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Post by Weyland on Aug 31, 2011 19:08:42 GMT
I nominate Elias and His Zigzag Jiveflutes. I have great difficulty in typing their name without breaking into uncontrollable spluttering laughter. Here they are.
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Post by aubrey on Sept 1, 2011 9:39:02 GMT
Hamfatter is pretty unpleasant (though not as bad now I know they got it from a typeface. I think).
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Post by Weyland on Sept 1, 2011 11:01:13 GMT
Hamfatter is pretty unpleasant (though not as bad now I know they got it from a typeface. I think). I must've missed that Dragons' Den. Not bad, but not really my kind of music. Know anything else about the typeface, Aub? I can't find it, and I'm interested in fonts and stuff like that.
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Post by aubrey on Sept 1, 2011 13:37:46 GMT
It's really Hammer Fat, and this site calls it a font, though that may be because font is often used in place of typeface these days. They don't seem that bad, really, Hamfatter; though I don't like that kind of music much either - characterless rock. I don't like those group names that are someone and the someones - Doctor and the Medics, that kind of thing. Though I used to be in a group called Nicotine and the Non-filters, which was a good name (the singer/guitarist was called Nick, and he enjoyed his cigarettes. The rest of us were called things like Park Drive, Benson's (though he really was called Benson), Roth Man (I'm just making this up now)).
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Post by Weyland on Sept 1, 2011 15:46:29 GMT
I used to be in a group called Nicotine and the Non-filters, which was a good name (the singer/guitarist was called Nick, and he enjoyed his cigarettes. The rest of us were called things like Park Drive, Benson's (though he really was called Benson), Roth Man (I'm just making this up now)). No Number Six? Horrible little fags they were. Like smoking bits of old lino. Not unlike Embassy, only without the mouldy nuts after-taste. [My band was Undergrowth. Could be worse — my mate's was The Herbals.]
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Post by housesparrow on Sept 1, 2011 19:20:15 GMT
I quit smoking after buying some really cheap cigarettes in the late 70s/early 80s. I think they were called Extra, and I began coughing black phlegm and decided enough was enough.
Taking of naff brand names, who had the bright idea of renaming Marathon bars Snickers?
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Post by Weyland on Sept 1, 2011 19:58:45 GMT
I quit smoking after buying some really cheap cigarettes in the late 70s/early 80s. I think they were called Extra, and I began coughing black phlegm and decided enough was enough. Taking of naff brand names, who had the bright idea of renaming Marathon bars Snickers? Nuts. That's the only word for it. Perhaps it was something to do with the Revenge of the Cif.
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Post by alanseago on Sept 2, 2011 12:10:12 GMT
'The Stargazers'.
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Post by alanseago on Sept 2, 2011 12:29:35 GMT
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Post by Weyland on Sept 2, 2011 13:35:48 GMT
Which leads on neatly to Jefferson Starship. I've always liked We Built This City (on Rock and Roll), bubblegum music though it no doubt is. Raises the spirits, I find, and reminds me of when I worked in Den Haag, and the people I worked with (one of whom was a relative of Albert Pierrepoint, the last hangman). [The Stargazer was the first command of Jean-Luc Picard, the famous Frenchman (born in Labarre, July 2305).]
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Post by housesparrow on Sept 3, 2011 17:58:16 GMT
Oh, it does help to clean one's glasses. I read that as gornmless brand names.
No, there is no such thing as a gormless band name. The dafter the better.
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Post by aubrey on Sept 4, 2011 10:22:29 GMT
Jefferson Starship were once interviewed on The Old Grey Whistle Test - Bob Harris went out to California especially. As I remember it, they spent the whole interview telling him about some extension they'd had done on their house. We wrote a song about it - a great three chord riff song, that apart from the riff and the rhythm, and what I played, I remember nothing at all of. Good, though.
I hear that bloody Built this city song on Heart sometimes. Ghastly record, really, especially the way they swallow up the "Roll" to get the "Built" in.
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Post by Weyland on Sept 4, 2011 10:35:53 GMT
Jefferson Starship were once interviewed on The Old Grey Whistle Test - Bob Harris went out to California especially. As I remember it, they spent the whole interview telling him about some extension they'd had done on their house. We wrote a song about it - a great three chord riff, that I remember nothing at all of. Good, though. I hear that bloody Built this city song on Heart sometimes. Ghastly record, really, especially the way they swallow up the "Roll" to get the "Built" in. Well I like it. Probably because it puts me in mind of good times. Others, off the top of my head, all good times . . . Sultans of Swing — Hebburn-on-Tyne and Lake Lugano. Planet of New Orleans — Kielder Water. Call Off the Search — Lake Vrynwy. If God Was One of Us — The Kattegat. Can you see a pattern emerging?
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