[Music] Possibly the best intro ever. Released 44 years ago today.

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Cult heroes in Manchester. They’ll be playing two gigs there the week before Christmas and I’ll be there.

One of my special favourites, from back in the day. Mrs T took me to a surprise gig (actually Chameleons, not Vox) in Oxford a few years back. The famous concert vid from 81/82 has my little brother clearly visible in the mosh pit. The fan and the bellows.

Top taste, el pres

 

[Sid in the Sharknado]

Cult heroes in Manchester. They’ll be playing two gigs there the week before Christmas and I’ll be there.

Something I both haven't heard before, and that I actually like.



Take that, people who claim this whole thread is a ditch of self satisfied ***.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

This is not a good time for psychedelic drugs

Listent to the intro and take the ride.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j44lZ-JQS0k

(oh yes it ****ing is)

Never turn your back on a drug.

Especially when it's waving a razor-sharp hunting knife in your eye.

 

[Nitram]

 

[Nitram]

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Good bit of foraging! They did quite a few Peel sessions like this, and I found them, err, interesting - yes, but interesting in a good way.

I went out and bought an album (the album, first album? - whatever) and they'd added loads of stuff. Can't remember what - guitar? Keyboards? Maybe a real vocalist too. It was pants - very disappointing! Noce to hear the real thing again after the best part of fifty years!

You bought the second album. The second album is shit. Vocals . The first album is silky loveliness.

 

[Nitram]

 

[BadFish]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELKVW8HiUTE

 

[Nitram]

 

[Surf's Up]

My God, 13 pages and no Iggy Iggy is the ultimate intro-meister:

https://youtu.be/jQvUBf5l7Vw

 

[Surf's Up]

https://youtu.be/B11SAcdNXZA

 

[Sid in the Sharknado]

 

[Surf's Up]

https://youtu.be/0A9binTPMKU

 

[Surf's Up]

https://youtu.be/-HSHuXusJvQ

 

[Nitram]

 

[Nitram]

Don’t know if you are aware of this band and it’s family connections to the originals but well worth seeing if you get a chance. Great gig.

https://www.brightonandhovenews.org...am-50th-anniversary-tour-rolls-into-brighton/

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

 

[Sid in the Sharknado]

Don’t know if you are aware of this band and it’s family connections to the originals but well worth seeing if you get a chance. Great gig.

https://www.brightonandhovenews.org...am-50th-anniversary-tour-rolls-into-brighton/

Cream were somehow my first true band love, and White Room and a few of their other songs mean something to me well beyond anything I can adequately explain or justify.

I saw them at the Brudenell Social Club in Leeds about 18 months ago (it might have been my last gig before lockdown, come to think of it). Really good night, there was real sense of warmth and goodwill for the music and the band that I don't think I've ever quite come across anywhere else.

Obviously there's no comparison to the originals (I gather their gigs largely consisted of staggering on stage and playing the first songs that came into their head in whatever order they occurred), but it felt like something like Cream, rather than just some people playing the material well.

Kofi in particular is really properly good.

 

[Insel affe]

https://youtu.be/lj0cI3XidFo

 

[marlowe]

This is what an intro should sound like... attention grabbing, short, direct and to the point and doesn't over egg the pudding, segueing seemlessly into the melody and first verse...

https://youtu.be/CiKsJqYmvGM