Friday, 24 June 2011

Simple minded



Oh, I am so excited! I'm off to see Eighties stadium-rock group Simple Minds play live tonight! I never got to see them in their heyday, so this is total wish-fulfilment nostalgia.

I played this album so often:

 

I am, I admit, now slightly puzzled nowadays by why I thought Jim Kerr was totally gorgeous at the time.

 

I mean ... he's sort of, um ... Maybe it was the floppy hair? (He did have great hair - all gone now, sadly.) The tight leggings? Nah, it was the anthemic music. He sang and I thought he was beautiful. Lurv is blind.



Heh ... I did hear a joke about him, long ago:  
Q: How does Jim Kerr get a seven-inch erection?
A: He folds it in half.

I have NO IDEA whether this is fact-based. But I like to think that, unlike hair, some things don't diminish with age ;-)
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6 comments:

  1. Craig Sorensen24 June 2011 at 09:51

    Now THAT'S a blast from the past! The vid of Ghostdancing is an excellent live performance.

    All this takes me back to my days when I had just gotten out of the Army; Simple Minds was a staple on MTV. (Remember when they played music?)

    One of my Simple Minds faves remains "Don't You (Forget About Me)" from the movie "The Breakfast Club."

    Enjoy the show!

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  2. Jo24 June 2011 at 10:16

    Ah, yes, my first thought is always The Breakfast Club. Have an emotion filled evening!

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  3. Janine Ashbless24 June 2011 at 10:48

    Hey Craig! That jangly guitar riff on Ghostdancing just drives me wild with delight :-)

    D'you know, I've never seen "The Breakfast Club"? For other people my age it is a formative 80s memory, but it passed me by. (In a reclaiming-my-misspent youth moment recently, I bought Warlock. Go mullets!)

    I'm sure I'll enjoy the show - I'm desperately hoping he can still hit the big note on "Sanctify Yourself." And I will lift a (plastic) glass to you Craig when I'm there :-)

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  4. Janine Ashbless24 June 2011 at 10:49

    Thanks Jo!

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  5. Janine Ashbless25 June 2011 at 00:20

    HE LOOKS LIKE A WEE GLASWEGIAN THUG AND HE DANCES LIKE YOUR DAD, BUT HE CAN STILL SING!

    Sorry, I'm a bit deaf. We were right at the front :-)

    I had my first beer shower...

    At least I hope it was beer.

    It was certainly beer once ...

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  6. Craig Sorensen25 June 2011 at 10:37

    Well, dancing never was exactly his thing, was it?!

    Sounds like a great time ("golden shower" notwithstanding.)

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