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Subject: [Simmons Drums] Re: Simmons in action

From: "teknikfourteen" <teknik14@...>
Date: 2013-04-04

Karl looks weird with long hair.
All I can say is thank goodness for Trainspotting... :-)


--- In Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, "chris@..." <chris@...> wrote:
>
> On 02 April 2013 at 16:52 Scott Gibbons <scott@...> wrote:
> > Nice one! Every time I see this video though, I wonder why the guy on the
> > left is playing a broom handle. Was that an homage to Gary Numan and the
> > tube from his mum's Hoover? ;-)
> >
>
> I was wondering about that as well. Perhaps he really wanted a Chapman stick,
> but had to make do with a broom handle as they'd already blown the budget on the
> rest of their gear! The lyrics are excruciatingly bad, at least to a native
> English speaker, which is a shame as I really like the music. They continued
> with nonsense lyrics though, as the two main members went on to form Underworld
> whose "Born Slippy" has a strange shouted / chanted vocal that's also defies
> interpretation.
>
> Chris
>