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onomatopoeia
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Er....ahhhh...hmmmm....
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I always wondered if that was urban legend. One Latin professor I had back in the school days told me it was derived from a Latin word used by the Romans. Or maybe snopes got it wrong...what the fuck do they know? :wink2:
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Most people who think Fuck is derived from For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge base their opinion on the title of the 1991 Van Halen album of the same name.
Educated people had stopped listening to Van Halen long before that. I saw them in July, 1980, when they still had something meaningful to say.
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Ignorant little twit, ain't ya?
A decade before than Van Halen album, April Wine had a so-so song called "If You See Kay", the video had a hawt chick.
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April Wine at the London Gardens was the first concert I ever went to. Saw them several times - really boring concerts. :biggrin2:
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April Wine were a Montreal band. I knew of them when they had a #2 Canadian hit single with You Could Have Been a Lady in 1971, and they were still playing high school dance gigs, (I wasn't in high school yet, at the time).
I have an .mp3 of that song in 320 kbits/sec, and also included it on a 72 song, three cassette mixed tape of AM pop sons from 1970-74, that I made in 1989, and circulated to friends. It was one of the five songs I didn't have on vinyl, so a friend of mine who had it on vinyl made a tape for me of the five I didn't have, and I did tape to tape dubbing.
I saw April Wine twice, July, 1977 at La Ronde in Montreal, and May, 1980 at the Montreal Forum. At La Ronde, the opening act was Andy Gibb, younger brother of the Bee Gees, who had a couple of #1 Billboard hits that year, and died very young.
His set was good, but not well received; the 'kicker' above the headline in the newspaper concert review was Andy Gibb Warms Up Hecklers.
Montreal audiences were a tough sell, but very appreciative of above average performance. Many bands played better in Montreal than in other cities, for that reason, sometime starting tours there, to see if the show needed polish, or not.
Example: David Bowie's Diamond Dogs tour in June, 1974 started there. I was too young to go, but a good friend of mine wasn't, and he told me all about it. Bowie had an elaborate stage and some mechanical effects that he used in that show, but scrapped them after five gigs. One was him sitting on a large mechanical hand, that reached out into and above the audience, while performing Space Oddity. He substituted a different song in that part of the set, after the fist five shows.
In 1980, the opening act was Johnny Winter. I saw Johnny's show, but missed most of April Wine. I'd come in to Montreal from College, with a few friends.
Some guys on the highway had a sign in the window that said "Honk if you like April Wine", so my friend driving honked, the driver of other car sped up, then pulled over to the shoulder of the highway, and flicked his his back tail lights.
We pulled over, and we all got out of the car. The guys in the other car then shared their best weed with us, standing behind the cars, on the side of the highway, while other cars drove past.
We didn't know them; we were just the guys who honked. That was enough to make friends, in those days, and in Quebec.
It was an unusually warm day, I hadn't eaten, and I was very high. I started to feel light headed, early in the April Wine set, and went to the side exit, where the temperature was cooler. I fainted in the hall way, and spent the rest of the show in the 'waiting area', receiving orange juice and cookies, but I wasn't allowed to leave, just like at a 60's/ 70's hippy band concert. I'd only consumed weed, and would have been OK, if I'd eaten and taken fluids before the show, or if it hadn't been so hot in the arena floor area.
I'm out for the afternoon. I have to teach computer skills to a very intelligent young man, with severe schizophrenia. He must be accompanied from the hospital by a nurse. His lesson with me is a highlight of his week, so I don't want to be late getting there.
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I never did understand the fascination with April Wine. Not one of their albums stood out for me, and none of their songs were great. I saw them a few times, but always was disappointed.
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April Wine in 1977 was one of the worst concerts I ever saw, not because they were bad, but because I didn't pay money to see shit bands in concert.
At the bottom of the list was Pink Floyd, July, 1977 at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal, Animals album tour. About half way through, they started to play Pigs on the Wing.
The crowd started to cheer, and Dave Gilmour stopped playing, and said "Look, would you all shut the fuck up? We're here to play our songs, then we're going to leave", (an exact quote).
The cartoons on the screen behind the stage were cool, especially the one for Welcome to the Machine, and I liked the huge helium filled balloons, but we left during the start of the encores, to avoid traffic congestion, so I heard, but didn't see, them perform Money.
The best concerts I ever saw, in no particular order:
David Bowie, February, 1976 on the Station to Station tour - the 'warm up act' was Luis Buñuel's 1929 surrealist film Un Chien Andalou,
Bowie again in May, 1978 on the Heroes tour, both Montreal Forum.
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, November, 1978 on the Darkness on the Edge of Town tour, Montreal Forum 'Concert Bowl', (stage at center ice, no seats behind the stage).
The Clash, September, 1979 at Theatre St Denis, Montreal, with The B Girls and The Undertones, with Lee "Scratch" Perry DJing between sets, Give 'em Enough Rope tour.
Miles Davis at Theatre St Denis, July, 1983.
Tom Waits at Massey Hall, October, 1987, on the Frank's Wild Years tour.
Ramones, August, 1979, promoting the Rock 'N' Roll High School movie.
Steve Earle solo acoustic at the Diamond Club, 1987,(?).
Jonathan Richman solo at The Rivoli, 1984 or 85, Rockin' and Romance tour.
Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper at The Rivoli, 1987, Frenzy tour.
Rancid in November or December, 1994 at Kool Haus, or whatever it was called then, ...and Out Come the Wolves tour.
Queen and Thin Lizzy, January, 1977, A Day at the Races/ Johnny the Fox tour, Montreal Forum.
Little Steven & The Disciples of Soul at Le Spectrum, February, 1983, on the Men Without Women tour.
And my first show at a night club, Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes on the Hearts of Stone tour, El Casino, Montreal, across the street from Place des Arts, next door to The Rising Sun, December 18, 1978.
Of all of them, my personal favorite was the Southside Johnny club gig. It was broadcast on CHOM-FM in Montreal, two nights later. a guy whom I didn't know at the time taped the show from radio, and made a cassette copy for me, in 1981, and it was later digitalized to CD, by some woman named 'Deb', in New Jersey, from my tape, and she sent me a few CDs of other SJ&TAB shows, when she returned the tape.
Southside Johnny and The Asbury Jukes had finished their encore set, with a ten minute version of the Lloyd Price song Stagger Lee, and said good night.
The crowd wouldn't stop making noise, and literally half an hour later, they came back out on stage, and did Sam and Dave's You Don't Know Like I Know, Johnny singing in a bath robe, from a back stage shower. Then they left, and everyone in the crowd, did, too.
$5.50 for tickets, on a night when the daytime temperature had been -30 degrees. 400 people really got their money's worth, and I was one of them. I can still remember it like it was yesterday, but I needed the tape, to put the pieces together. I bought my ticket the same afternoon as the show
So, April Wine was really shitty, compared to those ones.
Thin Lizzy were better than Queen, even though Queen were in form. That's part of the reason Queen never had an opening act on their subsequent tours.
Time for my basketball fix.
At the bottom of the list was Pink Floyd, July, 1977 at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal, Animals album tour. About half way through, they started to play Pigs on the Wing.
The crowd started to cheer, and Dave Gilmour stopped playing, and said "Look, would you all shut the fuck up? We're here to play our songs, then we're going to leave", (an exact quote).
The cartoons on the screen behind the stage were cool, especially the one for Welcome to the Machine, and I liked the huge helium filled balloons, but we left during the start of the encores, to avoid traffic congestion, so I heard, but didn't see, them perform Money.
The best concerts I ever saw, in no particular order:
David Bowie, February, 1976 on the Station to Station tour - the 'warm up act' was Luis Buñuel's 1929 surrealist film Un Chien Andalou,
Bowie again in May, 1978 on the Heroes tour, both Montreal Forum.
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, November, 1978 on the Darkness on the Edge of Town tour, Montreal Forum 'Concert Bowl', (stage at center ice, no seats behind the stage).
The Clash, September, 1979 at Theatre St Denis, Montreal, with The B Girls and The Undertones, with Lee "Scratch" Perry DJing between sets, Give 'em Enough Rope tour.
Miles Davis at Theatre St Denis, July, 1983.
Tom Waits at Massey Hall, October, 1987, on the Frank's Wild Years tour.
Ramones, August, 1979, promoting the Rock 'N' Roll High School movie.
Steve Earle solo acoustic at the Diamond Club, 1987,(?).
Jonathan Richman solo at The Rivoli, 1984 or 85, Rockin' and Romance tour.
Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper at The Rivoli, 1987, Frenzy tour.
Rancid in November or December, 1994 at Kool Haus, or whatever it was called then, ...and Out Come the Wolves tour.
Queen and Thin Lizzy, January, 1977, A Day at the Races/ Johnny the Fox tour, Montreal Forum.
Little Steven & The Disciples of Soul at Le Spectrum, February, 1983, on the Men Without Women tour.
And my first show at a night club, Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes on the Hearts of Stone tour, El Casino, Montreal, across the street from Place des Arts, next door to The Rising Sun, December 18, 1978.
Of all of them, my personal favorite was the Southside Johnny club gig. It was broadcast on CHOM-FM in Montreal, two nights later. a guy whom I didn't know at the time taped the show from radio, and made a cassette copy for me, in 1981, and it was later digitalized to CD, by some woman named 'Deb', in New Jersey, from my tape, and she sent me a few CDs of other SJ&TAB shows, when she returned the tape.
Southside Johnny and The Asbury Jukes had finished their encore set, with a ten minute version of the Lloyd Price song Stagger Lee, and said good night.
The crowd wouldn't stop making noise, and literally half an hour later, they came back out on stage, and did Sam and Dave's You Don't Know Like I Know, Johnny singing in a bath robe, from a back stage shower. Then they left, and everyone in the crowd, did, too.
$5.50 for tickets, on a night when the daytime temperature had been -30 degrees. 400 people really got their money's worth, and I was one of them. I can still remember it like it was yesterday, but I needed the tape, to put the pieces together. I bought my ticket the same afternoon as the show
So, April Wine was really shitty, compared to those ones.
Thin Lizzy were better than Queen, even though Queen were in form. That's part of the reason Queen never had an opening act on their subsequent tours.
Time for my basketball fix.
