OFF: Bee Gees?

[Chris Warburton]

As usual (esp. at weekends) timelag leaves me behind

At 23:42 17/07/99 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 7/17/99 2:43:37 PM, jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK
writes:
>
><<> 30-some odd years ago, there would these boxes of, like, 20 cutout
singles
>> for $1.98, and amongst the dross* on one occasion was "any christian
>> lion-hearted man will show you" by the pre-disco bros. gibb.
>
>        Sudden echoes in my mind produced, "Any Major Dude Will Tell You",
>which has got to be better than Bee Gees, even before disco. Hasn't it?
>Yours,
>        Jon

Hell of a conceptual leap, but I guess it scans similarly...

>=====
>i dinna say naught to suggest the BG'S tune was any good, mind yiz, just that
>it showed up in me head after being awake for 30 hours (grin)
>
And even I'm awed by the capacity for music trivia on display here...
>
>and i do believe the song that appeared in yr own head played off of t'other,
>at least in  title....t'other being one of several drippy late '60s BG songs
>they were so fond of doing at that time; not quite as drippy as "holiday"
>though, which i tink was the a-side.
>
I think I'm relieved to be completely unfamiliar with this stuff, though I
did once watch "Cucumber Castle", but only to see the live footage of Blind
Faith!!!!!
>======
><<P.S. ObPseudoHW: the band in question took their name from a book by
>William Burroughs, who owned an orgone accumulator. So don't you be
>accusing me of irrelevance :-)>>
>======
>burroughs had an orgone accumulator? what does one do w/it? stick one's head
>in it? no, i'm not joking, isnt that how such a device is utilized?
>
Sit in it if you make a full size one.  The other thing (apparently) is to
keep your stash in one to "potentiate" it.  Maybe even better if you make
it pyramid shaped and put it at the focus!?!?!?!
>
>but being as i knows the band in question, the book in question, and the
>namesake implement in question (grin), we can see who else amongst us does,
>and many likely do.
>
Well, I'm a bit of a "Nightfly" and I'm "never going back to my old
school", "I've never met Napoleon, but I plan to do some time". When I'm
done "Reelin' in the years" "I'll go back, Jack, do it again" etc. etc...

ChrisW
With a Goodbye Look unitil I see you at the Teahouse On The Tracks