Conference marvin::uk_music

    what is the label? I may want to order that!
    
    jay

    Its on EMI Records. 
    
    I'll put in the proper serial number tomorrow!!
    
    Harvey
    
    PS...I've just read a review of the LP and it seems that its got 5 less
         tracks than the CD.

       Re -.1>
>>    ...I've just read a review of the LP and it seems that its got 5 less
>>       tracks than the CD.

       *FIVE* tracks less?  What a con! We haven't all got CD's. Which
       are  the ones that are missing? If it's any of the important ones
       (like Jollity Farm) then I'll keep my money. Or better still, get
       someone with the CD version to tape it for their own private use
       (in my car!)

       Ian.

    Have you noticed that the Inspiral Carpets sound like Blondie.  Same
    guitars, organ and drums.  Debbie Harry is better looking though!
    
    
    matty

    re .1
    
    The numbers are ... LP EMS 1335
                  CASSETTE TCEMS 1335
                        CD CZ 196
    and what looks like an American Type number on EMI type recordings (if
    anyone would like to give me a definitive description I'd appreciate
    it)   CDP 7 92675 2
    
    Happy Listening
    
    
    re .3
    
    Well I'm afraid to say that "Jollity Farm" and "My Pink half of the
    Drainpipe" are NOT included on the LP version. However a deal could
    possibly be struck here.......
    
    
    Harvey (who's neighbours think he's got a parrot now !!)
    
    
    
    re .4
    
>               <<< Note 664.4 by SHAPES::BROWNM "Lucozade kid" >>>
>
>    Have you noticed that the Inspiral Carpets sound like Blondie.  Same
>    guitars, organ and drums.  Debbie Harry is better looking though!
>    
>    
>    matty
    
     I must admit that I didn't notice the similarity. Debbie Harry may be
    better looking but whats this to do with the Bonzos!!. Ah wait a
    minute, should I have taken the 'n' out of Bonzo's :-)
    
    
    
    H
    

    I hope Blind Date and The Big Shot are on there as well as Urban
    Spaceman and my personal favorite to play to guests you want to leave:
    We Are Normal.
    
    
    We are normal and we want our freedom!
    We are normal and we dig the queen!
    
    

    re -.1
    
    >I hope Blind Date and The Big Shot are on there as well as Urban
    >Spaceman and my personal favorite to play to guests you want to leave:
    >We Are Normal.
    
    Well you're almost there !!!
    
    'Big Shot','Urban Spaceman' & 'We Are Normal' are on the CD...'Blind
    Date' didn't make it I'm afraid.....
    
    ........and since I have a track listing right beside me ....>>>>
    
    
    On the CD we have ...(In no particular order!)
    
    The Intro & The Outro
    Canyons of Your Mind
    Trouser Press
    My Pink Half of the Drainpipe
    Mickey's Son & Daughter
    Jollity Farm
    Mr Slater's Parrot
    I'm The Urban Spaceman
    Jazz, Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold !
    Readymades
    Rhinocratic Oaths
    Humanoid Boogie
    Can Blue Men Sing The Whites
    Bad Blood
    Shirt
    Postcard
    The Strain
    We Are Normal
    Big Shot
    Sport (The Odd Boy)
    Mr Apollo
    Tent
    

    Sounds like a good compilation. Has anyone seen the CD in the shops
    yet?
    
    Its a shame they couldn't find room for Beautiful Zelda or Able
    Mabel or You Done My Brain In .....
    
    Maybe a case for Best Of Bonzos Vol II?
    
    Barry.

    re -.1
    
    >Sounds like a good compilation. Has anyone seen the CD in the shops
    >yet?
    
    Our Price in Basingstoke have it...and if they've got it  ....
    
    H
    
    

    Aren't they the group that did "Rolandson's End" ???
    
    - Dave K.

    You mean the film/LP "Henry at Rawlinsons End".. (or do you)
    
    Which was by Vivian Stanshall (one Bonzo)
    
    Dave

.11�    You mean the film/LP "Henry at Rawlinsons End".. (or do you)

    Yup...that is the one. Funny, I have it on a tape(made for me) must
    be a compilation or someone's edit version.
    
    - Dave K.

    The film starred Trevor Howard as Henry, and Stanshall as his brother
    Hubert. It has been available on video, and is every bit as good as the
    album was (but not everyone will see the joke). Channel 4 have showed 
    it a couple of times, but not before 1.30am.
    
    There was a follow up LP, but I haven't heard it. Anyone else?
    
    Dave

	re .6 'sfunny, I always thought the words in "We Are Normal"
 	were:

	We are normal and we want our freedom
	We are normal and we dig Bert Weedon!

	Does anyone have a lyrics sheet?

	�Paul�

    Thanks for the song list. To me, its worth picking up. I've heard
    stories about some of the songs on there I havent heard. Look forward
    to it. 
    
    Re:last   
    		Bert Weedon?

    Would somebody like to do a "Where are they now...." of the Bonzo's ?
    
    H

    Where are they now.....
    
    I saw a play/musical by Vivian Stanshall at the Bloomsbury Theatre
    called Stinkfoot. It was a very funny story about a ventriloquist
    called The Great Soliquisto. Stanshall did not appear but his voice
    was used at some point (as God maybe?). I believe he wrote the play
    while he was recovering in hospital from drink and nervous problems.
    That was two years back. I don't know what he's doing now.
    
    A picture of Legs Larry Smith appeared in an article in one of the
    sunday sh*t sheets with George Harrison. According to the article
    Smith is freeloading off Harrison at his mansion somewhere. They
    are both into worshipping effigies of Hitler, blah,blah, Harrisons
    wife does not get on with Smith, blah,blah. Not a very believable
    article!
    
    Any news of Neil Innes, Rodney Slater, etc..
    
    Barry.

    I seem to remember Stanshall has been gigging lately with a band
    called The Rough Men (?)
    
    What of Vernon Dudley Bohay Nowell??
    
    Bob

Neil Innes has been doing the Quality Street 'Magic Moments' ads recently,
though I can think of products which would be more suitable (e.g. shirts,
tents etc.)

Derek

    I can remember seeing "Roger Ruskin Spear And The Slightly Dangerous
    Brothers" in about '84, which consisted of himself plus a pianist
    who used to play with "The Whoopee Band". The set was predictably
    mad which featured Spear's famous three necked guitar, Michael
    Parkinson cut out figure, ironing boards, saxophones and other assorted
    exploding objects. Complete loonatic!!
    
    Not sure what he's been up to recently.
    
    Julian. 

    Who were the members of the Bonzo's?  I remember Neil Innes, how many
    others were there?
    
    Ian.

	Well, they were quite a large group. As far as I remember, the full
	lineup was:

		"Legs" Larry Smith 		Drums
		Sam Spoons			Rhythm pole
		Vernon Dudley Bohay-Nowell	Bass guitar
		Neil Innes			Piano
		Rodney Desborough Slater	Saxaphone
		Roger Ruskin Spear		Tenor Sax
		Vivien Stanshall		Trumpet
		Big John Wayne			Xylophone
		Robert Morley			Guitar
		Billy Butlin			Spoons
		Adolf Hitler			Vibes
		Princess Anne			Suzaphone
		Liberace			Clarinet
		Ted Armstrong			Vocals
		Lord Snooty & his pals		Tap dancing
		Harold Wilson			Violin
		Franklin McCormack		Harmonica
		Eric Clapton			Ukelele
		Sir Kenneth Clarke 		Bass Sax
		A sessions gorilla		Box humana
		Incredible shrinking man	Euphonium
		Peter Scott			Duck call
		Casanova			Horn
		General De Gaul			Accordian
		Roy Roger			Trigger
		Wild Man of Borneo		Bongos
		Count Basie Orchestra		Triangle
		The Rawlinsons			Trombone
		Dan Druff                       Huh!
                Quasimodo			Bells
		Braniac				Banjo
		Val Doonigan			Himself
		Max Jaffa			(very appealing)
		Zebra Kid & Horace Batchelor	Percussion
		J. Arthur Rank			Gong
		

    Some of the Bonzo's stuff which you can get in the shops today....
    
    Keynsham
    Tadpoles
    A Doughnut In Granny's Greehouse
    
    H

    
    I've been waiting for a Bonzo compilation for years, but it doesn't
    appear to be available in the U.S. I called E.M.I in New York and
    was transferred back and forth between about a dozen offices, each
    office containing a different confused individual who had never
    *heard* of the band, or the release. I'd really like to get my
    hands on this sucker, so if anyone has seen it available in the
    U.S and has any info in regards to label/cat.# please enter a reply.
     However, if someone from the file would be willing to do something
    via the mail that would be great.......
    
                        Mail---------> fsoa::sbeaupre
    
                                   Thanks, Steve

Also spotted of late, `Gorilla' on CD.

Lee

    Great to hear that Gorilla is on CD - it implies that others will
    follow. Is it released in the UK?
    
    As for Rawlinson End, the LP (& CD yes it exists!!), film and book,
    are good, but do not compare to the 10 (approx) 20minute sessions
    on the John Peel show, which included (about a year ago) Stanshall's
    comeback in "The Great Eating at Rawlinson End", which unlike most
    comebacks, I think was the best(iality) of the lot.
    
    I never saw the Bonzos live, though I saw their spinoff "Grimms".
    Also, when I was a student, I used to sweep the roads in Kingston,
    and remeber sweeping outside Ruskin-Spear's house in Alfred Road,
    where I observed his "Giant Kinetic Wardrobe" hanging in the top
    bedroom windows, and 2 small children(his?) in the front garden
    of this rather unassuming modest house. This was around 1972.
    
    I have to say it, but I still think the Bonzos are great. IN the
    early days I seemed to regard them as an English version of Zappa's
    Mother's, but without the sarcasm.
    
    Ruskin-Spear did a couple of pretty good LPs, one of which was called
    "UNUSUAL", but for me Stanshall is the hero. I think that when teamed
    with Innes, the pair made a very underrated song-writing team, with
    some real gems especially on "Keynsham" & "Doughnut". 
    
    The "Bestiality" compilation on CD also included a gem not previously
    available on any LP, called "Ready-mades" - great stuff- why was
    it not released before?

    Loved the film - unique.
    
    have the Peel tapes ever been available ?
    R.

    re .26 
    
    Wasn't Ready Mades the b-side of mumble mumble.....?
    
    Bob

    AS far as I know they have never been released from Peel's show,
    in any form. The Rawlinson CD is the same as the LP. In fact there
    is a 2nd Rawlinson LP with a title concerning "..Kraal..".
    
    One of my favourite "Rawlinson" pieces is the bit where Sir Henry
    decides to put his wine-connoisseur guest to the test, by popping
    down to the cellar, after dinner, & offering his guest a "special"
    glass to identify.  After passing a few initial wine-tasting comments,
    which also drew attention to the unusually warm temperature of the
    "wine", it finally dawned on the guest with horror & ghastly
    spluttering, just what it was he had been drinking. Sir Henry responds
    with a boozy laugh "...Now you know what it is- Whose is it?"
    
    Alex. 

This seems to be the best note for this ...

Has anyone seen the new Cadbury's Mini Eggs advert ? Recognise the music ?

I hope that the royalties are flowing in the right direction !

Cheers,

    Derek.

    Last night on BBC-2's "LATE NIGHT" programme, there was a special on
    Viv Stanshall. They commissioned him (and a group which included Rodney
    Slater on brass)to present a musical autobiography (of himself).
    
    It lasted about 20mins. and included a series of songs many of which
    were familiar in the "Rawlinson End" episodes, punctuated with
    monologue delivered only the the way that Stanshall can do.
    
    Bits were sad, as it transpired that Viv did not get on with his Dad
    from a very early age and was eventually disowned by him. One of his
    songs parodies his retired Dad as an "armchair" as he was always in it
    glued to the TV - a sad song.
    
    As a performer Viv came over as confident and well-polished, which
    suprised me when you consider his (previous?) valium/booze addictions.
    His voice (his greatest assett) sounds as good as ever, and the backing
    band comprised strings, brass, drums etc. & were also good.
    
    Viv (+ band) starts a tour 5th Dec., so check in "Time Out" for dates.
    
    Alex

    Yeah, he wuz great!
    

    Does anyone know of any dates/venues of Viv Stanshall's UK tour which
    began 5th Dec? I couldn't see any in this week's NME (or Time Out).
    
    Yours sincerely
    Nellie Maynard (Mrs.)
    	".......Giff him a nice cold shower!"
    
    (Alex)

    All the Bonzo LPs have just been re-released as a very tempting
    cut-price 3 x cd set. 
    
    Each cd (from EMI) comes complete with a comprehensive 10-page booklet of 
    Bonzo history & info. (each different & complementary to the others
    and contains at least 2 full LPs on each. Each cd cost
    me 8.49pounds at my local friendly cd shop.
    
    1) "The Intro"  contains "Gorilla" & "Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse"
    2) "The Outro" contains "Tadpoles" & "Keynsham"
    3) "Dog Ends" contains "Lets Make Up..." + 5 or 6 v.early Bonzo tracks
    (Temperance -7 style) and also 3 or 4 post-Bonzo solo collaborations
    including Viv's "Sean Head Band" featuring Eric Clapton!
    
    The cd covers depict a 60's style scrapbook collage of Bonzo symbols
    and imagery.
    
    Not bad value (though unexpected) from EMI!
    
    
    Alex
    

   Do any of those have this on it...?

   "My brother makes the noises for the talkies"

   Dave

    Yes, "My Brother makes the noises..." is on the 3rd disc ("Dog Ends")
    
    Rgds. Alex

    Have you got a light Mac??
    
    
    No , but ive got a dark brown overcoat!
    
    
    Nigel

    Stanshalls voice for me , alway makes lines sound really funny. I often
    think of 
    
    " I studied the line of her enormous boobs "
    
    and 
    
    " I normally pack a rod but in pajamas I only carry scars from normandy
    beach "
    
    Big-Shot
    
    Question:
    
    In bad blood what is it that you can see running down his leg ?
    Also does he say " ..like an egg stain on your chin, you can lick it
    but it just won't go away" ? I've listened to this over and over but I
    ca'nt quite make it out.
    
    Priceless all the same.

    It's "an egg-stain on your jeans". Aksherlly.
    
    Piers

    Also it's "I pack a rod in Pajamas. I carry sars from Normandy Beach"
    
    Yours nit-pickingly.
    
    Piers

    re .39
    
    
    " I studied the line of her enormous boobs "
    
    Sorry, but this line is wrong as well!!! After much deliberating,
    singing and personal observations, the line is....
    
    " I studied the swell of her enormous boobs "
                    ^^^^^
    
    H 
    
    
    
    

    One of my favourite Stanshall lines is:
    
       "Wrestle poodles.....and win!"
    
    (from "Mr.Appllo")
    
    
    
    also the classic sick note from Nellie Maynard (Mrs.) that includes:
    
    "....Nigel still feels a bit snotty..."
    
    
    from
    Alex (who still feels a bit NORMAL!!)

    
    "Only just married and it sticks out a mile"
    
    " I was once a 4 stone apology and now I'm 2 seperate gorillas"

    "My pink half of the drainpipe.....
          ... separates me from you..."
    
    Racist/Apartheid overtones here?
    
          ..... and who really is "The beautiful Zelda"?
    
    
    And for the ultimate in English imagery:
    "...stand upright in my wheelbarrow and pretend I'm Bodeacia" (from
    Rawlinson End)
    
    Alex
    
    Alex

    Anyone seen the new Ruddles TV advert? 
    
    It's based on Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, and can only be described as
    BIZARRE. Sir Henry & entourage are all seated/sprawled around the
    manorial banqueting table, which among other things (Ruddles beer?)
    supports bowls of bright green gunge into which heads fall. Viv
    Stanshall is among the "diners" and does all the voice-overs. The best
    bit is where the diners manager to get themselves (somehow!) together
    and start rowing with the result that the entire table and diners
    proceed to row as one out of the room!
    
    The ad is so weird, that you are hardly aware that its purpose to to
    sell Ruddles beer. Maybe they are trying to associate their beer with
    English eccentricity, or more likely with being p*ssed out of your
    brain! Either way, it's a refreshing change from the previously
    prevailing imagery of good-looking/macho/one-of-the-lads.
    
    Alex (I prefer cider, anyway)
    
    PS. It's good to see Stanshall is still alive and sporting a jolly good
    "Goatee" beard.

>Either way, it's a refreshing change from the previously
>prevailing imagery of good-looking/macho/one-of-the-lads.
    
    
Its illegal in the UK to portray machismo in beer ads... hence the non-drink
related ads of Harp, McEwans, Guiness, Carling Black label...        
    
    +Mark+

    
> Its illegal in the UK to portray machismo in beer ads..
    
    If only it were illegal to portray machismo in adverts of shaving
    products. Then we'd be spared those horrendous American Gillette
    commercials.
    
    Trevor

    On the subject of the Bonzos ( about a year ago I'll grant you..) can
    someone else confirm it is Neil Innes in that TV commercial for
    Insurance (N&P??) where the bloke reads his morning mail on the train
    platform whilst waiting for his train to go into work, and then doesn't
    get on it and does a "Morecambe and Wise" skippy-run down the platform
    with his wife?
    
    Cheers,
    Ant.

    Yes it is.
    
    
    Ian.

    
    	Who's niel innes?

�    	Who's niel innes?
        
        Have a look at the note title then take a wild guess!
        
        Ian.
        
        BTW, I've seen the ad many times and never recognised him.

    Another thing, - not owning many Bonzo Dog LPs, is the track Niel Innes
    sung on Monty Python's "live at the hollywood bowl" (not "I'm the
    Urban Spaceman" on the banjo) - called something like "Its fun to be an
    idiot" available on any of the Bonzos' albums?
    
    Antony as himself (hello there...)

  Well, the first line is,

    "How sweet to be an idot"


 If that's any use?



  /Ian

    Hmmm, no contact for a while....
    
    I wonder if
    
    You're all BORED? 
    
    Ian (another Ian not the previous one)
    

    If anyone IS interested, anyway, my favourite line is
    "I'm singing just for you, covered in sequins <small laugh>"