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Thoroughlyentertaining stuff Paul.  Our Oz cousins were wicked!

Reverbeffect

Great stuff once again. Thanks everso for going to so much trouble in cleaning up the scratches and playing 'Goodbye Ladybird' it was wonderful to hear that again and, yeah, it would be top if Roy were to release it in some form or another. With regards to the snippet of 'Che' on Stormcock I asked Roy about that when I interviewed him back in August 1994: DB: On 'Stormcock', between 'One Man Rock 'n Roll Band' and 'Me and My Woman' there's a snippet from 'CHE' off 'Valentine', released 3 years later. I've often wondered why. Is it some kind of future echo? RH: YEAH, that was what it was intended to be...I don't think you need...NEXT! (Laughs) TTFN Dave

I'm working my way through these, having only recently joined the community.  I, too, enjoyed hearing "Cherishing the Lonesome " again - "Bullinamingvase" wasn't  one of my favourite albums, so I haven't heard "Cherishing" or "These last days" in years.

Enjoyed Nick's recollections, and his enthusisam for "TLP". A parallel struck me with Dylan's "Hard Rain" where he said that because of the threat of nuclear war, every line was the first line of a song he didn't think he'd live to write.  Although the "Lifemask" sleeve has Roy describing how he wrote it in a one-er while tripping, it has the feel of each line having so much crammed into each image that it could sprout a whole song (especially in the context of a life-threatening disease). 

After I bought "Lifemask", I bought that book "What Happened In History" by V. Gordon Child on the strength of Roy dedicating TLP to him - but I still haven't got round to reading it!

But my favourite bit in the whole Podcast was Adam's inspired imitation of Yer Man.  Spot-on - so good it made me laugh out loud.  It reminded me of a very odd thing in "Punch" in the very early 70's - the only other time I've seen Roy parodied.  There was a two page feature of "Rock Music stereotypes" or something, by the very famous (then) cartoonist Michael Heath.  One of the characters had long blond hair and an acoustic guitar and was saying something along the lines of "this is a song...er,it will be a song when I start playing it, man.."etc "., i.e. just like Roy in full-on "as much as anybody can be meant to be saying anything"  pre-"I Hate The White Man" ramble mode.  At the time it amazed me and my friends that anyone contributing to"Punch" (establishment humour for doctors' waiting rooms and school libraries, which was where we found it) would have known enough about Roy to satirise him (we, of course, improvised stoned Roy-type rambles at every opportunity as an alternative to reciting chunks of Monty Python.

Alan Jones

thank you mr. davidson.

haven`t heard all the podcasts yet, but i really love this one. because of the one man rock`n roll band tune.. it is really interesting to listening the podcast, since i don`t really know roy harpers music that vell yet.

keep up the good work!

erik