And the Beat Goes on

Far too rich a Facebook conversation to leave out. Mr Neil Pakey. --- Our musical influences is an interesting one, you don't like everything you hear but i am indebted to the following, who shared musical taste with me....quite diverse but i guess it makes the dna what it is.... Brian Paterson - Crime of the Century, Physical Graffitti....i have been hooked on Zeppelin ever since and re Supertramp still get caught singing 'i can see you in the morning when you go to skool....' Dougie James - Joy Division....we had George Murray at Marr inviting us to bring in our musical influences and reasons for them, i was lining up Vangelis, in came Douglas with JD....blew me away and Vangelis went back into the box for a few years, guess we were older about 16/17 when that happened...dance dance dance to the radio..... Alan Fergusson (big ferg) and Mike Tucker - Genesis, Lamb Lies Down on Broadway....cool was Peter Gabriel even if he did dress up as a daffodil, can still sing all of The Carpet Crawlers after 4 pints...if only someone would listen Chris Shoring - try tapping your foot to this he challenged me when he first played the Next album by The Sensational Alex Harvey Band. My mum wasn't too impressed by the lyrics but what a great record that has everything from rock and roll, blues, and the rudest ballad about poor soldiers in wartime having to queue Ranald Anderson - Dirty Deeds done Dirt Cheep, AC/DC - Ranald ended up in the clink i remember but not before he taught me a lot about life and ac/dc. Took my 2 boys to see them last time they played Manchester, they still talk about it.....if you're having trouble with your high skool head......here's what you gotta do.... Bob Dylan - Hard Rain - Boys Common room anthem music at Marr courtesy of Stewart Allen who wouldn't let anything else get played...music to watch Miss Hill to Gong -Angel's Egg - Fraser Miller....another Marr choice but Fraser brought some odd music in and i loved it. Other oddety at the time was Nektar but i sold my albums at a car boot sale jimmy Tucker - anything by the Corries...well it helps round off the ecletic taste and Mike's dad always had his Corries collection to hand David Bowie -Aladdin Sane and Diamond Dogs, this was my sister Alison who had these...until she went out anyway....still love that guitar riff to Rebel Rebel Robert Longmuir -Wuthering heights, Kate Bush...she became popular very quickly but it was Longy who first saw the talent, awesome! So i still have my vinyl active on the turntable for all the above and their follow up works too....and thanks to those mentioned above!