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Love George Thorogood stuff👍
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Time to get the best out of those CC’s - Clarkin & Catley, that is - and hit the highway …
Great song from, a great band and, arguably, their finest album.
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Saw then last year in Glasgow, He can wind a gig right up to a full on party, and he has just the songs to do it.
He played this as the crowds where coming in, as song I forgot about.
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Craig Chaquico, former lead guitarist of Jefferson Airplane/Starship. I met him in California, and he gifted me this album. He told me his music is inspired by his canyon rides on his Harley.
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Not really my favourite Sammy Hagar song but relevent, and the hamming on this video is ludicrous.
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Sammy Hagar was/is a great vocalist - and no mean gutiarist - and posting that reminded me of his early years with MONTROSE so I thought this would be fairly appropriate …
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You posted that last June. 
My apologies. It’s an age thing … 
You’re in good company. (As opposed to Bad Company 
)
I wouldn’t worry Adie, there’s even a name for it - threshold syndrome… once you get to a different room you can’t remember why you went there… 
Happens to me… 
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The good thing - perhaps the ONLY good thing - about this early onset dementia deal is you can’t remember the bad bits … and there are PLENTY of those. Least that’s what my manager/carer/wife keeps telling me!
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Never seen it.
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A supporter of the Triumph Co-op at Meriden was JJ Burnell, bass guitarist with the Stranglers. This track off of his The Euroman Cometh album - Triumph of the Good City - contains the iconic Bonneville engine sound.
JJ quote “The Triumph Worker’s Co-operative at Meriden has proved that personally motivated enterprise coupled with group interest is a necessary ingredient in successful socialism…”
In 1979 (when the album was released) the Press discovered that Civil Servants at the Department of Industry had attempted to close the Meriden Co-op as part of a secret deal with Kawasaki to bring its manufacturing operation to Britain.
Meriden had made a loss of £400,000 that year despite the fall in the value of the pound against the dollar (roughly 60% of sales were to the US) compared to Honda’s loss of $50 Million in the same year.
The Stranglers weren’t really my thing but I bought that album…
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I wonder which side of the General Election that was?
The Civil Service skullduggery was discussed in the House of Commons and by the press in January, the election was in May.
The Triumph’s Social Club had red, white and blue Triumph quilted jackets made up to support the local MP Geoffrey Robinson’s political profile. He was supplied with a special three quarter length Triumph coat that he wore in the House of Commons.
Some Triumph workers even helped canvasing for him in the election while wearing their Triumph jackets bedecked with Labour rosettes. Celebrations were cut short on Geoffrey’s re-election once the change of Government was known.
MP and Family (note Triumph jacket) on 4th May 1979 at Meriden
Edit: By the way, as this should be unbiased, Geoffrey Robinson was the ex Chairman of Jaguar, the ex Chairman of Coventry City FC and an ex Spy for Czechoslovakia. 
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He was Labor’s paymaster general for many years, but had to resign from that role for inappropriate financial dealings….
Doesn’t matter Which side of the political bed you get out of… there’s inappropriate behaviour in most of the seats in the house, and always has been… We do seem to have had a rum bunch recently though.
Just to draw a neat little circle around this minor thread diversion…
Grip by the Stranglers
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