Cold Ale - The Blokes' Thread!

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Paul, the clown is quite unsettling.
For a novelty act, I suggest we run back to the bar and get Evelyn Dall and her act to come on out.
Parker's had her billed for roughly 70 years now and still brings the house down.

Here she is performing at the bar a few years back.
Note: you can spot Parker at exactly 2:30 with Sounds and ?? standing in front of the bar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlNZF...eature=related

Sancho

I'll have my son join us with his violin, the only problem being, he's classically trained and this hoe down sounds like it requires a fiddle.



I'll grab the Yma Sumac and Arthur Lyman albums.
They are best at 3:33 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdK-9NNSqME




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[MarkBastable]

As an aside, I have never seen the attraction of any aspect of a circus. Just don't get it.

[prendrelemick]

At a distance, or as an abstract concept, I don't like circuses much either. But when I took the Grand kids to the Moscow State Circus, It was fantastic, I was ooing and ahhing all the way through, The Strongman act was this old geezer who gave a master class in how to work an audience, he was brilliant, and the clowns, who decided they were creepy? I haven't laughed so hard for years.

[Hawkman]

Sancho: So, you think we need a Bassist? No Problem, I can fill in after I've finished pickin' Fireball Mail. Of course, if you want me to entertain you with Foggy Mountain Breakdown or Man of Constant Sorrow I'll have to put it down again.

The Hawk's string section...



As for the six-string; I hope you like The Irish Rover lol.

I've also got a complete set of penny whistles so if you need a little trilling I can pipe a jig or two.

Atheist: Yup, the wheels of a good jam are definitely better for a little oiling. I'll bring a crate of meths.

[Sancho]

^Sweet. So far we've got a couple of banjos, an electric bass, a uke', a fiddle (with a classically trained violinist), some guitars, a keyboard (with fur balls), and Duane's kazoo. I can bring a gourd-shaped mandolin that I acquired somewhere along the line.

Hmmm, what to do about the rhythm section. By the way, Hawk, what is that thing on your bookshelf? It looks kinda like a hand grenade - and we could use a few percussion instruments.

Now all we need is a name for the band. Something badass, but in a clever sort of way. Not too clever though, or people will figure we're just a bunch of wise guys.

Ideas?

[Hawkman]

Yes, it is indeed a hand grenade. Unfortunately I've only got the one so if we wish to use it musically we'll have to save it for the big finale as for the band name, how about The Frag 'em Boys? Kind of goes with the ornament

[SilentMute]

@soundsofmusic--We should keep the picture of Lennon's car. We can show it to Selena. No matter how bad of a job I do on her clear coat, she is not going to look like that.

@MarkBastable and prendelmick--Well, I can only speak from personal experience as to why I like circuses like Cirque de Soleil. As a kid, I was always sickly and not very physically graceful. I always liked to imagine I could do these physical feats. I'm also scared of heights, and so I was impressed by trapeze artists--and I liked to imagine myself fearlessly swinging like they did.

[Calidore]

Yes, it is indeed a hand grenade. Unfortunately I've only got the one so if we wish to use it musically we'll have to save it for the big finale as for the band name, how about The Frag 'em Boys? Kind of goes with the ornament

A hand grenade? I thought this was supposed to be a manly party. Tchaikovsky used cannons.

[Sancho]

Good point, Calidore. But you forget, we've got Gill coming in from Texas with truckload of high-grade fireworks that'll make Tchaikovsky's cannon fire sound like a cap gun.

The Frag 'Em Boys. I like it. Here are a couple other ideas:

Grenades-N-Roses

It's getting warm around here and Duane (the kazoo player) is a big ole, sweaty fella. How about:

The Sweat Grenades

[Sancho]

Sergeant Slaughter and the Frag-Time Fellows

Fragmentation Nation

>>We may not be on key, but we're close, and with hand grenades - close counts.

[Hawkman]

A hand grenade? I thought this was supposed to be a manly party. Tchaikovsky used cannons.

Here's a little factoid for you, Just after the war, that'd be WWII, a British recording of the 1812 overture actually forsook cannon in favour of a .303 rifle fired into a dustbin and slowed down to 16 RPM. Sad but true

Great suggestions there Sancho, I'm rather taken with Fragmentation Nation Can't use Slaughter as it's perilously close to breach of copyright, on account of one of the characters in my latest short being called Slaughterman. 'Hatchet' Harry Slaughterman, aka Barnabus, Dean of Sleazeby Cathedral.

[prendrelemick]

Can you tune handgrenades?

[Hawkman]

Yes, but only once!

[MarkBastable]

Here's a little factoid for you, Just after the war, that'd be WWII, a British recording of the 1812 overture actually forsook cannon in favour of a .303 rifle fired into a dustbin and slowed down to 16 RPM. Sad but true.

What's sad about that?

[Hawkman]

Cheap + Artificial = Sad

QED

I'm all for heavy artillery.