The Bobby Gillespie Bullshit game

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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)

I've expunged her from my memory (I wish I could say the same for "Thingummyjig")

― Am I Re-elected Yet? (Dada), Friday, 22 September 2006 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

Time for a Company Policy revival!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 22 September 2006 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

Bobby G: "Hey Holger, ye ever heard o' this band Company Policy? Fuckin' brilliant they were, by the way"
Holger C: "Ja, zey vere appearink on ze "Thingummyjig" show mit der verdammte Jack McLauglin, amirecht?"

― Am I Re-elected Yet? (Dada), Friday, 22 September 2006 10:50 (nineteen years ago)

Damo Suzuki: "Hullooooo ma ladies and lassies an' welcome tae Thingummyjig!!"
Holger C: "You are FIRED!"
Damo Suzuki: "Fair dos, I've got a gig wi' the Chris McClure Set..."

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 22 September 2006 10:53 (nineteen years ago)

Bobby G: "Can ah come too?"
Liam G: "Do they need a fookin' one-fingered piano player?"

― Am I Re-elected Yet? (Dada), Friday, 22 September 2006 10:57 (nineteen years ago)

Christian: "Eh, no, I chucked wee Bobby oot o' my Alice in Wonderland club wan night, we get nice people in here..."

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 22 September 2006 11:04 (nineteen years ago)

Christian: "... aye and don't think ah don't see you Wullie Reid, tryin' tae sneak in the back wi' that glaikit brother o' yours..."

― Am I Re-elected Yet? (Dada), Friday, 22 September 2006 11:06 (nineteen years ago)

Bouncers: "Biff! Bang! Pow!"
A. McGee: "Hey ah've just had a great idea..."

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 22 September 2006 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

Bobby G: "Who did ye steal it aff?"

― Am I Re-elected Yet? (Dada), Friday, 22 September 2006 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

A. McGee: "Right youse! Oot the back!"
Bouncers: "Thwack! Waallop!"
JAMC: "Yarooh! Leggo you rotters!"
Christian: "And now ladies and gentlemen, please welcome our star of the evening - Former H20 Singer Ian Donaldson!"
Ian: "Aaaaaahh dreeeeeeem to sleeeeeeep..."
*ripple of applause*

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 22 September 2006 11:12 (nineteen years ago)

Holger C: "Oh gut, zis ist mein fafourite song of der H Zwei Zero"

― Am I Re-elected Yet? (Dada), Friday, 22 September 2006 11:14 (nineteen years ago)

The Ghost Of Michael Karoli: "I was always more of ein Deacon Blues groupie. Zat song zey wrote about Das Boot Called Dignity."

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 22 September 2006 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

Holger C: "Ja, und das Hue und Cry mit der sehr talented Kane bruders, 'Gonna vizdraw mein Labour von Love/ Gonna fight fur das right/ To get inzide your heart, JA!'. Heppy days!"

― Am I Re-elected Yet? (Dada), Friday, 22 September 2006 11:22 (nineteen years ago)

These German impressions are uncannily accurate! :-)

― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Friday, 22 September 2006 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

Pat Kane: "Do you realise the Baudrillardian subversion of that bomb I delivered to the foundations of England in the guise of a bland pop-soul song?"
Tom Bosley: "Marian, I'm home!"
Holger C: "Oh scheisse, not THOSE Heppy Days!"

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 22 September 2006 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

Jaki Liebezeit: "Sonntag, Montag, Heppy Days..."
Holger C: "You too are FIRED!"

― Am I Re-elected Yet? (Dada), Friday, 22 September 2006 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

Malcolm Mooney: "Heyyyyyyyyyyy"

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 22 September 2006 11:36 (nineteen years ago)

Christian: "Ah've jist seen a good pal o' mine come intae the club... Malcolm! Malcolm! Get up here and gie us a song..."
Malcolm Mooney: "'... a gigantic octopus leaped outta the pool and snatched Mother Upduff up...'"

― Am I Re-elected Yet? (Dada), Friday, 22 September 2006 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

Damo Suzuki: "Hey Mooney, you suck! Get off that stage..."
Christian: "Bouncers! Put that Jim Reid doon and chuck oot that Jap guy!"

― Am I Re-elected Yet? (Dada), Friday, 22 September 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

This thread is insane.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 22 September 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

Christian: "... and when ye're finished with that Japanese maddie can ye take care o' this Sick Moothy joker?"

― Am I Re-elected Yet? (Dada), Friday, 22 September 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

it hasn't been born, hasn't been born, hasn't been born, ..

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 22 September 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

Malcolm: Upstairs, downstairs. Upstairs, downstairs. Upstairs, downstairs. Upstairs, downstairs. Upstairs, downstairs. Upstairs, downstairs. Upstairs, downstairs. Upstairs, downstairs. Upstairs, downstairs. Upstairs, downstairs. Upstairs, downstairs. Upstairs, downstairs.

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Friday, 22 September 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

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