LC Walking Weekend (2009 - 2017)

[Diane]

If I am thirty years younger than you, that makes me about, what, 10:-)? (That must be a counter charm-offensive, considering Ian's age.) I don't think my musical taste is confined to eras or genre. My son returned from the Donnington Rock Festival last week, full of having seen Aerosmith, ACDC, Rage Against the Machine (I have admired Tom Morello since seeing him play with Bruce), and Slash (guitarist from Guns n Roses). I would have loved to have gone with him, but he wouldn't allow me to. Mary Black - yes, what a gorgeous voice she has.

[Yorkshire Lad]

If I am thirty years younger than you, that makes me about, what, 10:-)? (That must be a counter charm-offensive, considering Ian's age.)

Diane
Since you are having trouble with your mathematics heres a little riddle to solve which will give you my age . Just a bit of fun no prizes ! That way you will be able to knock off the thirty so you know how old you are !
Count the times he closed the book
But takeaway Nancy's gun
Then add a load of angels
And Issac's age for fun
But then subtract the angels again
You no longer need them there
Along with the number of magazines
Lying dead upon a chair
Then minus a very early time
On a chilly december day
Along with how the guests arrive
Those you want to stay
This should reveal the total
From the moment of my birth
And let you into the secret
Of the years I have spent on earth

[Henning]

I wonder if Henning has given birth to a new song.

Diane, I gave birth to quite a lot songs since then but not Leonards poems but Rainer Maria Rilke's. For me it is so interesting to see how differently the lyrics and the language affect the melody.

[Pete]

If I am thirty years younger than you, that makes me about, what, 10:-)? (That must be a counter charm-offensive, considering Ian's age.)

Diane
Since you are having trouble with your mathematics heres a little riddle to solve which will give you my age . Just a bit of fun no prizes ! That way you will be able to knock off the thirty so you know how old you are !
Count the times he closed the book
But takeaway Nancy's gun
Then add a load of angels
And Issac's age for fun
But then subtract the angels again
You no longer need them there
Along with the number of magazines
Lying dead upon a chair
Then minus a very early time
On a chilly december day
Along with how the guests arrive
Those you want to stay
This should reveal the total
From the moment of my birth
And let you into the secret
Of the years I have spent on earth

Good grief, Phil...you honestly don't look 137 yrs old! What's the secret?

BTW I'm planning to live for ever...so far so good!

Pete

[Diane]

Phil I looked at this this morning, and I don't know how you have since edited it, but I thought of the Book of Longing and started off with 150 poems. It worked out that your age was 108, and I thought to myself, blimey, I look pretty damned good for 78, if I say so myself. But then, tonight, I 'got' I Tried to Leave You, and this time I make you two years shy of your sixth decade (surely not!). And that makes me 28. How did you guess? But then again, Pete is a famous mathematician...

Henning I am glad we are not mentioning the war. That's very interesting, that you are singing Rainer Maria Rilke poems now.

For me it is so interesting to see how differently the lyrics and the language affect the melody.

Is it more satisfying for you to sing in your native tongue? I like very much the Faces poem, which somebody taped for me being spoken very powerfully (in English). Will you be handing out translations when you sing at the events?

I did not realise, but a quote I really like, "Love is being the guardian of each other's solitude," sounds as if it originated with RMR:

"I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other."

[Yorkshire Lad]

Phil I looked at this this morning, and I don't know how you have since edited it, but I thought of the Book of Longing and started off with 150 poems. It worked out that your age was 108, and I thought to myself, blimey, I look pretty damned good for 78, if I say so myself. But then, tonight, I 'got' I Tried to Leave You, and this time I make you two years shy of your sixth decade (surely not!). And that makes me 28. How did you guess? But then again, Pete is a famous mathematician...

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Spot on Diane ! 58 Although I am on the red wine tonight ( well it is the weekend) so I will probably feel like your first guess tomorrow .Two years to go and then I will be " just a kid with a crazy dream" ( and a bus pass )
What do you mean " Pete is a famous mathmatician "

[Diane]

I am on the red wine tonight.

Just like always...

Me too actually. A nice Chilean. I've fancied a glass ever since someone mentioned ub40 the other day.

What do you mean " Pete is a famous mathmatician

I mean he is a mathematician by trade. It is his living, his raison d'etre. And he is a famous singer, author and poet. And he calculated that you are 137.

[Yorkshire Lad]

I am on the red wine tonight.

Just like always...

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Me too actually. A nice Chilean. I've fancied a glass ever since someone mentioned ub40 the other day.

What do you mean " Pete is a famous mathmatician

I mean he is a mathematician by trade. It is his living, his raison d'etre. And he is a famous singer, author and poet. And he calculated that you are 137.

Are you sure it is only one glass there seems to be some rambling creeping in but what can we expect from a red wine drinking 107 year old .
Pete
It is good to know that you are a mathmatician by trade . Next walking weekend it would make good sense for you to go to the bar all the time so we don't get over charged ( Hows that for a yorkshireman thinking out of the box )

[Diane]

Well according to the picture it is three bottles. But I don't think you are rambling too badly, considering.

[Yorkshire Lad]

Well according to the picture it is three bottles. But I don't think you are rambling too badly, considering.

Speaking about the picture notice how I have got my hand across Jean's body trapping her in her seat so she does'nt get any silly ideas like buying someone a drink

[liverpoolken]

I wonder if Henning has given birth to a new song.

Diane, I gave birth to quite a lot songs since then but not Leonards poems but Rainer Maria Rilke's. For me it is so interesting to see how differently the lyrics and the language affect the melody.

henning

....it’s truly amazing how sometimes opposite forces of energy attract themselves to each other……….your association with rilke finds yourself yet again in the wonderful and magical world of mr dylan…

....robert hunter…he of grateful dead/jerry garcia fame has been a long time collaborator of mr dylan from way back in the eighties right up to the present day to being lyricist of mr dylan’s 2009 materpiece together through life……

....robert hunter has for years been translating the poems of rilke and transcribing some of them to music……….it was rumoured a few years back that mr hunter had mr dylan on board for an album of his rilke poem/songs…….which of course had us dylan fans running to the library to see who this rilke fella was.....

...despite mr dylan naming rilke as one on his literary influences in various interviews the project never got off the ground…….but because of this interest in hunter/rilke amongst us dylan fans a couple of mr hunter’s live performances were soon bootlegged…….i had a couple of bootleg cassettes (that’s how long ago it was) of these performances of mr hunter performing some of his rilke poem/songs………can’t say I remember liking them very much otherwise I wouldn’t have thrown them out…..’kinda leonard coheny without the dirty bits’ as I remember someone describing them on dylanpool at the time.....not too sure if mr hunter ever went into the studio and recorded any of his rilke poem/songs although I think he has them published

……anyways henning mr dylan may have dropped the rilke baton but it looks like you have picked it up again….possibly after all your work on the songs you may end up with 'the album that dylan never made'......maybe i could do the artwork and help you with the promotion...

…..i’m afraid i'm still struggling with the works of the world’s two greatest poets william shakespeare and robert allen zimmerman an undertaking which takes far too much of my ever decreasing brain power and the limited time left that I have on this earth for me give time for the lesser poets we meet along the way……but i shall certainly look forward to hearing one or two of your rilke poem/songs......

ta ken

[liverpoolken]

Phil

Thank you very much for your A Toenail Must Die your humour and inventiveness never cease to amaze me

I have printed out the poem and it now lies in my memory box along with the matchbox and it's contents.

Do you realise where the idea for the matchbox came from?

From that old raggy and dirty minded Yorkshireman from Holmfirth of course.

One of the longest running gags on TV was surely the last of the summer wine's (sadly now axed) compo and his matchbox.

I don't think it was ever disclosed what was in the matchbox that he would show (mostly to women) that would send them into a fit of hysterics??

i shall definitely bring it to krakow....just to see if i can get the same reaction from the old ladies as old compo use to get....god bless his dirty little socks....ta ken

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[Yorkshire Lad]

Phil



Do you realise where the idea for the matchbox came from?

Ken
You are just the man who can help me on the subject of matchboxes and there contents . I here what you say about Compo but when you first posted the matchbox theme my initial thought was of Hilda Baker ( she knows you know ) . When I was a boy I can vaguely remember her performing with a very tall chap . I think his name was Eli and he had a match box which he said contained a giraffe . Is this true or have I dreamt it . I think they used to do a routine based on the contents of his matchbox . Have I got it mixed up with someone else . I ask you because you are much older and wiser than myself so you will probably know about such things
Kind regards
Phil

[liverpoolken]

phil

you've come to the right man.......old music hall acts are my speciality....i'm the only person i know who thinks that arthur askey was a comic genius.....

..........you are getting a little mixed up with the hylda baker sketch....hylda's stooge was cynthia always played by a very tall man and who actually said nothing allthe time through the act.......hylda would look up to cynthia and say something like....'go on tell 'em, tell 'em about that the man in post office, go on tell 'em what he said to you, go on tell 'em how he made a suggestion go on tell 'em' etc etc etc. until hylda had told the whole story herself with the punch line 'she knows yer know' without 'cynthia' actually saying anything.....brilliant stuff......there is a link between last of the summer wine and hylda baker....the actress who plays marina the femme fatale on the bike had a one woman hylda baker show that she toured around the country for years...i saw it a number of times and it was simply brilliant

...now the matchbox and sometimes it was a shoebox sketch was jimmy james and his stooge eli woods, later to be replaced by a young roy castle...i believe eli was a realtive of jimmy's as was the guy playing the other stooge.....eli was also an actor who i saw a couple of times at the liverpool playhouse...as for jimmy james he was years ahead of his time with his surreal comedy routines...........here are the actual sketches i found on youtube.....

.........so you see you weren't dreaming

...god knows what the forum self appointed busybodies make of all this non-cohen related stuff.....i fear the axe may soon fall on our ramblings unless we can quickly find some connection between leonard and wild animals in matchboxes or hylda baker's alfa-frolic liquor

first the wonderful baker hylda and cynthia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aKFar-UUB8&NR=1

now jimmy james with eli and then with roy castle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gprnJcN_m2A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OecxLHA ... re=related

[mutti]

Hope its ok to post here as I got a razzing from the Sligo prayer flag idea but when I saw the Christy Moore comments I got intrigued and then Maarten's comments too.
I saw Christy Moore and Planxty in 1973 in Cork. I remember after the concert walking in my new forest green platform boots all over town where we went to an after party with them and heard more of their great songs. I still have an album somewhere which I made into a tape.
I was only 20, young and green from Canada, living in Amsterdam with my Irish boyfriend, visiting his sister and friends in Cork for 2 weeks. When I think of that time I always remember the first time I heard Irish music and have been a fan of Christy Moore ever since. If he ever comes to the Pacific Northwest of Canada or the US I will see him. Leonard is the only one I travel far to see...
Mutti (Les)