Blokman

This is nice. Somehow made me think of this. Gert Vlok Nel with a poem by C Louis Leipoldt.

After the Beatles broke up they all did their own thing ,often with the help of former bandmates. You can hear George Harrison's hand in this song.

In the mid 70's there was a passage running under the road from the Carlton to the Kine Centre. It was filled with pinball machines and the like. Also lots of take away shops. It was called The Connection. Used to be the hangout place on Saturday afternoons before movies or ice skating.

For Stretch. Yesterday was the birthday of the late John Peel. DJ with BBC Radio in the last century, who put many, many bands on the map. A bit of a maverick (please excuse the Americanism),the "Peel Sessions" as well as his lists of songs are part of his legacy. The frontman is a bloke called Feargal Sharkey who had a hit with a song called "A Good Heart" a few years later.

During high school I used to ice skate at the Carlton Sky Rink. Sunday afternoon session and then we used to go to the Black Steer in the Carlton Centre .There we had a burger while killing time until the evening session started. Hawaii Five-O series was shown on a screen. No TV those days.

Everybody knows the boat is leaking Everybody knows the captain lied. Cohen is not everybody's cup of tea , but he was a master with the lyrics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEQldSi-heE

In the US a life sentence seems to be just that. Mark Chapman has been denied parole for the 10th time. Been sitting for 37 years.

If you went to a wedding in the previous century you danced to a Carole King song . And you did that silly train thing through the hall. Sometimes going out the door and coming in somewhere else. And the old ladies who had a few too many would beckon you from your seat, until you joined in.

And Carole King is going bananas. "It's my song. This legend is doing my song."

Lekker song. I only learnt late in life that this was the same guy.

Duane , have you checked out The Backyard Sessions ? Changed my opinion of Miley Cirus somewhat.

You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today. And then one day you find, ten years have got behind you. No one told you when to run , you missed the starting gun. My number 1 album. Just listen to Nick Mason's drumming in the intro part.

'n Ginekoloog is naby aftrede. Hy hou daarvan om aan ou karre te werk. Hy skryf homself in vir aandklasse om sy kennis te verbreed. So is dit tyd vir die praktiese eksamen. Eksaminator: "Dokter u het baie goed gevaar. U het 150 persent gekry. 50 Persent omdat u die enjin reg uitmekaargehaal het. 50 Persent omdat u die enjin weer reg aanmekaargesit het. En 'n ekstra 50 persent omdat u die hele job deur die uitlaatpyp gedoen het.

Originally done by David Bowie.

Koos kom terug SA toe na die oorlog . Daar is 'n medaljeparade , maar die generaal is horingoud. Ou Van stap vorentoe. "Baie geluk kaptein van der Merwe.Jy het uhm, ai tog . Jy het uhm, 'n vliegtuig in 'n geveg afgeskiet." Koos vervies hom bloedig. "Generaal met respek, ek het AGT Focke Wulfs afgeskiet." Genl: "Wel, jy kry net EEN f**ken medalje."

Oke with him is Iggy Pop. Some say he's the godfather of punk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0nlygb1Qfw There are some pics posted (idea for a new thread) of the celeb chef that commited suicide. With him in some of the photos is this guy.

Heard this song on RSG about a year ago. Has a dark sinister quality. Loved it the moment I heard it. And it just disappeared .

The "shadow" here being Mark Knopfler.

I went to school in Braamies. With Hillbrow next door. In the late sixties and seventies it was a cosmopolitan place. We were young and had very little money we walked those streets for hours.Look and Listen was a favourite. Being a boys school we got invited to an Afrikaans evening at Parktown Girls High. Cultural thing, poetry and so on. They expected some some Brylcreemed guys with safari suits and combs in their socks. Het hulle 'n surprise gekry.

Jim Morrison's ode to Los Angeles. Piece in the middle Mr. Mojo Risin, bit of vanity . It spells Jim Morrison.

Googled a bit . Seems that the Doors had three songs in the Springbok top 20. Light my Fire '67. Hello I Love You '68. Touch Me '69. My favourite Doors songs are Riders on a Storm and LA Woman. Riders I heard first time on either John Berks or David Gresham's music shows on Springbok Radio. They had fifteen minutes each in the late afternoons. Never owned or saw the actual vinyl (LA Woman) until many years later. With an inside sleeve like this I doubt that it would've passed the sensors. Edit :Will put something on the other thread.

My kleindogter vertel van 'n wonderlike uitstappie na 'n "diereplaas" saam met die skool. Sy is in gr.2. Alles ingeneem oor koeie, volstruise en nog wat. "Weet Oupa, daar is akkedisse so lank soos 'n mens. Nee , nie krokodille nie. Maar hulle moet in die son bly anders gaan hulle dood, want hulle bloed is koud.So hulle sit die heeldag in die son en fokus."

Dof joke . Deleted