You Can Go Your Own Way.
Comments(1)My Twitter friend @abigvictory made me revive my “blog”.
I’ve to tell you all about my first concert experience.
Summer ‘78 Loch Lomond, north of Glasgow. Me. 16. Fleetwood Mac. Rumors.
“Go Your Own Way” was rockin’ the charts and I still remember vividly things I was doing, where I was going that summer when I hear the song. My best friend bought Rumors first and we’d listen to it at his parents house and look at the exotic pictures, inside the album cover, guys wearing shorts in a sunny place.
Fleetwood Mac came to Glasgow. The Glasgow Apollo. My weekend home for the next five years.
Status Quo recorded “Live!” at the Apollo in ‘76. Almost every act who played the Apollo would say we were the hardest audience to crack. Almost every act would say it was the best place in the World to play.
Fleetwood Mac, Rumors tour, Glasgow Apollo, summer ‘78. My first concert.
I’ve not listened to Fleetwood Mac for years but everyone knows Rumors was one of those seminal albums and I don’t mean the related to semen meaning of that word. It defined West Coast Rock AOR MOR whatevah. It stands today as the pace setter for many acts that followed.
Things I remember about the concert.
1. Stevie Nicks falling over at the side of the stage.
2. Lindsay Buckingham shaking his curly locks during guitar breaks.
3. John McVie’s big ass acoustic bass.
More than anything else I remember this being my first visit to the Glasgow Apollo. In the next few years I would see the “best light shows” hear the “loudest sound systems” and sneak in fire exits to see Queen, Tangerine Dream and Thin Lizzy. Saturday afternoons we’d get the train to Glasgow to buy albums in Listen and buy tickets at the Apollo. We’d go into the auditorium, onto the stage, air guitar and wave to the “crowd”.
I’ve got so many memories of the Apollo I might share here but for now, this was my first.
DVD Review – Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
Leave a CommentRated R for chubby man nudity.
A film of contrasts, while many may find it difficult to see past the unnecessary nudity of Philip Seymour Hoffman others will see the necessary nudity of Marisa Tomei.
The viewer is continually challenged to look or look away.
While this film is no Themroc or Free Willy, it does doff it’s cap often to Chico and the Man.
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App Store Uproar as Perversiontracker Returns
Leave a CommentChaos in Cupertino (yet again) as only weeks after opening, Apple Inc. (AAPL), has begun removing applications from the iPhone/iTouch AppStore.
It is believed that shortly after this post on industry watchdog perversiontracker.com a special serious crisis meeting was held in a bunker deep below 1 Infinite Loop. Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing, Phil Schiller, finger poised over a big red button marked “Delete all Crappy Apps” was held back by CEO Steve Jobs shouting “STAND DOWN SOLDIER! Cowbell must stay.” A long time Blue Oyster Cult fan, Jobs made the sign of fingers on a fret board and mouth twanged “Buck’s Boogie”.
Meanwhile bemused users, who have long sought guidance from the oracle iPhone, wander lost and bemused. The Peeled Apple spoke to one such lost soul outside the Hoyts Cinemaplex in George St.
“I don’t know what to see! I don’t know what to see! I can’t … wait…. I’ll ask Box Office.”
“Box Office is gone.”
“Gone? But… What should I see?”
“How about Mamma Mia? You liked that last week didn’t you?”
“I liked Box Office!”
Loopy Linus Lists Leopard Letdowns
As 2008 winds down, it’s time to look back on the year that was… and what a year. What can top those wacky ferrets squirrelling up Dubya’s trouser leg in August? Boy oh boy did they latch on… Yewooch!
But before that, let’s remember the week in January when that Scandinavian scallywag, Linus Torvalds, visited Australia.
Can it be coincidence that the very week CARS closed it’s doors and it’s mysterious Editor in Chief, John Moltz, flies off through folding palm trees in the experimental Thunderbird 6, can it be coincidence, that this very week the “Hoods” of the I.T. industry feel safe to come out of their secret lairs and sully the name of all that is good in this world of 3 hour service pack updates (HastaLaVista SP1) or operating systems that only start on Tuesdays (Uber Stumpf Untu) and only if the operator is wearing polka dot socks?
Can it?….No I don’t think so!
A very Merry Christmas to you all!
True Purpose Of Cover Flow Revealed
With the release of the iPhone earlier this year, followed closely by the iPod Touch, lovers of technology gasped at the ease of use and beauty Apple had designed into it’s music player user interface.
This week, following the release of OS X 10.5 (a.k.a. Leopard, The Mighty Beast Cat Slayer Your Majesty) it’s true colours, or spots, can be revealed. Yes friends, the true purpose of Cover Flow, all along, has been to make Microsoft look stupid.
iPhone Coming To Australia When iPhone Says It’s Coming To Australia.
Australians may have to wait a little longer for the arrival of Apple’s iPhone as it was revealed today that the iPhone, so drunk on it’s own popularity, said it was fed up with media events and launches and was going to stay in it’s room and “wasn’t coming out not never”.
Peeled Apple rounder Lars Lundrupp reports from the landing outside the iPhone’s bedroom where Apple chief Steve Jobs knocked tenderly on the door and was heard to say “Come on sweetie, Daddy wants you to come out now. I’ll push you on the swing!” However the iPhone ignored the pleas and turned up it’s music.
While the media throng swayed to “Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now”, an exasperated Jobs announced that it didn’t matter if cutesie never came out of his room anyway as negotiations with Australia’s biggest carrier Telstra had stalled.
Given the carriers initial response to the iPhone that Apple should “stick to it’s knitting” and the fact that Apple marketing executive Philip Schiller was earlier this week physically ejected from Telstra’s Melbourne headquarters, it seems unlikely that Telstra will champion the iPhone down under.
Later the same day, Schiller was seen waiting for the bus to Warrnambool where CDMA startup “Barry Smart SmartPhones” is headquartered
A Life Fulfilled.
There can be no more satisfying feeling than to sit down at the end of a day realising that all you wished for in life has been achieved.
Like Bilbo passing the mithril shirt to Frodo, the postman arrived with parcel in hand. “G’day mate!” says the postman “Need you to sign here.” Weak with excitement I barely managed to hold the pen handed me.
Carefully opening the parcel, an ethereal glow emanated as the brown paper was torn. Inside, an ordinary looking shirt, somehow I knew this was no ordinary shirt but a magical shirt. The ancient runes inscribed upon it’s front depicting Gods of a long forgotten civilisation.
But what’s this falling upon the floor? An oblong message from the past bearing a spell of such power that would smite and lay asunder all who dare bespeak unkindly upon it’s owner? Or a mucilaginous banner crudely announcing the presence of it’s crass producer?
I donned the shirt and stuck the banner upon my forehead. Sadly, neither did I become invincible nor did I disappear. But still, a deep feeling of satisfaction filled me.
Twas then I got in the car and went to pick the kids up from school.
England pull pants down in Sydney.
Underpants were on show today at the Sydney Cricket Ground as England resumed their second innings, of the 5th and final test of the Ashes series, at 5 for 114. Kevin Pietersen , wearing a pair of reindeer patterned Calvin Klein boxers, was first out caught by wicket keeper Gilchrist of the bowling of McGrath.
Brave nightwatchman Monty Panesar was next to go for a duck. Monty walked off the field and lifted his shirt to reveal nothing bar a Yves St Laurent box, sportily worn to the side revealing a handsome testicle.
In the true tradition of a side smothered by defeat, the remainder of the England tail came out to bat as naked as the day they were born and quickly succumbed to the allure of the Australian ball work.
Needing only 46 to win the test and a 5-0 whitewash, Matthew Hayden and the retiring Justin Langer easily dispatched the feeble bowling of Harmison, Anderson and Mahmood to snatch a victory from the jaws of victory on a glorious day for underpant watchers around the World.
Sweet New WordPressy Goodness.
Welcome to the All New Peeled Apple. That’s right it’s All and it’s New… and it’s The Peeled Apple.
New, New, All New.
Yes babies, can’t wait.
All New posts coming in March 2007.
Pony Assault Begins: First Pictures.
Three days after they first appeared in Israel, the army of ponies made their intentions known as fierce fighting erupted on the streets of Tel Aviv.
IDF troops and artillery have proved ineffective against the ponies who appear to have a ray type weapon which projects from their eyes. Strangely though, no Israeli casualties have been reported despite many engagements with the ponies. It appears the ray, or "eye flame" as some are calling it, only destroys the Israeli’s weapons.
A large furry creature appears to be controlling the ponies, although this is not Teddy Ruxpin as was reported earlier.
In a sad indictment of the Israeli determination, many soldiers are risking severe burns by attempting to carry on fighting with their red hot glowing weapons.
