Practically Classics Forum

rich. wrote:tea all over the keyboard

I don't know that tune, maybe if you hum it Bob will play it..

Music to watch during a prostate rebore? GIYF, so I asked it and the result?
This: https://youtu.be/l8u9nijiieg

Mars was used in the film 2001 space odyssey.

I hate the birdie song.

Bob

I am familiar with Holst's work. But thanks for taking the time out of your busy schedule to patronise me again. It's strange to think that Mars was actually completed before the start of the '14-'18 war.
Old Gustav must have had a crystal ball.

History wrote:I hate the birdie song.

Party pooper alert!

You said that you didn't know that tune. So I gave an answer.

I am not well up on Holst. I thought it was 1920s.

How about Fingals Cave. ( spelling) As a colonoscopy sound track.

I had a MRI scan and they allow you to have music of your own choice


Bob

I get MRIs every so often and usually, they put me through a state of the art machine at the RVI, down in Newcastle, but once, the expensive, new facility had been closed because of an outbreak of one of these super bugs that one has to visit hospitals to catch so my appointment was made for another, more local hospital and they advised me that this machine only played cassette tapes but not CDs so would I bring a tape of my own to listen to during the time in the tunnel. So I took a cassette album that I'd only just bought that week, an expensive and rare Django Reinhardt original on a Japanese domestic label that was in mint condition.
There I was in the scarier cousin of the sunbed, listening to the world's best known Belgian musician spanking his plank, all the time trying not to move my head as this rubbish machine had no forehead strap on its head rest, when suddenly, the tape speed went all awry, followed by that sickening sound that you get when the takeup spool fails to do its job and the precious tape is fed out of the cassette by the pinch roller before something snaps and the music vanishes.

Imagine the bollocking I was given by the nurse for pressing the panic button because of what their machine had done to my tape! It took me from then (2008) to last year to replace that album and now, when a new appointment comes, I always make sure that they have the means by which to play CDs or memory cards. Lossy compression might be killing music but it beats having a cherished recording eaten by the NHS and their tiny glycerine budget. A little of that would have softened the idler tyre sufficiently and the machine would have eaten someone else's tape. I offered to repair their cassette player for them, they said that it hadn't been reliable for years and they'd known this all the time. No wonder my folks always go private!

Django top guitar player seriously good. Excellent choice for the tunnel of fun not.
I discovered a little about claustrophobia.
Fortunately I sort of pulled myself together.
I took an REM cd with me.

The scan was done 9/11 day. Never forget it. At the time I was working for Plod ( bless them) and I got back from the Hospital and in our mess room was loads of cops watching the TV. I thought it was a disaster movie.

Party pooper,
I prefer to use the bog alone all by myself self with no one with me. Solo.

Bob