Hey Phibes (maybe): RIP Terry Hall
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I always liked 'em. Ostensibly the most surly guy to ever come out of Coventry, but that was just how he came off. He actually had a lot to do with The Specials getting back together.
I had an absolutely insane fucking week a few years back when I saw The Specials, The Beat, and Toots & the Maytals, all in the same week. I was almost deaf by Saturday but it was an epic series of shows. (At the time, I calculated that the length of hiatus that Dave Wakeling and Ranking Roger had with The Beat was longer than I'd even been alive. Gives you perspective when thinking about recession woes.)
Anyway, The Specials are the shit. Here's a good example of Hall's signature stoney disposition, even during a live show:
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Happy days, those. RIP Mr. Hall. He had a very distinctive way about him, didn't he?
Incidentally, I saw The Selector play a couple of years back in the UK, with Jools Holland.
I was only joking
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@Mik said in Hey Phibes (maybe): RIP Terry Hall:
Saw them in 83. They backed up the Police in SD.
Whoa, that woulda been awesome.
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Happy days, those. RIP Mr. Hall. He had a very distinctive way about him, didn't he?
Incidentally, I saw The Selector play a couple of years back in the UK, with Jools Holland.
@Doctor-Phibes said in Hey Phibes (maybe): RIP Terry Hall:
Incidentally, I saw The Selector play a couple of years back in the UK, with Jools Holland.
Just curious: what was the average age of the crowd? When I saw the Specials and the Beat, everyone was either slightly older than me, or much younger and Asian. I don't know what's up with that.
The Toots show was just stoners of every stripe.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Hey Phibes (maybe): RIP Terry Hall:
Incidentally, I saw The Selector play a couple of years back in the UK, with Jools Holland.
Just curious: what was the average age of the crowd? When I saw the Specials and the Beat, everyone was either slightly older than me, or much younger and Asian. I don't know what's up with that.
The Toots show was just stoners of every stripe.
@Aqua-Letifer said in Hey Phibes (maybe): RIP Terry Hall:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Hey Phibes (maybe): RIP Terry Hall:
Incidentally, I saw The Selector play a couple of years back in the UK, with Jools Holland.
Just curious: what was the average age of the crowd? When I saw the Specials and the Beat, everyone was either slightly older than me, or much younger and Asian. I don't know what's up with that.
The main event was the Jools Holland big band, and the average age was probably people in their 40's and 50's, but there was a big range. Jools hosts a live TV show on the BBC, so he's well known by a pretty large demographic. It was my father in law who talked me into going, and he's in his 70's, but my son came too and he was a teenager.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Hey Phibes (maybe): RIP Terry Hall:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Hey Phibes (maybe): RIP Terry Hall:
Incidentally, I saw The Selector play a couple of years back in the UK, with Jools Holland.
Just curious: what was the average age of the crowd? When I saw the Specials and the Beat, everyone was either slightly older than me, or much younger and Asian. I don't know what's up with that.
The main event was the Jools Holland big band, and the average age was probably people in their 40's and 50's, but there was a big range. Jools hosts a live TV show on the BBC, so he's well known by a pretty large demographic. It was my father in law who talked me into going, and he's in his 70's, but my son came too and he was a teenager.
@Doctor-Phibes said in Hey Phibes (maybe): RIP Terry Hall:
@Aqua-Letifer said in Hey Phibes (maybe): RIP Terry Hall:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Hey Phibes (maybe): RIP Terry Hall:
Incidentally, I saw The Selector play a couple of years back in the UK, with Jools Holland.
Just curious: what was the average age of the crowd? When I saw the Specials and the Beat, everyone was either slightly older than me, or much younger and Asian. I don't know what's up with that.
Jools hosts a live TV show on the BBC,
Later! With Jools Holland
Very familiar! Watched it every week when I was in Oz. It was great.
