Thanks for the info about the babies, Dianne!

Looks like I have to pass on my crown of "Oldest MB Poster" as you beat me by six years! Well done!

Yes, I'm hoping that a love of music will keep us going longer than most. If only there was one piece of evidence to support the idea, but alas, no. :(

@Trollheart: of course I was totally joking, Trollheart, though I always imagined that you would've liked the sixties stuff.

I'm surprised/flattered that you should copy my "Born to be mild" tag. Did I miss you acknowledging the fact somewhere? I thought that as a courtesy on MB, we gave a shout-out when we followed up on another member's recommendation or other idea. Of course, it's easy enough to forget where we first heard a band name, etc, so I'm as guilty as the next person of failing to give credit : :shycouch: *

( * shycouch emoji first popularised by Trollheart)

How odd. I was just thinking the same thing about you. I assumed you had copied me, but I wasn't saying anything about it.

Honestly, I only saw yours after I had chosen mine (I have another in use on another forum, "Nothing wicked this way comes" but thought this one suited better.) I just always imagined Steppenwolf singing "Born to be mi-hi-ild!" Also kind of a nod to STP on the whole "Born to Rune" thing in Unseen University.

But no, I always saw yours as "still listening" and thought it weird that you seemed to change yours after I changed mine, though to be fair I wasn't looking and couldn't tell you how long you had yours. Anyway, it does suit me, as I was born to be mild, and you couldn't get milder. If you disagree, I'll smash your head in! :D

:laughing: Thanks for the reminder! Yeah, I had that "Still listening..." for years. As you'll see, I've returned to the same theme for a new tag line, as it feels odd for us to both have the same one. Also, by dropping "Born to be mild", people will no longer guess that I'm a mild-mannered soul irl. Win!
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Back on topic, and so back to the start, here's the very first song I ever heard in stereo: I was really small, maybe six years old, when an aunt brought a stereo gramophone to our house, set up the two boxes that were the speakers, and put on this single to demonstrate her newly acquired record player:-



Recorded in mono I imagine, it was still fresh and startling enough to hold my attention for all of its one and a half minutes.

I guess he was talented....never got into that style though...

Never heard "chalk and cheese" before. Is that what the white stuff on Brie and Camembert is called? chalk? Does it mean you're really close? You look like you are really close. It's sweet & charming.

I absolutely love the 50s and 60s, musicwise. I grew up listening to all kinds of music. I heard ever Beatles and Stones album before my teen years. My father was a record collector. So thanks to him I also heard stuff like Cliff Richard and The Shadows, Mike Berry, The Searchers, The Tremeloes, Dave Clark Five, The Kinks and The Yardbirds.

I discovered this song in a stash of 45s (7" records) that my dad had stowed away in a shoe box. It's one of my favorites from that period, the late 60s. (So being of the late 60s this may or may not be a protest song. I'm not sure. If it is, then it is very subdued. imho)
Thunderclap Newman - Something in the Air


Jimmy McCulloch (young kid, star shirt, Gibson SG) also played guitar in Stone the Crows and in Paul McCartney's band, Wings.

Chalk and cheese is an extremely well-known phrase, surprised you don't know it, unless you're being facetious. Never can tell with you.

It means two things that are completely different. Jazz and punk are chalk and cheese etc.

A new member starts a thread about bands from the 60s and your cheese slips off your cracker.

Start a thread in sayings...
Don't keep a dog and bark yourself

Don't count your chickens before they are hatched

Don't cut off your nose to spite your face

Don't put the cart before the Horse

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater

Don't upset the apple cart

miliions of them.....

Chalk and Cheese is Opposites

She is middle class I am working class

My 1st Gig was Screaming Lord Sutch so Rosi and I hated it and we frightened I guess.
Many more came along, Joe Brown dont remember the bruvvers then though.

Stanley Halls and guess we were 14ish
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'68 recall but took to a different way of life and got married, so now living in a haze and dead broke, took on buying a house.





We still would sing this anytime we are somewhere we don't want to be...

Of course men and long hair was the thing then..pretty men..haha
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late 70's maybe....bellbottom jeans
the fur carpet came from the magical Kennards in Croydon and got stolen in a burglary that was a turning point for us. Should be able to trace that time because Husband was working for a well known clock maker, Elliott Brothers located in Union Road Croydon...then they moved on to Hastings, that's when Rosi moved there.....we joined her in 2000, the year my Dad died and my Mother now hated me even more for that. As if I could care, to be honest.

1970's