Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

zagubov

Happy silver anniversary of your 21st birthday, Sue. :beer:

Gen, stick on some Moody Blues or Curved Air.
Or maybe get them into classical.

My DD has much the same taste as me. Can't abide much modern stuff. I try to like it, but it's just not very good.

Generali

zagubov wrote: »

Happy silver anniversary of your 21st birthday, Sue. :beer:

Gen, stick on some Moody Blues or Curved Air.
Or maybe get them into classical.

My DD has much the same taste as me. Can't abide much modern stuff. I try to like it, but it's just not very good.

The Generalissimos love a nice bit of Mozza or Ludwig van. The Girl even stretches as far as John Coltrane although The Boy won't have a bar of jazz except maybe Satchmo.

DQWD:
I don't really know the Moody Blues well although the bloke that wrote Nights in White Satin ran a pub in a village up the road from where I was brought up in a very pleasant Surrey village apparently bought with the proceeds of a legal settlement when he asserted his rights to the song (no idea if that's true or not). My parents had about 6 albums when I was a kid and NiWS was on one of them, my sister and I did a puppet play once with NiWS as the intro music. Cripes that takes me back, I'd forgotten most of this.

As for Curved Air, I've never been a huge Prog Rock fan, being born in 1971 I missed the heyday of it really and just about caught the worst excesses of it around the mid-seventies which I'm afraid rather put me off. I like bits and bobs, that one that Danny Baker plays to start his show off is pretty good for example but generally it leaves me cold.

The last two songs we ended up playing were The Effervescing Elephant which is probably Syd Barrett's best known solo song, at least it is by The Girl because I used to sing it to her on the way to preschool, followed by Shine on Crazy Diamond, one of Pink Floyd's many tributes to a living Syd Barrett .

It's terrible what mental illness did to that man, quite possibly brought on, or at least exacerbated, by taking acid.

ivyleaf

Gen After what you said about Costa's beard, I had to have a look. It is indeed truly amazing

Does anyone know how Lydia's getting on?

hjd

Generali wrote: »

The Generalissimos love a nice bit of Mozza or Ludwig van. The Girl even stretches as far as John Coltrane although The Boy won't have a bar of jazz except maybe Satchmo.

Try them on Shostakovich's Jazz Suites?

Generali

ivyleaf wrote: »

Gen After what you said about Costa's beard, I had to have a look. It is indeed truly amazing

Does anyone know how Lydia's getting on?

If a man can grow a beard like that then I would definitely take his advice on tomatoes. He's brilliant. I never thought I'd find a TV gardener I liked more than Percy Thrower. Go Costa!!!!

Lydia does seem to disappear now and again. No idea why.

michaels

Talking of people who disappear every now and then, I can never remember, has this been a rather disappointing football season for Lemon?

zagubov

Gen, I would suggest there is much to be appreciated in Oblivion's SOOTHING music thread over in the Arms. Can't recommend it highly enough.

I keep hoping that Oblivion or Viva would make a Spotify thread from it.

vivatifosi

Nikkster wrote: »

Instead, tonight I'm going to watch Purple Rain. Which even has a song about me! Well, it has my name in the title and there aren't many songs you can say that about.
Was lucky enough to see Prince when he had his residency at the O2 almost 10 years ago. Absolutely amazing.

So did I. I wonder if we went to the same one. He came on stage hidden in a box at the one we went to.

Dreamscometrue

vivatifosi wrote: »

So did I. I wonder if we went to the same one. He came on stage hidden in a box at the one we went to.

Yes, he was hidden in a box. I can't believe he's gone. He was my favourite artist of all time. Noone compares to Prince. RIP.

michaels

Back to the pension contribution discussion, what would NP think about the trade off between working fewer days a week or retiring earlier - for example work 5 days a week and retire at 54 or work 4 days a week and retire at 57?