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Post subject: Re: Manchester, England?
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 9:25 pm
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I believe Rhumba lives there.


+1, yes Rhumba is from Manchester.

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Post subject: Re: Manchester, England?
Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 4:30 am
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Solid Body Love Songs wrote:
GTG wrote:
I believe Rhumba lives there.


+1, yes Rhumba is from Manchester.


That doesn't sound likely, I've lived in and around Manchester most of my life and I've never met him.

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Post subject: Re: Manchester, England?
Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 12:09 pm
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Well then, you ought to know. I stand corrected. :P


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Post subject: Re: Manchester, England?
Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 1:58 pm
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There used to be some great clubs in Manchester , the Oasis (Saw the Ike and Tina Turner revue in there ) , the Jungfrau, where the likes of the Merseybeats/Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders /the big 3/ the Rockin Berries/The Lovin Spoonful/The Paramounts (Procol Harem just before they changed their name to Procol Harem,they made the record of "A whiter shade of plale and played it live, then 2 weeks later were on TV as Procol Harem). Hermans Hermits and Johnny Kidd and the pirates were also regulars

My friend used to get 4 tickets every week for a radio show that was recorded in an old picture house (Movie theatre) that had been bought by the BBC , who taped the show Monday night at 8 pm, to go out on the radio on that following Thursday on what became the top music station "Radio 1"
I saw .....John Walker/The Yardbirds ,twice,( once with both Jeff Beck AND Jimmy Page in the line up)/The Move/Lulu/ Cat Stevens/The Bee Gees/Amen Corner (with Andy Fairweather Lowe), all for free
My 2 regrets were...
A friend of mine's sister worked as an usherette at a cinema where the Beatles were due to perform and I could have had 2 free front row tickets , but the girl I was going out with didn't like them so I ever bothered AND ...One week we were told a certain Mr James Hendrix was to appear at "Pop North" (the Radio show)
I had been really ill with flu but dragged myself out of bed but when my Mum saw me she marched me straight back there , so when my friend called for me, I asked him to tell me what he was like live
He came back to my house and said the producer came onstage and announced Jimi was fogbound and had been diverted to the Birmingham studios to link live to Manchester for them to record , so It must have been meant to be that I never would see him live

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Post subject: Re: Manchester, England?
Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 2:41 pm
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Mostly my interest in the area's music scene stems from the late 70's-early 80's punk/post-punk era (Joy Division, Magazine, Factory Records, etc.) and the whole "Madchester" thing ("Baggy Music", I believe it was referred to) the 90's, but I'm also into 60's music (always looking for what ever music I can find) and I found this site, in case anyone hasn't visited it: http://www.manchesterbeat.com/index.php It covers the scene from that time period.

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Post subject: Re: Manchester, England?
Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 3:51 pm
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It's just over 90 miles west of me. I've only been there about 6 times, but I love it as a city, it's light years better than London where I lived for a good few years due to work commitments. I loved Joy Division and some of the Factory records stuff, although my favourite Manchester band is The Stone Roses. It's one of those places I really want to investigate thoroughly at some point, but have to find the time first to do it.

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Post subject: Re: Manchester, England?
Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 7:10 pm
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Steviecaster wrote:
It's just over 90 miles west of me.


Just testing if the word filters here allow me to say "Scunthorpe"

EDIT: hang on, that's east, do you live in the sea?

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Post subject: Re: Manchester, England?
Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 8:55 pm
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GilgaFrank wrote:
Steviecaster wrote:
It's just over 90 miles west of me.


Just testing if the word filters here allow me to say "Scunthorpe"

EDIT: hang on, that's east, do you live in the sea?

I guessed at Hull, but never having been up North much, and it's a generation since I lived in the UK, I consulted a map. Marvelous things. Manchester is almost exactly "just over 90 miles west" of Grimsby.


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Post subject: Re: Manchester, England?
Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 9:08 pm
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Now I read that post again, Grimsby makes more sense than living in the sea.

Still not sure why this thread's here though, I hope we find out today.

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Post subject: Re: Manchester, England?
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 2:50 am
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We (my bandmates and myself) , used to always go up to Manchester on Saturday afternoons and walk round the music shops , seeing what was new in them ( Actually saw Hank Marvin getting in a car once)
One week a really nice Telecaster was in Barretts , a bigish store , I got it down from the wall and played it, it was really comfortable, blonde with white scratchplate .
One of the shop assistants came and asked if he could have it back, as it wasn't for sale, it had come in with a damaged tuning peg and belonged to the rhythm guitarist with "BillyJ Kramer and the Dakotas" and was used on his hit "Little Children"

Just as I gave it back, all hell broke loose , shop assistants were dashing round like headless chickens . Malc, the assistant I knew there, told me an organised gang had stolen half a dozen Strats
What they'd done, is take them off the wall, ask to try them out in the amp sales room one floor up, and then opened the window (which had bars on) tied string around the headstocks, unscrewed the whammy bars and pocketed them and fed the Strats through the bars and lowered them to a waiting van in the back alleyway below. They'd picked Saturday afternoon as it would be the busiest time in the shop (it was always crowded then)
They were caught a few weeks later at another shop, trying to just walk out the door with a Vox amp

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Post subject: Re: Manchester, England?
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 2:16 pm
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GilgaFrank wrote:
Now I read that post again, Grimsby makes more sense than living in the sea.



LOL! Well not far out, actually between Scunthorpe and Grimsby - place called Brigg.

EDIT: It's just over 75 miles straight, I just checked.

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Still not sure why this thread's here though, I hope we find out today.


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Post subject: Re: Manchester, England?
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 3:54 pm
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Any Forum members live in the Manchester area?

No.

But my wife is from Manchester and we visit her family up there quite regularly - can I qualify for the prize by proxy?

Standing by...

Cheers - C

PS. To be pedantic, Rhumba lives in Rochdale, but I'm sure he's prepared to call that Manchester if the prize draw is big enough.

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Post subject: Re: Manchester, England?
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 9:17 am
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Bumping this until we find out what the thread's actually about

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Post subject: Re: Manchester, England?
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 9:29 am
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GilgaFrank wrote:
Bumping this until we find out what the thread's actually about

Ah, you must have missed the prize-giving on the other thread.

As it happens, my wife's name was first out of the "Genuine Mancunians" hat. Chet has awarded her a left-handed Brian Setzer signature Gretsch, with which she's delighted and fairly surprised.

Cheers - C

PS: my spell-checker doesn't recognise Mancunian and offers Manchurian instead. I believe that explains a lot, though I'm not quite sure what.

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Post subject: Re: Manchester, England?
Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2014 10:01 pm
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Where is Rhumba? And Snowy.? The Stone Roses took the stage like it was theirs, 2 great albums. I do like some Oasis songs and think that the Brothers are professional musicians.

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