Monday
Nov072011
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Monday, November 7, 2011 at 07:11AM What No Chips?
Accept NO Imitations!
THIS is Bentleys Blog!
In this Months Blog ...
Is there Life after Debt?
Squeeze on the Kenny Everett Video Show
Revue ... of the Wailers @ the Greyhound Pub!
The Quintet is Complete! - Final 'Mad' Squeeze Pic!
Pulling Mussels - get it right troup!
BUT 1st...
Attention! Darwinians!
Do YOU think that we're all descended from Apes?
Well why don't you put some photos of them up on your walls along with all your other relatives!
Bentleys Blog ... A Gigantic Space Time Donut!
I was examined by a psychiatrist the other day... apparently I have O.C.B.D.
Obsessive Compulsive Blogging Disorder.
A Breefer encounter still ...
Natty Dread
I wuz there at the 1st. Wailers gig of the 1973 'Catch a Fire' tour of the UK @ the Greyhound
Pub on Fulham Palace Road. Read on ....
I got a phone call from Snips singer with the Sharks who were stable-mates along side
the Wailers on Chris Blackwells 'ISLAND' Record Label ...
"you've gotta check out the Wailers at the Greyhound tonight" ... So duty bound - I went along
to the Pub with girlfriend Janette. Upon arrival I was immediately hussled backstage to meet the band ...
(why is it always me?)
The dressing room was so thick with smoke (Rastaman as opposed to Rothman) that I
couldn't quite make out who (or what) was in there ... and what on earth was that sound coming out of their
mouths? I could hardly understand a word they said - but I was just fascinated by the patois
these weird and wonderful Jamaican musicians spoke. I was introduced to Peter Tosh - he looked like Malcolm X
and (although I didn't realise at the time) actually was a Political Activist and Revolutionary. Blimey!
Somebody handed me a Spliff ... was that Bob?! ... even though he was not yet the legend that
he was to become, I did have a the feeling that I was in the presence of Musical Royalty!
In a Babylon ...
We didn't know what to expect from this strange band from the Caribbean ... we hadn't even heard Reggae Music
before! - apart from songs like Lie Down Girl (not Lie Down Girl but songs like them)
The Wailers ambled on stage in Green Gold & Red (as opposed to Red Gold and Green). Even though it was 37
years ago, I can still remember the tremendous impact of their opening number - Rastaman Chant ...
Bunny Wailer thumped out a slow hypnotic beat on an ethnic drum while the rest of the group 'wailed' over the
top ... it was Primitive ... African ... Roots ... Reggae ... it was evi ... it was IRI. I turned to share my
amazement with Janette ... but she had been transported to another world - where Haile Salassie
was King.
Better than any ting I ever erd ...
Peter Tosh shared the role of lead vocals with Bob Marley and sang a knockout rendition of 400 Years ...
The incredible harmonies on Concrete Jungle and Slave Driver were as good as anything by the
the Beatles or the Beach Boys!
Bob Marley wailed his way through Midnight Ravers - Slave Driver - Lively Up yourself -
Stir It Up. My mind was blown - the magic of Reggae had worked its way into
my heart ... A life changing gig? Sure ... I just wish I'd been there!
Transcend the yawning gulf of space ... just read Bentleys Blog!!
Rant No. 653
UNIVERSITY - it's a scam!
Is there Life after Debt?
University Students (in this country) are in debt. They all end up owing the government
tens of thousands of pounds for the outrageous cost of this (so called) higher educashion. Calling it a 'grant' is
a contradiction in terms - It's pure THEFT!
Why should we pay for a University education at all? - It's free in scotland!
Innocent school kids are encouraged at an impressionable age - by their teachers and parents to
study hard in order to get the results they'll need to become 'economic slaves'.
The Blogtist sums it up ...
University is NOT the form of higher learning it pretends to be ... 1st. and foremost it is a system
designed to keep naive students in crippling debt for their foreseeable future, and in the pockets of
government psychopaths who have twisted the education system to satisfy their own greed!
Nuff said .. Rant over ..
taste the blog lick this spot > O hmmm ... paisley!
next ...
No room for me Nuts Bruce!
On the Kenny Everett Video show I was in the LWT wardrobe department - looking for something interesting to wear on the show. On one of the clothes rails I spotted a lovely silver and blue lame jacket! "Elvis Costello wore that on the tele last week" commented the wardrobe lady. "Ooo well then - that's good enough for me" - so I borrowed it for the show. (see link below)
But the 'Tale of the Drape' doesn't end there! ... Nooo!
I used to be a Mod!
I also purloined a Green 2Tone suit that I found hung up in one of the dressing rooms that Bruce Foxton had (allegedly) left when the Jam where in there. It fitted - so I nicked it!
I wore it over the next couple of years until it fell to bits! Thanx Bruce! ... It was a bit tight under the crutch though!
But what (I hear you ask) about the TV Show?
Well ... We played our latest Single Cool for Cats (so it must have been 1979!)
The bizarre set included lots of dry ice and an aeroplane! How did they get it in there? Must've flown it in especially for the show. Anyway - happy mammarys ... And now through the wonders of Science & Technology, we can re-live the experience - together! ...
and now a message from the King of Grease ...
"Since I read through some back issues of Bentleys Blog
all my constipation worries are over!"
... and the Blog Continueth with ...
it's a Mad Mad Mad Mad
World pic No.5"Do You Want Some" (more?)
well that's the full set folks! .. now you can put them all up on the wall!
now what's this:- ???
PULLIN MUSSELS - GET IT RIGHT GEEZER!
Several jolly musicians have put up videos on YouTube demonstrating the bass-line to (among others) Pulling Mussels.
I watched one of them and noticed that in the chorus of the song where Glenn sings 'Pullin Mussels from a Shell,
Pullin Mussels from a Shell' that the budding bass-player was playing my bass-line in single notes -
whereas on the record I play the chorus in octaves ...
So I just couldn't resist leaving this comment on his Video:-
"Nice try but - you could improve it by playing the chorus in octaves for starters."
to which I was happy to get the VERY amusing reply:
"Interesting bit of feedback considering there are no octaves in Squeeze's original recording"
Priceless!
In next months Bentley's Blog ...
pull the wool over your own eyes ... it's a Blogspiracy!
get mistaken for the Happy Mondays! Chicken Holocaust - A Blogtism of Fire
before you go - just ask yourself
Why did I read this?
the Blogtist
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totally feeling this blog. especially wot no chips!
wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein ...
Since I've read Bentleys Blog I've unlearned everything I never knew!
I think I love you, John. Send money soon and keep playing in octaves.
Tom
Favourite John Bentley quote:
"I think I'll hit the lilo"
You had to be there. It was awesome.
Hey JB.
Have you ever played tourbus cricket?
Each pub (or 'bar' outside of The Commonwealth) passed en route to your next concert (or 'gig' outside the 1950s) is scored according to the number of legs in its name. So, General Henry's would score 2 (assuming bipedality). The Red Lion would score 4 etc.,
Null royal entries (The Crown, The King's Head etc) are scored, naturally, at zero. Non-royal null entries (The New Inn, The Dolphin) are the equivalent of a catch, LBW or a puffy twizzler (please refer to Wisden 1958, pages 119-121). Parkin's rule does not, as I'm sure you know, apply outside the UK.
I honestly believe that if you and your plucky bandmates were to pass the long dusty interstate miles between engagements in this fashion, it would promote a perky and cheerful disposition among you all, thereby rendering the concert tour a more tolerable experience for all.
iPad app to follow.
Yours in bass, Wal