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Re #10. Global Warming............My Ar*e

Well done Bubblewrap.

Never read the papers much, but the BBC & ITV rarely get it right. Last night, Beeb reckoned it would pee down all day, but after a wet mornings shopping , I've been leaf clearing this afternoon. I think the TV companies have pretty presenters so we gaup at them and ignore the weather.

Congrats Lizzie.

Storyline was gripping then Mick?

That's brilliant Ali, I'm still chuckling.

At least by shopping in the week you don't encounter the dreaded "Saturday Worker". They are so surly, slow and uncommunicative .

At least in those days there was no press on your shoulder watching every move. Great players you mention there Lizzie, that's about the time I started watching Forest. Liam O'Kane was one of my favourite players of all time.

I bet that was in Cloughies early days before the fitness / nutritionist / psychology types took over the game.

That's it. Memory failure!

I thought it was on Derby Rd near the old AA office, near the river Leen.

Got a bit hippyish by about 67 - 70 but couldn't embrace all this love thy brother nonsense or live on brown rice and lentils. I loved my beer, wine, steaks, fish & chips, fry-ups and pork pies too much. However I loved cord flares, cheesecloth shirts and moccasins.

The Small Faces were for me the ultimate Mod band. Saw them first at the Sherwood Rooms, brilliant, and at the Stork club I think it was. No one had a voice quite like Stevie's. They came up with some great singles, some of the best pop songs of all time. I never got into the Mod / Rocker thing, I liked items of fashion from both genres. I especially liked frayed Levi's , black T shirt, checked shirt, not tucked in, denim jackets, Wrangler cord jackets, baseball boots or desert boots and my long hair. It was great when groups like the Jeff Beck Band, Family, Fleetwood Mac, Taste / Rory Gall

No, and also it went under tunnels at the south end.

Thanks Stan, this is a horrible subject to discuss and my sympathies go out to Pixie and all others whose lives have been affected by drugs. I've never indulged even though I've been to concerts and Rock Festivals. I always wanted to be in control of my actions. I stopped smoking 25 years ago, and rarely drink since ceasing to go and watch Nottingham Forest several years ago. Cheers.

Stan, sorry to keep pursuing this, but I still think that being weak willed, gullible and impressionable have a lot to do with people starting to take drugs. Let's just return to the music industry. Are you trying to tell me that most members of The Rolling Stones, Cream, Elton John, The Pretenders, The Allman Brothers,Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead and Fleetwood Mac all suffer from the same mental disorder, because I just can't imagine it possible. I have read numerous books about the lives and times of countless musicians from the late 50's until the present day, and in most cases they c

Can they be restored?

Don't try and be funny Stan. This is a serious subject. I was just saying that I'm not convinced that drug addiction is a disease of the brain. Are you trying to tell us that so many people in the music industry are afflicted with the same disorder ?

Baff as compared to Barth

Not convinced!

Good point about prescription drugs Melton. The late great guitarist Rory Gallagher, although a very heavy drinker, survived a liver transplant but died at 48 of complications brought on by a reliance on prescription drugs authorised by several doctors for a multitude of symptoms, some counteracting the effectiveness of others, thereby negating any benefits achieved .

Shameful waste of lives it is too Pixie, just look at the music business as barclaycon has mentioned. It has really pi55ed me off over the years the talent we have lost. Paul Kossoff, Jim Morrisson, Phil Lynott, Brian Jones, Janis Joplin, Keith Moon. The American guitarist Eddie Shaver tried heroin once and it killed him. At the end of the day, nobody is forced to take drugs, they make the decision themselves and everyone these days knows the consequences, so don't even try it once.

Everyone's got a wild streak, it's just that some people keep it suppressed . There is nothing wrong with folk who are a bit freethinking, it shows character and initiative . Look in the mirror and you will see such a person. I admire Harry, he's not had the easiest of upbringings. Please don't have a go at him just because he wants to be normal.

Charles was probably the most moulded, manipulated, pressurised and downtrodden man the civilised world has ever seen. The poor chap has had my sympathy for many years. He's at his happiest now he's finally with Camilla. He was ruled by his domineering old bat of a Grandmother, who didn't even want him thinking for himself . A freethinking playboy he certainly was not!

Hardly.