On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 08:16:18PM +0000, mike wilson wrote:
> John Francis wrote:
> >On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 02:59:28PM +0000, mike wilson wrote:
> >
> >>>From: Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>>Date: 2006/02/09 Thu PM 02:20:45 GMT
> >>>To: [email protected]
> >>>Subject: Re: OT The GUI grows up
> >>>
> >>>Bob Shell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Bob (former Theramin player)
> >>>
> >>>Now *there's* a title you don't see very often!
> >>>
> >>>Side note: If anyone remembers the late, great Bonzo Dog Band, they used
> >>>to perform with an instrument they called the Electric Leg. It was a
> >>>theramin built into the leg of an old department store mannequin.
> >>
> >>And a trouser press.
> >
> >
> >And a plastic funnel at the end of a hosepipe ...
> >
> >I saw the Bonzo Dog perform Urban Spaceman (and other songs of that era)
> >in a small venue (basically a pub/club).
> >
> >The Electric Leg got into the name of a band (Roger Ruskin Spear and his
> >Giant Electric Leg, if memory serves), and the trouser press was used as
> >the name of a track (and was mentioned in the vocals).
> >
> >One thing I hadn't realised, until I heard the original a few years ago,
> >was just how good a copy of the '20s/'30s songs they had managed on tracks
> >like "Mr & Mrs Mickey Mouse".
> >
>
> They started as a trad jazz band with a twist. Contemporaries of the
> Alberts and Temperance Seven. I saw the Bonzos, Scaffold and three of
> the Liverpool poets at one event. I think I'm still in recovery.
Ah, yes. Roger McGough.
Come live with me, and be my love - I keep a flat for mating.
There's half an hour before the bus. Shall we do it while we're waiting?
I saw him on a few occasions - in the mid '70s I was working in Manchester,
but spending most of my weekends with friends in Liverpool, so I saw quite
a bit of the Liverpool club & pub scene. We even went to the cavern once
or twice - long after the Beatles had left, but still while it was at the
original site (later on it moved across the road to bigger premises).
