RE: .2 Nov 2019 01:51
5bob,
Thank you for all the assorted (though generally rather obscure) music links.
However I do suspect some other posters (not to mention LSE's moderators) might object to you taking up BB space with such O/T stuff, so may I suggest just one link at a time, separated by a few days' interval, in future?
Some of the music brought back memories, but none so poignant as the album by Melanie, best known fo 'Look what they've done to my song, Ma'. In the summer of 1970, during her European tour (including the Isle of Wight festival), she played a sellout concert in Oxford. She stayed in town for two further days to fully visit the place, and somehow was tipped the wink about a 'folk music club' which met once a month in an annex of the 'Headington Girls School', a rather posh establishment on the outskirts of the City of Dreaming Spires. I used to attend said club, with a couple or three friends. Folk music (in the Bob Dylan, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell sense of the term) was still very much part of the zeitgeist then, and of course (given the venue) it was a good place to meet sweet young ladies.
So Melanie turned up and performed a few of her songs to an audience of maybe three dozen teenagers! But insisted on becoming part of the audience and letting the other musicians there do their stuff, as well. A magical evening.
'Folk evening' was a special event. It always started with a couple of (underage) pints, followed by a 'thrash' along the Northern Bypass in a Ford Cortina 1600 E belonging to the parents of the (of age) member of the clique, to 'do the ton'. Turn around at the northern roundabout, 'do the ton' again, then into Headington for the music. The 'club' closed at ten, which allowed for a final pint before chucking-out time, and our driver to deliver us to our various houses before himself embarking on a 25-mile journey to his parents' place in the country. During which he'd 'do the ton' again.
Happy days.
If this makes me sound like an irresponsible sort of person, I won't deny it, but I certainly wouldn't encourage anyone to get up to such behaviour these days.
However I do know that there's one occasional poster on this BB who used to get up to the same sort of mischief at the same sort of time, and in roughly the same neck of the woods!
However, no names, no packdrill.
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