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Post by MikeMusic on May 10, 2019 11:20:07 GMT
Seriously good band of musicians.
Well worth another listen or discover if you haven't heard them.
Not just Viv Stanshall and Neil Innes.
Fine musicians having a great time and entertaining
Well made too. The system delivering more detail and separation of instruments and vocals never heard before
I always thought
I left my heart in San Francisco
was the intro everyone used to
Look out there's a monster coming
Girlfriend of the time was well teed off when I burst out laughing and shouted
"He's going to sing the monster song !"
when Tony Bennett started singing it on TV.
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Post by petea on May 10, 2019 11:55:25 GMT
A good prompt, Mike. I haven't listened to them for ages and I will did something out. I also used to like Mr Stanshall's solo stuff as well, especially "Teddy Boys Don't Knit". Some fine vomiting on one of the choruses!
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Post by MikeMusic on May 10, 2019 12:08:13 GMT
Are you old enough to have rushed home from school to watch
Do not adjust your set ?
Men opening umbrellas ahead
is wonderful
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Post by petea on May 10, 2019 12:28:51 GMT
I do remember it although not very clearly - I guess I would have been about 10 - I rember Michael Bentine's Potty Time better with the Bonzo's performing at the end on various 'instruments'. One of my early 'animations' was footsteps in sand!
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Post by Slinger on May 10, 2019 12:40:42 GMT
Are you old enough to have rushed home from school to watch Do not adjust your set ? Men opening umbrellas ahead is wonderful I loved show. Don't forget Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin were also on it, and John Cleese and Graham Chapman were both fans. Towards the end Terry Gilliam joined the team, too. It was, almost singlehandedly, responsible for Monty Python. |
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Post by MikeMusic on May 10, 2019 12:45:02 GMT
Agreed
The whole programme was wunnerful
You remember of course
Mrs Black's Horrible Handbag
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Post by zippy on May 10, 2019 13:21:13 GMT
Saw the BDDDB live, back in the 1960..somethings.
Not quite the same listening to recordings...
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Post by MikeMusic on May 10, 2019 17:43:35 GMT
Saw them live at Lewes festival, late 60s
Great
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Post by MikeMusic on May 11, 2019 10:26:36 GMT
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Post by MikeMusic on May 11, 2019 11:07:34 GMT
The Albums are all great for me.
At least funny and hilarious in places.
Superb musicianship and well made. Worth listening to for that alone
Cornology is a 3 CD collection of albums up to 1992, the last reformation not included
Reissues of individual albums give lots of bonus tracks including The Craig Torso show
The Doughnut in Granny's greenhouse second album
Tadpoles 3rd
Keynsham 4th
Let's Make Up and Be Friendly 5th
Need to listen to Pour l'Amour des Chiens myself again
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Post by MikeMusic on May 11, 2019 13:39:54 GMT
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Post by MikeMusic on May 11, 2019 15:46:11 GMT
A good idea of how mad they were
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Post by MikeMusic on Mar 4, 2020 16:17:44 GMT
There are more Various different compilations which should get you interested enough to buy all their albums ! Hugh Terry gives good advice on AllmusicThe Bonzos always had three basic musical strands: Neil Innes' commercial-sounding songs (I'm the Urban Spaceman, Mr Apollo), Vivian Stanshall's parody vintage crooner (Canyons of Your Mind, Jollity Farm) and a third category that defies categorization (!) but could be roughly defined as off-the-wall freak-outs (We Are Normal, The Intro & The Outro). They were ahead of their time, of course, in the sense that the music business wasn't properly equipped to handle them; but they were also OF their time, since it's hard to see any other place in history where they could have popped up, in their wonderfully anarchic way, than in the art-rock hothouse of 1960s English music culture that also produced the Beatles, Kinks, Small Faces et al. All the Bonzos' records bear repeated listening, including 1972's Let's Make Up & Be Friendly, their abortive attempt at a reunion. The definitive collection remains the United Artists double LP The History of the Bonzos, but this neatly compiled release from mid-1970 serves as an excellent primer. In fact it's slightly stronger than The Beast of the Bonzos, released around the same time, with more original sequencing – Kama-Sutra leads into I'm Bored and Trouser Press follows Shirt! Naturally. Jollity Farm, Kama-Sutra, Tent, You Done My Brain In, Can Blue Men Sing the Whites, I'm Bored, Shirt, Mr Slater's Parrot, Mickey's Son & Daughter and The Sound of Music here replace Tubas In The Moonlight, Quiet Talks & Summer Walks, Rhinocratic Oaths, I Left My Heart In San Francisco, Sport (The Odd Boy), Mr Apollo, We Are Normal, Hello Mabel and Piggy Bank Love. You pays your money, you takes your choice! ____________ There are also many other compilations. If unsure check with Allmusic and Discogs |
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Post by Slinger on Mar 4, 2020 16:32:48 GMT
...Adolf Hitler - vibes (looking very relaxed), Princess Anne - sousaphone...
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Post by petea on Mar 4, 2020 16:45:44 GMT
Alway been a fan, and also of Mr Stanshall's solo works, eg "Teddy Boys don't Knit". He's also responsible for a couple of my favourite lines / quotes, both from "Sir Henry at Rawlinson End": "{As} English as tuppence" and "If I had all the money I'd spent on drink, {pause for thought} I'd spend it on drink!"
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Post by MikeMusic on Mar 4, 2020 20:02:51 GMT
Another of Viv's
I don't know what I want but I want it now
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