This Ones For Rridgely....

...who I do believe is an Oasis fan.

My son has been a diehard fan of Oasis since they first hit the public eye.

He has travelled thousands of miles over the years to see their live concerts.

A while back, when they were playing Tyneside, my 24 year old daughter was pampering herself with a friend in the spa of a very exclusive and expensive hotel here on the N.E. coast called Seaham Hall.

Prior to their session in the spa, they were sitting in the lounge having coffee, when who should swagger in wearing a red leather coat and a white sun hat.

Yep, you`ve guessed, Liam Gallagher. Wearing exactly the outfit we`ve all seen him wearing on stage.

Lyndsey and her friend acted as cool as they could be, and they sat chatting for an hour or so about things like birthdays and family get togethers etc., which he said was something he missed.

Noel came in and joined in the conversation for a while, and they were both invited to the hotel that night for the after gig party.

My daughter and her friend, after picking their jaws up off the floor, both politely declined, and that was about it.

When she told my son about this encounter, you can imagine his reaction. He`s spent a fortune and a good part of his life, and never gotten any closer than being a face in a seething crowd of faces, and here she is sitting having Sunday afternoon tea with them.

And the one thing he was really miffed about ?

She never even got their autographs because she thought it would be uncool to ask. How cool is that ?

Regards

Cool story. I love hearing stuff like this. :)

I just recently started liking them this last year during the summer. I'm in the US, and while they were big with their second album, they kind of died out after that. For the longest time I wrote them off as being just a pop rock band but then I really started to listen and I liked what I heard. :D They are arrogant, rude, and they thought they were the greatest band in the world. :D(wrongly so, but they are still cool as hell.) If anyone hasn't ever actually heard any of their music besides champagne supernova(which by the way I cant stand. That song is why I dismissed them for so long.) you must check out don't look back in anger, go let it out, roll with it, cigarettes and alcohol, and bascially their first two albums. :D (standing on the shoulder of giants is cool too.)

Oh and if anyone wants to hear some truely great rock and roll interview search out some from liam and noel and youtube. They are funny as hell. :lol:

For the last few months I've been trying to switch bands ever month or two. I just haven't found a new sig or gotten anyone to make me one yet. :D (so far I've had the stones, U2, a sig with my favorite front men (axl rose, steven tyler, mick jagger).) I'm either going to go with led zeppelin or maybe Springsteen next. B)

You and my son seem to have the same taste in bands.

He`s followed U2 all over Europe. The Zooropa, (or was it Zoo-TV ?) gig they did in Hamburg years ago was one of the most amazing things he`d ever seen.

Especially that amazing silhouetted stagger onto the stage at the start of the show. Also went to the Dublin "home coming" concert.

I must admit I`ve got most of their albums from Joshua Tree onwards. Amazing voice that guy has.

He is still a fan of Guns`n Roses, although their day has long gone. Saw them in Gateshead when they only half filled the stadium, and critics were saying they didn`t really have enough new songs to do stadium gigs.

That was a long time ago, and I can`t understand how Axel Rose is still walking.

At the moment, I`m really into Singer/Song Writers. Damien Rice type of thing.

Two really good Albums are "Magpie" by Stephen Fretwell, and "The Animal Years" by a guy called Josh Ritter.

While searching around the web I found Josh Ritter at two different sites.

http://www.fabchannel.com/. Worth a visit if you have`nt seen it, although Josh Ritters time has expired on there.

and

http://music.download.com/joshritter/3600-...ing_song_artist

I recorded this album by using digital out on my pc, through my minidisk player and onto hard drive via line-in using AudioGrabber. http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/

Wouldn`t mind a tool to directly grab downstreaming music without having to do that. (Free one of course)

I could talk all day about music. One of the biggest passions of my life.

About your new sig; why not try this. :lol:

Regards

I saw U2 during the vertigo tour in november 05. They are one of the few bands that I've seen that sound just as good live as they do on a studio recorded cd. They are amazing! I can still look back on that night and rememeber getting goose bumps while they were doing I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For. The whole arena was singing along and it was awesome. :D (I wasn't a big fan of their last album but they mostly did their older songs, so I was happy. :) )

Guns N' Roses are supposedly putting out a new album in March. Although I've heard that before, so we'll see how it goes. <_<

For me they could have been the greatest band of all time, but like so many others they blew it. :(

Lately I've been having a lot of problems finding new stuff that I like. Right now I've been listening to lots of Paul McCartneys solo stuff and his Wings albums. Also I've been listen to Queen and Bob Dylan a lot too. :D

I'll check out those link, thanks. :D

Pretty cool story I have to say. :)

Red coat, white hat? Damn, no style. :D

Girls always have the lucky, they would never invited a guy.

I wonder if any of you guys like Johnny Cash.

You can hear his last album "Cash" (American V) in its entirety here: http://music.download.com/3607-5_32-0.html...sh&tag=srch

Really emotional experience listening to this, especially if you read this first.

LOS ANGELES, CA -- MONDAY, May 1, 2006 -- In the months leading up to his passing on September 12, 2003, JOHNNY CASH had been recording new material with producer Rick Rubin. On July 4, 2006, American V: A Hundred Highways the all-new Johnny Cash album taken from those sessions, will be released on the American Recordings label through Lost Highway. It will include the last song Cash ever wrote.

The songs that comprise American V: A Hundred Highways are as eclectic an assortment as any on the previous albums in the American series: Help Me,

a poignant plea to God, the hauntingly beautiful ballad "If You Could Read My Mind," "God's Gonna Cut You Down," a traditional spiritual, the touching "Love's Been Good To Me," the heartrending "On The Evening Train," and "Further On (Up the Road)" are among the tracks on the new album.

Songwriters for the tracks run the gamut from Hank Williams to Rod McKuen to Bruce Springsteen.

In addition, two original Cash compositions are featured, "Like the 309" and "I Came to Believe." "Like the 309" is the last song Cash wrote and, like his first recorded single, 1955's "Hey Porter," is a song that incorporates one of his favorite settings, trains: "Everybody take a look/See I'm doin' fine/Then load my box/On the 309." "I Came to Believe" is a song he wrote and originally recorded earlier in his career, and addresses the pain of addiction and connecting to a higher power.

"I think that American V may be my favorite of all of the albums in the American series," said Rubin. "It's different from the others, it has a much different character. I think that this is as strong an album as Johnny ever made."

The months following the May, 2004 passing of his wife June Carter Cash, were among the most physically and emotionally painful times in Cash's life, but keeping focused on the recording of American V: A Hundred Highways proved to be his salvation. Rubin remembers, "Johnny said that recording was his main reason for being alive, and I think it was the only thing that kept him going, the only thing he had to look forward to."

Cash and Rubin began recording the songs that would find their way onto American V: A Hundred Highways in 2002, specifically on the day after they finished American IV: The Man Comes Around which was released that November. Johnny feared that American IV might be his last release, so Rubin suggested that he immediately begin writing and recording new material. Over the next eight months, songs were cut at Rubin's Los Angeles studio and in Nashville at Johnny's main home and at his fabled cabin located across the road. Due to Cash's frail health, Rubin arranged for an engineer and guitar players to always be on call for the days that Cash felt strong enough to work.

"He always wanted to work," said Rubin. "Every morning when he'd wake up, he would call the engineer and tell him if he was physically up to working that day. Our main concern was to get a great vocal performance. Johnny would record a song, send it to me and I would build a new track up under it. In the past, at the end of this process, he'd come to L.A. And we'd go through everything together, he would re-record any vocal bits that needed re-recording. But this time, we didn't have that opportunity."

Last year, Rubin began going through these final recordings. He admitted, "I kind of dreaded doing it, after Johnny passed, going back and listening to it...it was difficult.

"With all of the albums Johnny and I made together, our goal was for each one to be the best it could possibly be, and that remained the case with American V," Rick explained. Eventually, Cash's long-time engineer David "Fergie" Ferguson, Heartbreakers Mike Campbell (guitars) and Benmont Tench (keyboards), and Smokey Hormel (guitars), all of whom had worked on previous albums in the American series, along with Matt Sweeney (guitars) and Johnny Polonsky (guitars) went into the studio.

"We felt Johnny's presence during the whole process through to the end," said Rubin. "It felt like he was directing the proceedings, and I know that the musicians all felt that as well. Almost all of the songs were cut solely to Johnny's original vocal tracks, the musicians all keyed off his voice and were playing to him, supporting the emotion of his performance.

More than once, Fergie and I would look at each other and say 'Johnny would love this,' because it was so good and so different from anything we'd done before, we knew he would be excited by what was happening."

It was decided to wait to release American V: A Hundred Highways until the recent Cash hubbub had run its course. What separates this album from the re-packages, compilations, movie soundtracks and everything else that has surfaced since Johnny's passing is, according to Rubin, "These songs are Johnny's final statement. They are the truest reflection of the music that was central to his life at the time. This is the music that Johnny wanted us to hear."

Nothing I can add to that guys,

Regards

I must admit I never have listened to a full Johnny Cash song. :D

I never really could get into country music. :unsure: