The Specials

by **Kounelaki** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 2:30 am

Interview with Terry Hall and friends
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/fe ... iew-2-tone

by **Scouser** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 1:10 pm

I LOVE the two Specials albums....

by **Dave Smith** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 4:11 pm

Coventry's finest.The first album is brilliant.

by **zabird** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 10:19 pm

Thanks for posting that, Kounelaki.

Love their first album. Saw them in Oklahoma in 1980. One of my two favorite concerts ever. Would love to see them again.

Too bad Dammers isn't along for the ride too.

by **black francis** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 3:34 pm

What's the other favorite concert?

by **zabird** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 11:18 pm

black francis wrote:What's the other favorite concert?

A Cramps show in 1980. Lux Interior in his prime, writhing around on the stage floor, his barely there pants rolling down with him. A glorious, glorious night.

by **Red** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 8:03 am

"Everything was a drama," says Hall. "Getting picked up at the airport was a drama, checking into the hotel was a drama, leaving the hotel was a drama. You couldn't get any space, not even for an hour or two, because wherever you went there were these lads who'd travelled 9,000 miles to see you live and didn't have anywhere to stay, so you had to put them up in your room and then you had to sit up all night with them." He sighs. "Talking about the fucking Specials."

i could never figure that out. why do fans always do that? usually bands want to talk about anything BUT the band. :rolleyes:

it'd be cool to see The Specials......but i somehow doubt they'll tour the US. :rolleyes:

by **zabird** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 2:27 pm

Red wrote:it'd be cool to see The Specials......but i somehow doubt they'll tour the US.

why not? they have tons of fans here too.

by **Kounelaki** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 4:12 am

Interview with Jerry Dammers
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 33075.html

by **fat cherry** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 4:00 am

Red wrote:
i could never figure that out. why do fans always do that? usually bands want to talk about anything BUT the band. :rolleyes:

well by my reckoning theres only a handful of weirdos who want to hang around with a band (or those with juvenile intelligence who thinks a bit of the magic might rub off). And if the band had any brains I'm sure they could steer the conversation around to something really interesting like the economic downturn, and as it was the eighties - thatcher and how she would destroy the working classes. That such conflict in just what is an interesting conversation might occur is why most fans give their heroes a wide berth. Unfortunately this skews results so bands get the impression we all want to talk about the specials, or the bunnymen, or whatever.

by **Red** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 6:39 am

zabird wrote:why not? they have tons of fans here too.

well, it has nothing to do with the fans, does it? as usual.

by **Dr Evil** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 7:55 am

fat cherry wrote:well by my reckoning theres only a handful of weirdos who want to hang around with a band (or those with juvenile intelligence who thinks a bit of the magic might rub off). And if the band had any brains I'm sure they could steer the conversation around to something really interesting like the economic downturn, and as it was the eighties - thatcher and how she would destroy the working classes. That such conflict in just what is an interesting conversation might occur is why most fans give their heroes a wide berth. Unfortunately this skews results so bands get the impression we all want to talk about the specials, or the bunnymen, or whatever.

I reckon Mac would be a football bore. I wouldn't mind a conversation with Will about Star Trek.

by **Kounelaki** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 12:10 pm

by **Dr Cheese** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 12:19 pm

I saw them do Ghost Town and Too Much Too Young, it was enjoyable and a bit wrong at the same time.

by **zabird** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 12:34 pm

Dr Cheese wrote:I saw them do Ghost Town and Too Much Too Young, it was enjoyable and a bit wrong at the same time.

How so?

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