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Garrett's lick catalogue

Knopfler won't admit it, apparently, but his biggest influence is Amos Garrett. Sultans of Swing is like going to a condensed Garrett concert.

 

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Yeah, I can hear that. Midnight at the Oasis. Sultans of Swing. Oasis. Sultans. There is a train of thought there both in the playing and song titles.

Brilliant!

The thought never crossed my mind....lol

I wonder if Knopfler let it slip?

 

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and they went on to form Buffalo Springfield (the name on a truck or some construction equipment if memory serves.

Almost....Actually BS was a brand of steamroller used for asphalt paving.

 

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Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson is:
1) a big history buff and a world class fencer (explains some of those lyrics), and
2) a first officer on a English charter airline (Aestrus, I think) that flies into Newfoundland all the time.

Nice to have something to fall back on if this music thing doesn't work out.

I believe he is also a train buff, and collects locomotives....some of which he operates on some UK branch line.

 

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Anyone remember "The McCoys"? "Hang On Sloopy"? Ted Nugent was in that band.

Sonny Bono was a successful record producer before Cher ruined his career.:tongue:

Son, Bono successfully produced records before sharing his politics ruined HIS career....:zzz:

 

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Are you thinking of Amboy Dukes?

The Amboy Dukes indeed.

"Journey to the Center of your Mind" was the hit song;

akin to Paul Revere & the Raiders "Kicks"

Two anti-drug songs from the summer of love, 1967...

Of course, Ted is now a big NRA booster.

 

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I'm pretty sure we can all agree that a tree ultimately ruined Sonny Bono's career.

Yes!!! You're right. It was Rick Derringer I was thinking of. I swear Ted Nugent came from some odd band as well, just got the two confused.

As for Sonny Bono: Cher or tree, there's not much difference.

Of course, Bono would save the tree.

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

 

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Sonny actually wrote a song called "laugh at me " that Mott the Hoople (ian hunter ) covered on one of the early discs. I thought it was a great song , but that was in the early 70's and there was much altering going on at the time ? I still think it would be a great song , I'll have to dig out the big black disc and give it a spin someday .
John

Hence my continual digs at Bono, i.e. an Irish guy with one name...., He takes himself far too seriously, in public. Pompous twit that he is. Sonny Bono, on the other hand, did not take himself seriously, but had the gumption to reinvent himself several times throughout his life, as need dictated. I'm sure he's mocking the tree from out spiritland way. Oddly, the irony is that Cher is an American diva.....with one name.

Funny how things go. I think Sonny Bono was real cool in his own way, and had the last laugh, even as he did his arboreal face-plant.

 

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...many people hate bono for drawing attention to certain world problems. evidently, that's bad thing.

personally, i think we need more like him.

-dh

There is nothing bad about drawing attention to problems. The irritating thing about Bono is his pretense at being some kind of expert. He is an expert, in his chosen field, music. But as a commentator on complex issues, he is a buffoon, I'm afraid to say. He doesn't present solutions to problems beyond sweeping rhetoric like "endorsing" Canada as a country, for example. Really, that's like Joe Blow endorsing a country; essentially lacking substance.

But this is just my opinion, and I'm a relative nobody who doesn't wear pink glasses nor enter into areas of expertise beyond my capability. I personally think the world is going to hell in a handbasket, but beyond that, I have no solution to the problem. I'll just sit back and fasten my seatbelt and watch the pundits dodge bullets aimed at their feet.

I better shut up, now, I'm dragging it a bit off-topic.