What With All This Talk Of Birthdays.....

[Dog Star]

.... what might make you think that you need a bus pass?

Today is the birthday of one of my sons... and with an innocent smile said son asked... "Who were the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah band?". Now that made me think because that is a band from the time when etc.. so I explained about the Urban Spaceman and J Arthur Rank on Gong. Son went off to celebrate and I was left thinking about gigs when I was at Uni.

Wiki comes to the rescue with an entry posted circa 2009:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonzo_Dog_Doo-Dah_Band

where we learn that the Bonzos are still current! Like many of you I have a 12" vinyl copy of Gorilla. I have yet to get the bus pass.

Over to WTs to continue the thread.

regards, Graham

 

[Old Buffer]

Have got my bus pass, but we only have 1 bus per day out here in the sticks. I remember saving my paper round money and my butchers shop (general dogsbody) money and getting a Buddy Holly album before he was killed.
Alan

 

[Steph Dale]

I saw 'Three Bonzos and a Piano' earlier this year. One of the best evening's entertainment I can remember. And although I love the Bonzos, 'Sir Henry at Rawlinson End' really makes me chuckle; Vivian Stanshall was a bit of a hero of mine...

Of course his boat 'Thekla' still resides in the Floating Harbour here in Bristol although it's now a music venue and nightclub rather than a theatre.

Steph

 

[makhis]

I can remember when the Internet had an intermission and we had to make our own out of powdered egg and parachute silk let alone ponies down pits.
Makhis

 

[Eastsidepilot]

Grumpy old men section eh ...... I still recall seeing Jethro Tull in concert ( there's a term not heard much today) and I'm almost sure it was Robin Trower on stage for the warm up act, can't for the life of me remember when, up the smoke, Earls Court?
And does anyone remember Hawkwind, or birds fart as we called them.
Bonzo dog was great, was it Count Basie and Orchestra on paper and comb ? always made me laugh.
One high light for me though was about 25 years ago, in a boozer in Southend with a local blues band playing playing in the upstairs bar, they started playing Crossroads ( no not the soap, the blues number ha,ha) everyone recognised the guitar style, even though he was off stage hiding, then on he walked as he played....Clapton, and the whole pub erupted, absolutly brilliant.

Col.

 

[daifly]

Late 60s - 'Do Not Adjust Your Set'. I think that's where many of my generation first saw the Banzo Dig Doody Bin (who gave them that alternative soubriquet?) David Jason also first came to our notice as Captain Fantastic in the same show.

I'm feeling my age all of a sudden.

Cheers, Dave

 

[Dog Star]

I'm feeling my age all of a sudden.
Cheers, Dave

Which is where this topic started....

Hawkwind? Yes, a concert at Hammersmith Odeon, around 1980.

regards, Graham