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Post by beef on Jun 22, 2015 10:51:31 GMT
Just stumbled upon this idea for a thread after stumbling upon this youtube clip - Shock The Monkey from an Italian tv show - not sure who the heck the "band" are and it's clearly mimed (badly) but it seems to be a rare clip from that era and PG is really into his monkey stuff - recommended!
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Post by Zenrider on Jun 23, 2015 9:19:22 GMT
Great idea Beef! That is Peter at his monkeyest best. I keep seeing things about him turn up on the WXRT radio site (local radio for me), which keeps me thinking something is coming, eventually. I'd say at a snails pace, but snails are faster then Peter it would seem..
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Post by Zenrider on Jun 24, 2015 5:07:50 GMT
OK, one of my favorite of his videos, because, perhaps, sometimes my dreams resemble the surrealism of this:
Not PG, but one of my recent favorite videos I just stumbled onto of a favorite author of mine accepting an award last year. Guess I should check up on her more often. Though when I do, I have been happy to find her not only alive, but sharp as ever. Ursula LeGuin:
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Post by beef on Jun 24, 2015 19:13:39 GMT
Funny - I had a dream about PG a couple of nights ago (he is not someone I normally dream about!). I was somehow working on a PG tour and the whole thing was so ridiculously over the top and complicated, that everything was constantly going wrong - PG seemed resigned to this, but everything I said or did seemed to irritate him. . .
And then - really enjoyed the Angela LeGuin speech - I always meant to read her but didn't know where to start. . . fantastic speech which was followed by Daniel Handler - the author of Lemmony Snicket (which I haven't read either) but it suggested a track by The Gothic Archies (one of the many AKAs of Stephin Merritt/Magnetic Fields - I've been a fan for around 20 years - and of which PG covered "Book of Love") because Gothic Archies provided a song for each of The Lemmony Snicket stories. On Ursula's theme of capitalism out of control I chose this one -
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Post by Zenrider on Jun 28, 2015 5:30:05 GMT
Look, Peter with hair on Letterman. I wonder how many times he appeared on Letterman? It was sad to see Letterman retire from late night TV, not that I've been able to watch lately, I'm working... Will miss Letterman and the musicians, many that he introduced to a larger audience for the first time on his show. Hope his replacement keeps that up somehow.
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Post by beef on Jun 28, 2015 19:00:36 GMT
Nice one Zenrider! I used to have hair then too - I remember that era so fondly. . . odd ending!
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Post by Zenrider on Jun 30, 2015 17:42:38 GMT
Am thinking this was taken off of a VHS video tape. Perhaps the end was something the person who posted that recorded over? Now why he/she left that on???
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Post by Zenrider on Dec 6, 2015 6:00:42 GMT
Solsbury Hill 1977
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Post by Zenrider on Mar 7, 2016 4:50:01 GMT
Solsbury Hill for new Disney Finding Dora trailer.
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Post by beef on Sept 28, 2016 20:14:15 GMT
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Post by beef on Jun 28, 2019 11:18:03 GMT
Interesting tour of PG's writing room and I think explains why PG takes forever to finish & release new stuff - must be an incredibly expensive and inefficient way to work... but it keeps Dickie Chappell in a job...
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Post by beef on May 21, 2020 9:06:14 GMT
Just found this by accident - looks like a funny one.
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Post by beef on Sept 29, 2020 19:02:52 GMT
Not PG... sounds familiar?
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Post by beef on Dec 20, 2020 19:21:17 GMT
Used to get a lot of otherwise unavailable tracks via folks on the old official PG forum... which really kept my interest during what has mostly been a decades-long PG famine... always amazes me how he's kept it all going with such little released since... the 80s, really... an album a decade at best since. Anyway, in the spirit of those days here's something that looks interesting - bigozine2.com/roio/?p=5031 |
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Post by beef on Sept 7, 2021 10:39:44 GMT
Two favourite PG photos - a demo of the yet to become iconic Fairlight CMI in 1980. PG looks serious because it came with a serious price tag... and a more recent photo, no doubt smiling at the memory of the Fairlight demo and that the £30K (the price of a house back then) was money well spent...  |
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