Practically Classics Forum

I use a Hi-Mac Martin. Bit of a Ford fan me.

A bit fed up at work at the mo. Worked too many hours earlier in the year and burned myself out a bit.

Luckily, my last 7 miles home is over the moors with virtually no other traffic. The punk and metal has been replaced for a while with Air and Steely Dan.

ive got a jcb, thankfully theres no radio..

Maaarrghk wrote:I use a Hi-Mac Martin. Bit of a Ford fan me.

Off topic and joking aside, I knew the works manager of Hymac (Not sure if there is any kind of connection to Hi-Mac), who had owned a few classics, like an Austin Healey 3000 (It sat in his garage, awaiting restoration but he never got round to it), that I think he'd had since the 1960s (He died a year or two back); the factory wasn't far from me. It seemed totally bananas that the Hymac concern was allowed to go down the pan, only for the (I think) WDA to pour in a lot of money, for a new Halla factory to be built a few miles away, only a few years later and that all came to nothing; Halla never even moved in .

Given my username have a guess????

Megadeth, Metalica and currently a bit of Static X on the heavy side.

Lep, Hawkwind, Iron Maiden, G`n`R and Motorhead on the other end of the scale.

So a "silver machine with" a "502" to do the "1320"?

Sadly too many projects just "Rust in Peace"...

Must admit to not having much by the Metal Lickers in my collection apart from the covers album they did, "Garage Inc". Cracking version of "Whisky In The Jar" on there as well as a couple of Discharge covers. And their version of the Anti-Nowhere Leagues "So What" just has to be played at full volume - small boys taught me all those words. Honest.

Got quite a bit of Hawkwind and Motorhead and saw them both many years ago - Hawkwind were very disappointing.

Oooo Hawkwind- I've got some old vinyl I bought when I was a spaced out teenager, which still gets an occasional outing when nobody's home- 35 years or so of enjoyment from 'in search of space' (fold out Hawklords shield sleeve ) , ''doremi fasol latido', some great riffing and electronic noise, pretty weird and trippy then and still pretty weird and trippy now in fact. It gets a bit more mainstream around the time of ''the Hall of the mountain grill' and 'quark, strangeness, and charm', but it's still a unique sound. It's a shame really, most people only know 'Silver Machine', but there's a huge body of work behind that song...........plus of course there was Stacia .....but she must be a pensioner by now

Oh God! Oh God! Oh God! Oh God! Oh God! Oh God! Oh God! OOOOOOOOOH GOD!!!!!

I wish you hadn't mentioned her. But I'm glad you did.

Check out a band called Pegasi 51 on Yoochoob - a bit like Hawkwind meets Joy Division.

Just off to STEAL some Blues Band off BT Junkie now.......

Hawkwinds Silver Machine is a classic, but probably one of the most overdone ones out there, my first "night out" listening to a band in the eighties, Fox lane Cricket club Leyland, and they played Silver Machine, out of that genre / scene just about every band I ever saw locally played......Silver Machine, that and Deep Purples Smoke on the water.

Same went for most every Motorbike Rally I went on, yep.... Silver Machine and Smoke on the Water, so much so I can bearly bear to listen to them now unless I've had a couple.

And who needed Stacia when we had our own naked ladies dancing round a campfire at St Helens Rugby club on a very cold February night

Now, Chuck Berry, I saw him in concert at Southport Floral hall in the early Nineties, he just can't be done to death

Havng had a couple, I might nip off to Youtube for a dose of .......... Silvermachine...... just to get a blast from my past, then again, Marillion or Judas Priest might just win out , or Quo, Quo are always good, or even Ninas 99 Red Balloons, thats it I'm off to Utube.

Hi Arceye.

I did many Bike rallies back in the 90's (back in my dreadlock daze)and am still a MAG member. I have a FJ1200, Royal Enfield Crusader and Honda 90 thingy in my shed - all broken!

The songs I always hated most at the rallies (and every band seemed to play them) were Baby Please Don't Go, Roadhouse Blues, ("I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer" - yes, yes your so bloody cool aren't you? Oh God, I wish I was that cool, now just bugger off!) and Mustang Sally. To this day, one of my favorite lines is "Mustang Sally stuffed in jars" from The Mojo Man From Mars by The Cramps (RIP Lux Interior).

I went to see Quo at Reading in 87, just so I could say "Oh yeah man, like I've seen Quo". That was the best gig I have EVER been to in my life!

Just been re-aquainting myself with the Dresden Dolls - check out "Girl Anachronism" while your down at Yoochoob.

Me,I'm into reggae,mainly roots stuff but the odd bit of dancehall too,Hip-Hop but generally old school for me,house,garage ,again from yesteryear,drum 'n bass & jungle ,but I do like a bit of dubstep to try and keep up with the 'yoot dem'.