Theo
Don't know when (well actually i do but I don't want to think about it) I'll be back again, oh babe, I am coming hoooommmeeeeeee!!! Oh babe, I love to say goodbyyeee (to Holland that is),,,
tomorrow morning, at 7 I'll be off to the airport, plane leaves at 12 in the afternoon and I will arrive at 1 in Denpasar on the 17th.. See ya!
Thorsten
Good luck Theo,
best time to leave Holland now, think the weather is just as terrible as here, make her happy !!!
all the best wishes
Thorsten
Dasha
Theo .. you dont look old enough to remember that Peter Paul and Mary tune. I am suprised (Saunrian would cos he's old like me) but enjoy yourself bro. looks like you are in for some good times
Cheers
Dasha
Cyn's
[b]RE: I[/b]
Theo,
Looks like there is a little excitment that goes with this post, good luck with it all and enjoy everything that comes your way.
I am still waiting for the finilisation of our move but with luck we will be back in Indonesia within the next 2 months.
Cindy
Jimbo
[b]RE: I[/b]
I remenber when the jet plane had props and no jets :-)
Thorsten
Hi Phil,
[i]Leaving on a jetplane[/i] was written by John Denver and on his first album
[i]Rhymes and Reasons[/i] on RCA in 1969.
Peter, Paul & Mary had their #1 hit with it end of 1969 in the USA!
The song was covered by lots of interprets, including Janis Joplin, Joan Baez and every boy scout camp with guitar and fire place :wink:
best regards also to Reni
Thorsten
PS: Is you dog still eating mobile phones?
Sanurian
[b]RE: I[/b]
Hey [b]Theo[/b]
You're probably in mid-flight as I'm writing this. Don't forget your clogs!
[b]Dasha[/b] wrote:
[quote]...Theo .. you dont look old enough to remember that Peter Paul and Mary tune...[/quote]There is no competition between Dasha and me with respect to age. I am definitely older. However, it sometimes surprises me how young buggers get the facts wrong.
[i]Peter, Paul & Mary[/i] had [b]nothing[/b] to do with the "Leaving On A Jet-Plane" song.
As far as I remember, it was written by John Denver around 1967 and a cover version was released in the same year by some group called [i]The Mitchell Trio[/i].
(Whoever they were. I forget, exactly.)
The ironic thing was that [b]John[/b] ([i]Country Road...Take Me Home[/i]) [b]Denver[/b] died in a plane crash years later. He was the pilot. It wasn't a "jet". Maybe that made a difference.
Hope you have a great time when you get here...
:D
Jimbo
[b]RE: I[/b]
definately PPM had the hit
froggy
[b]RE: I[/b]
lyrics like " Dont know when i'm coming back again" and indonesia airlines go hand in hand
manuel
[b]RE: I[/b]
drop a call when you landed!
Dasha
Thank You Thorsten for putting my good friend Philip on the right train / plane on this debate. Sorry to Theo for getting side tracked on the thread. Phil Knows I have a far better knowledge of music history in this area.
You’re turn Soul brother… I need a challenging question
PS looking very forward to seeing you and Reny in Sydney for da Leah and future son in law wedding – 4 weeks to go bro!!
Jimbo
[b]RE: I[/b]
I would love to know the answer to number 2. Someone once told me it was about trains but for the life of me I do not see how.
Sanurian
[b]RE: I[/b]
Yes, PPM had a hit with that song in 1969, but they didn't write it.
My curiosity aroused, I tracked down The (Chad) Mitchell Trio. John Denver was a member between 1965-68. The group reformed in 1987 with Denver.
And hi, [b]Thorsten[/b]
[quote]...The song was covered by lots of interprets, including Janis Joplin, Joan Baez and every boy scout camp with guitar and fire place...[/quote]It's still famous with Balinese players, even without fire-places.
As for "Hell-Boy", ([i]aka[/i] Arno)...it's not so much that he's given up eating hand-phones, we just don't leave them lying around any more (or remote controls, digital cameras, calculators, etc). No visitors' shoes/sandals are safe for more than five minutes. We put them on top of a book-case (the foot-wear, not the visitors).
:D
Sanurian
[b]RE: I[/b]
Hey there, [b]Dasha[/b]
[quote]...Your turn Soul brother… I need a challenging question...[/quote][u]Like what?[/u] (Is [b]that[/b] one?)
It seems to me that most "answers" to most "questions" can be found by trawling through search-engines, like Google. Where's the fun in that?
OK...here are a few random ones for you, because you asked for it:
1. What is the square root of -1?
2. What is [i]A Whiter Shader Of Pale[/i] actually about?
3. Who was [i]Mr Tambourine Man[/i]?
4. Who "sang" [i]Sixteen Screaming Dizz Busters[/i]?
5. Is the Sun yellow or chicken?
6. Was there really [i]A Big Bang[/i]?
7. What size underpants did Roy Orbison wear?
8. Is Space actually "empty" or not?
9. Are there "aliens" amongst us?
10. Why is the sky dark at night and does it have anything to do with onions?
Hope to catch up with you soon, Down Under.
:D
megabeast
Why do you presume Roy wore undies?
Sanurian
[b]RE: I[/b]
[b]megabeast[/b]:
Why do you presume he didn't?
I believe [b]The Big O[/b] was born in Texas, where nearly everything is [i]supposed[/i] to be big. "[i]Bigger than eight other states inside[/i]", etc.
As far as I know, every American I've met so far wears undies. So - maybe Texans wear bigger sizes, that's all.
Hmmm..."[b]mega[/b]"-beast?
[b]O[/b], just checked...you're from Canada, right?
Underwear optional up there, maybe?
I recall this line from some US war movie:
"[i]I don't know but I been told
Eskimo pussy is very cold[/i]"
:D
froggy
"Eskimo *&^%" is mighty cold came from Full Metal Jacket, a must see classic that also had "Me so Horny's" begining..... I loved that movie... The jelly donut part was killer... the true to life drill sgt. has his own T.V show now descirbing modern arms of the world.....
Dasha
Yer . Missed this post but fully agree Frog.
R. Lee Ermey rocks.
His role as the police captain in Seven is a masterpiece. When he talks to Summerfield and Mills in the 1st 2 murders… it turns me right on.
Is he your typical Kansas Man?
froggy
AHH! Dash, you've been missing out on a little action around here. I have never watched seven but will have to check it out, I would like to see a corrupt bali cop pull him over! He would totally get his ass chewed out and handed back to him!!
Dasha
Well sorry for the long reply Soul Bro. Been a little busy for the past month all over Australia and have missed the action on the BEF.
Sorry too for not catching you 2 in Newcastle last week but Eddies job got a little outa control and needed my full attention.
I hope the wedding down under went well.
Gayle sends her love also to you both.
NOW.
1. Nothing. No number multiplied by itself will be negative. (Had to SMS James Jakarta for that one Phil.. sorry) but I had a feeling it was FA.
2. Good question, And one I will gladly elaborate on as Procol Harum were one of my faves as a kid in the late sixties. It actually came out on one of my mum’s 20 supercharged hits records and my sisters and I would flog it to death along with Manfred Man’s Mr Ragamuffin Man and Thunder Clap Newman’s “Something’s in the Air”. Yes this song penned by Keith Reid (there was some legal wrangling recently with his, Moody Blues publisher, Gary Brooker) and hammered out on the Hammond by Mat Fisher was actually inspired by the long time session player Johan Sebastian Bach – played with Stones and Ten Years after I believe (I might be lying!) The piece was by Bach’s “Air On A G String”.
EC, Annie Lenox, Percy Sledge, Joe Cocker and even old Englebert, among others liked it that much they covered it too.
But the song came from a poem by Keith and it is about chicks and guys in relationships using sailing metaphors. The song is in fact a spoof. The idea was inspired by a guy that Reid has heard say at a party –“She turned a Whiter Shade of Pale”
Did you know that after they released this tune (which was the one of the biggest hits of 1967) they fired their drummer and guitarist and brought in the likes of Robin Trower before he set off on a path of Hendrix after Hendrix replicas?
It’s hard to say exactly what the song is about as there are so many theories (like Big Black Cow by Donald Fagen and Walter Becker AJA) but the references to The Millers Tale “As the Miller told his Tale” from Canterbury Tales could hold some clues as to what the LSD induced author was on about.
3. Bob penned this one but I think the Byrds made it famous, A bit like JJ Cale in After midnight etc etc with EC. Dylan Reckons it had nothing to do with drugs but about Bruce Langhorne who played some huge tambourine and played folk guitar around the mid sixties. It was the biggest rock folk song for it’s time as the story goes. I was a bit young for Bob myself but have appreciated it as I’ve got older.
4. Blue Oyster Cult wrote it but I believe another alternative band did it up somewhere in the early 90’s. A bit like the differnce in opinion between you and I with the PPand M and John Denver thing.
5. Chicken.
6. Yep there was a huge one here the other night when I got in from 5 weeks of living out of a suitcase with the wife.
7. Roy wore size 48 brown ringers. You know the old embassy two stripe shit catchers …cos he always got stage fright. Pretty shy guy actually. Read more on the Big O.com. Juz jookin. I like old Roy.
8. No it’s full. But recently it let go of a few mods, which has made the place a little easier to live in.
9. Only Aliens I know of is the hardware we import from the USA – Alien RFID systems
10. Got me on number ten Phil. were you on drugs when you asked this question. If so can I have some to help understand the question.
Are you now up for Dasha’s top ten?
Cheers
