scream single. Something like I'm 5 Years Ahead of My Time. I listened to it once and it left zero impression. Not even the one finger piano registered with me!

― M Carty (mj_c), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:14 (nineteen years ago)

I think the sleeve note is only on the LP version, but icouldbewrong.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:27 (nineteen years ago)

-- M Carty (mcarty...), September 22nd, 2006.

naw, i have that track and i can't say it sounds much like the liam-jaki-bobby session. maybe elements were taken... but il n'ya pas de one-finger piano.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, I think on the LP with the slightly unpleasant sleeve

― Am I Re-elected Yet? (Dada), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:30 (nineteen years ago)

I wouldn't know; I've only got the original LP version of Tago Mago, on United Artists, complete with inner sleeve advertising new releases by Bobby Goldsboro and Billie Jo Spears.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:30 (nineteen years ago)

oh aye, i bought that version from peckings back in '71.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

I loved that "people have been known to pay up to £5 for The original (independant) pressing of Monster Movie " note on that one.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:34 (nineteen years ago)

Bobby G: "Could ye see yer way tae giein' me a copy of the original pressing o' "Monster Movie", Holger?"
Holger C: "Nein Bobby, for I am hearing that an original pressing is selling for 5 of your English pounds!"
Bobby G: "Holl', less o' th' English, big man!"

― Am I Re-elected Yet? (Dada), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:39 (nineteen years ago)

Holger C: "But Roberto, you haf clearly stated in interviews that you ver standing outside the HMV Shops in the Union Street on the Friday mornink in your pram queuing up for to buy the original pressink in 1968!"

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:46 (nineteen years ago)

Bobby G: "Aye, but ah gave mah original copy away tae Miles Davis when ah met him oan a school trip tae Ardentinny in 1972"

― Am I Re-elected Yet? (Dada), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:50 (nineteen years ago)

Holger C: "You forget I haf looked in your record cabinet, Roberto. Vat is zis Cado Belle and Stone zer Crows?"

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:51 (nineteen years ago)

Bobby G: "Oh aye... aw naw... aw man... Jesus, don't tell emdy Holger till Cado Belle come back intae fashion, ah beg ye!"

― Am I Re-elected Yet? (Dada), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:55 (nineteen years ago)

Holger C: "And who is zis Marie Gordon Price?"

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 22 September 2006 10:00 (nineteen years ago)

Bobby G: "I'll never tell you, Jerry... you'll never get it out of me do you hear? Do your worst, you hunnish swine!"

― Am I Re-elected Yet? (Dada), Friday, 22 September 2006 10:05 (nineteen years ago)

(Eh, hold on here, who is Marie Gordon Price?)

― Am I Re-elected Yet? (Dada), Friday, 22 September 2006 10:08 (nineteen years ago)

(And is she anything to do with Anne Lorne Gillies?)

― Am I Re-elected Yet? (Dada), Friday, 22 September 2006 10:09 (nineteen years ago)

I think a song from this jam was released as a b-side of a primal scream single. Something like I'm 5 Years Ahead of My Time. -- M Carty (mcarty...), September 22nd, 2006.

"5 Years Ahead of My Time" is a cover of 60s garage band the Third Bardo. Why o why did Gillespie not change the lyrics to "I'm 25 years behind the times."

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Friday, 22 September 2006 10:20 (nineteen years ago)

Marie Gordon Price was (probably still is) sort of a Scots Helen Shapiro grown up and gone stale. She had a terrible teatime show on STV in the late seventies, "The Old Rugged Cross" and "Son Of A Preacher Man" and what have you (used to be on right before Thingummyjig).

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 22 September 2006 10:32 (nineteen years ago)

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