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Listening to the album 'Comedy' by Paul Kelly & the Messengers, I'd completely forgotten there was a hidden track at the end. After the end of the last listed song, there's a longish gap, then the band kicks off a (possibly beer-fuelled) singalong of "One David Gower, there's only one David Gower", which starts off to the tune of 'Guantanamera' before sliding into 'I'll find my Way Home' by Jon & Vangelis. I'm assuming, as Paul Kelly is Australian, this is a tribute to the Tiger Moth incident, rather than Gower's batting skills.

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Woohoo! I've just read that the Jayhawks have reformed! :)

I have a mental image of Ben Gunn from 'Treasure Island'.

The latest cover of Viz

Saturday's trip to the second-hand record shop yielded the following: Edgar Winter - Entrance/White Trash Louis Jordan - Choo choo ch'Boogie (Compilation) Richie Havens - The Great Blind Degree The Brothers Johnson - Winners

David Bowie & Dana Gillespie - Bowpromo1. Very odd to hear someone other than The Dame singing 'Andy Warhol'. Levon Helm - Dirt Farmer. Nat 'King' Cole - The very Thought of you. J.Geils Band - Full House Live. Sly & Robbie - A Dub Experience.

Earth, Wind & Fire - Raise! Trumpetty. Very trumpetty.

Who says there are odd folk on the internet? Birds with Arms.

It were all Two-Tone round here when I was a lad...

I used to hate Kraftwerk with a passion when I was young - some half-baked notion of it not being 'real' because it was all keyboards, sequencers and computers. Embarrassing, when I look back on it. The live version of 'Radioactivity' on Minimum/Maximum is also fantastic.

Gil Scott-Heron, Brian Jackson & the Midnight Band, live from Berkeley, 1978 (downloaded from the Dime a Dozen site). Decent quality, apart from some channel balance problems in the early tracks.

Frank Zappa - We're only in it for the Money Gary Moore - Still got the Blues Gram Parsons - Another Side of this Life Jethro Tull - Original Masters Joe Cocker - The Joe Cocker Collection Love - False Start Ministry - The Mind is a terrible Thing to taste The Band - Northern Lights, Southern Cross Tom Petty - Southern Accents

A few recent LPs digitised: David Crosby - If I could only remember my Name Family - Music in a Doll's House Gordon Giltrap - Guitarist Leslie West - Mountain Rodney Crowell - Keys to the Highway Santana - Caravanserai The Grateful Dead - In the Dark The Neville Brothers - Yellow Moon The Residents - Commercial Album Richie Havens - Alarm Clock

Guerrilla stickers on London Underground maps.

The Google Maps Alphabet

Soft Machine - Volume 2. My first Soft Machine album, and I like it a lot. I bought it after reading Stephen Mejias' excellent description (scroll down to the paragraph starting with the words "side 1"). I reckon he's spot on - a good bit of writing.

How un-PC can you get?

I've just discovered that I live about 5 bus stops from a good second-hand record shop. Quite embarrassing that I've only just found it, seeing as it's so close and had obviously been there for years. But it is on a street which I normally would have no reason or need to go along. Anyhoo, me being a fool, said boutique soon parted me from my money, in exchange for the following: Candi Staton - Chance LaBelle - Nightbirds Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr - Marilyn & Billy Mike Nesmith - Loose Salute Mike Nesmith - Magnetic South Mott the Hoople - Rock and Roll Queen Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the first Psychedelic Era (can't believe it has taken me so long to get round to buying this) Ry Cooder - Showtime Sir Douglas Quintet - Mendocino Tangerine Dream - Thief The Brothers Johnson - Right on Time 'Til Tuesday - Everything's different now ZZ Top - Eliminator

Led Zep II is a fine fine thing, although Robert Plant squealing about Gollum is a bit cringey and dated.

More vinyl digitised over the long weekend: Crowded House - Woodface Faith no more - Introduce yourself Funkadelic - Maggot Brain Joan Armatrading & Pam Nestor - Whatever's for us Kansas - Two for the Show Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II Melissa Etheridge - Melissa Etheridge Phil Manzanera - 801 Robert Cray - Don't be afraid of the Dark Robert Gordon & Link Wray - Fresh Fish Special Roky Erickson - All that may do my Rhyme The Blues Brothers - Briefcase full of Blues The Fifth Dimension - Love's Lines, Angles and Rhymes The H-Factor - The H-Factor The Steve Morse Band - Stand up The Steve Morse Band - The Introduction Willie Nelson - Classic Willie Nelson

More vinyl digitised: 12" Singles The Bangles - Hazy Shade of Winter/Joan Jett - She's lost you The Bangles - Eternal Flame Hothouse Flowers - Don't go Hue and Cry - I refuse LPs Bob Dylan - Oh Mercy Dion - Yo Frankie Doll by Doll - Remember Marianne Faithfull - Strange Weather Pink Floyd - The Final Cut Son House - Death Letter The Blues Brothers - Made in America The Fifth Dimension - Individually and Collectively The Fifth Dimension - Portrait

If you only check out one, try the Brothers Johnson. Funky from 'fro to toe!

Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields - Villa-Lobos' Bachianas brazileiras No.5 Joe Walsh - But seriously, folks Leon Russell - Carney Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood The Brothers Johnson - Look out for #1 The Mighty Wah! - A Word to the wise Guy The Triffids - Treeless Plain Thin Lizzy - Black Rose Tom Waits - Big Time Voodoo X - Vol.1

Latest vinyl rips, done over the weekend: Chet Atkins & Mark Knopfler - Neck and Neck Curtis Mayfield - Honesty Elvis Presley - the Sun Collection Frank Zappa - Ship arriving too late to save a drowning Witch Genesis - Foxtrot Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual Joe Jackson - Jumpin' Jive Kansas - Power Lenny Kravitz - Let Love rule Little Feat - Sailin' Shoes Little Feat - The Last Record Album Little Feat - Time loves a Hero Noiseworks - Love versus Money Raging Slab - Raging Slab