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At The Back => Time Out => Topic started by: MrBump on July 16, 2009, 02:19:07 PM

Title: The Secret Policemans Ball
Post by: MrBump on July 16, 2009, 02:19:07 PM
Piggy Pox has got me trawling the web again.

I remember this first time around - some lovely playing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9GiAu4Z40U&feature=PlayList&p=2C6CC2658D010612&index=0&playnext=1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9GiAu4Z40U&feature=PlayList&p=2C6CC2658D010612&index=0&playnext=1)

... and I think that this is one of my favourite all time clips:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqNl6Tc70M0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqNl6Tc70M0)

Edit - actually I think that this is my favourite clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyZEl8g2I7E&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyZEl8g2I7E&feature=related)

Title: Re: The Secret Policemans Ball
Post by: FELINEGUITARS on July 16, 2009, 02:50:48 PM
Gilmour is great as ever
Serious Mullet on that bassplayer
Title: Re: The Secret Policemans Ball
Post by: Philly Q on July 16, 2009, 10:20:23 PM
Serious Mullet on that bassplayer

Is that Tony Franklin from Blue Murder?

To be fair, Gilmour was pretty well mulleted-up too.  And so was I, in those days.  :oops:
Title: Re: The Secret Policemans Ball
Post by: CaptainDesslock on July 17, 2009, 01:09:40 AM
wow,

were you people around for this music? cause I sure wasn't!
Title: Re: The Secret Policemans Ball
Post by: Jonny on July 17, 2009, 01:29:58 AM
I wish I was.

Another good Gilmour performance, a classic obviously.

Comfortably Numb: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-MLxgkiPNg
Title: Re: The Secret Policemans Ball
Post by: mikeluke on July 17, 2009, 07:22:00 AM
Some great comedy moments in SPB too - I've tried to find a clip of Chris Langham on "How to speak Japanese" but failed - if you ever find it - a classic!!
Title: Re: The Secret Policemans Ball
Post by: Philly Q on July 17, 2009, 08:05:50 AM
wow,

were you people around for this music? cause I sure wasn't!

I wasn't there, but I was certainly around

It was a strange time, I don't think any period in recent history looks more dated than the mid-'80s.  At one point it seemed like all the old-school rock stars grew mullets, wore peculiar jewellery and dressed in big baggy suits like Duran Duran and the cast of Miami Vice.
Title: Re: The Secret Policemans Ball
Post by: Plexi Ken on July 17, 2009, 10:42:16 AM
I think any era where people are dressed 'in fashion' looks dated  :)
Some guy in jeans 'n' t-shirt in the 1950 looks pretty much like some guy in jeans 'n' t-shirt now.
Title: Re: The Secret Policemans Ball
Post by: MrBump on July 17, 2009, 10:49:28 AM
The 1980s were definitely an odd time.

I remember looking at picture of guys from the 1970s and thinking that they looked really bad.  Me in my burgundy stay-pressed trousers, burgundy cardigan and moon boots.

And Harrington jacket...

Yikes!
Title: Re: The Secret Policemans Ball
Post by: HTH AMPS on July 17, 2009, 11:12:56 AM
Serious Mullet on that bassplayer

Is that Tony Franklin from Blue Murder?

To be fair, Gilmour was pretty well mulleted-up too.  And so was I, in those days.  :oops:

that vid with Gilmour is proof that nobody escaped the 80s - that dreadful cricket-bat guitar and dodgy chorus, urgh!!!  Where is a vomit emoticon when you need one.

Title: Re: The Secret Policemans Ball
Post by: MrBump on July 17, 2009, 11:30:07 AM
... and speaking of the 1980s, one of my fav artists from that period, playing one of my fav tracks:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ddJRBQFRoY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ddJRBQFRoY)

(... and no, that's not an especially large PRS - he really is that tiny...)
Title: Re: The Secret Policemans Ball
Post by: Philly Q on July 17, 2009, 09:55:06 PM
... and speaking of the 1980s, one of my fav artists from that period, playing one of my fav tracks:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ddJRBQFRoY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ddJRBQFRoY)

(... and no, that's not an especially large PRS - he really is that tiny...)


Always liked that song, despite the hideously twee keyboard sound on that performance!  He always seemed like he secretly a bit of a guitar hero disguised as a pop star.

Since I'm making fashion-related comments on this thread... imaginative use of mohawk to hide hair loss!  :P

I hope he realises the beard and glasses make him look like a Gary Glitter action figure....

(http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p216/phillyq/SNN1135GL_173295a.jpg)






Title: Re: The Secret Policemans Ball
Post by: MrBump on July 18, 2009, 03:49:26 PM
... spooky that you never see Gary Glitter and Nik Kershaw in the same room together...