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flumphert 
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 Topic: Dancing at the Grove...Posted: 27-November-2006 at 17:34 |
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Does anybody remember the dance routine that went on during New Orders Blue Monday??? Something like 2 hops on one foot, switching to 2 hops on the other, then single hop each foot before turning 90 degrees and repeating the whole thing again. Or something to that effect
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finno
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Posted: 27-November-2006 at 17:47 |
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I thought that was if you spilt salt!
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Blondie
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Posted: 27-November-2006 at 19:29 |
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Nah sorry lost me there but then way past my time methinks
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Posted: 27-November-2006 at 20:25 |
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Sounds like a whole group of boys dieing to go to the toilet to me!!
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Posted: 27-November-2006 at 23:44 |
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Sorry Flumphert......in our day it was just headbanging all night long....but maybe at the xmas reunion we could all stand in a line when New Order's Blue Monday is playing and try it !!!!!...but have a funny feeling that we will just all fall over  |
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Blondie
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Posted: 28-November-2006 at 07:25 |
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Have to say sounds a bit "saturday night fever / greece " dance to me
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Blondie
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Posted: 28-November-2006 at 11:52 |
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That dance sounds very organised altogether Flumphert....
In my day ( as I lean on my Zimmerframe ) there was nothing too noticeable going on.... there were those awkward songs that you didn´t know which way to go and what to do.....for example... Bohemian Rhapsody Hands up here..who found that one a tad taxing ???? Started off as a perfect slowey, nice and long too to get the mood going and then BONGO...it speeds up and and you have a choice to: (A) peel away and start headbanging, mega depended on the partner for that one cos you had to come back to the slowey at the end of the song, ....OR (B) speed things up slightly, net result your slowey turning into something more resembling a foxtrot whilst you were whiling away the minutes til the tempo went back to the slowey again. (C) muttering a thanks and a see ya, cringing as you did, knowing you FAILED the test of " Conquering Bohemian Rhapsody". I love that song BUT I hated it played at the Grove for that reason alone.....got me into all sorts of sticky situations ( not in the literal sense now, don´t be rude !! ). Someone else I think Fester mentioned American by Simple Minds that it was hard to dance to that one without looking like a total gobsh*te. I echo that !! spot on......well said ! 
AWKWARDS SONGS to dance to........ Must be more !!! I´m waiting... ME 
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Posted: 28-November-2006 at 12:21 |
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God Bless you at The Shieling so Mins. Word has it that Cecil likes to round off the night with aforesaid Bohemian Rhapsody. Noodles. |
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Posted: 28-November-2006 at 15:48 |
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I think I remember seeing guys walking to the grove in a similar fashion!!! Especially the ones who were coming directly from St.Annes with a strange smell of sweet smoke coming from them...hehehe!! |
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Posted: 28-November-2006 at 15:54 |
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Now don't take this the wrong way guys but I think it was more a modern day thingy. Looking at everyones Grove attendance, you were all headbanging in the donkeys years ago days! I was merely just an early 90's kinda Grover. But I swear to god, during Blue Monday there was a dance that a few of the girlies and the very odd guys actually done. And it was quite disturbing. Almost as if they went into a trance for the whole duration of the song. Good job Cecil never played the 4 hour long 12" extended version!!!
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Posted: 28-November-2006 at 18:12 |
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Well there will be 2 speeds for me off that dance floor... Fast and Faster..... I will however be peering from behind the safety of a large pint just to see how yiz are all coping with that one without looking like total goonies.... Yep that´s what I´ll do.... 
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Posted: 28-November-2006 at 18:56 |
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Posted: 28-November-2006 at 20:10 |
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Dont recall the Blue Monday dance but always smile when Rock Lobster by the B52's comes on the radio, anyone else remember the circle of blokes (it was always blokes) flat on their backs and kicking the legs in the air for that one in a "humourous" lobster impression?
Funny how things stick in your head but apart from that Simple Minds track (The American) the other in-between-speed (not fast not slow) song that was hard to shake a leg to was Paul McCartney "No more lonely nights", remember it was first song played after midnight on a New Years Eve Grove once (maybe 84/85) and everyone was a bit puzzled as to whether to try and grab a victim for a slow set or do a kind of half shuffle till the guitar solo!  |
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Posted: 28-November-2006 at 21:30 |
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I remember that one VERY well....that was 100% sloweee, for me anyhow and a smoochy one at that.....by the time that guitar solo came around we were well on the way altogether to business of the monkey kind.. In my day ( as I grab for the oxygen mask this time )...in my day he played that quite a bit.....yep had forgotten about that one but now that you mention it...I liked it..... 
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Posted: 28-November-2006 at 23:19 |
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My memory has completely blotted out some incidents at the Grove I think - either that or I was completely hammered a lot of the time (come to think of it, both of those statements are true). I dont really remember that rock lobster dance Fester. 'No more lonely nights'? hmmm. Someone else said that Cecil played "Beat it" by Michael Jackson down there (around 1986?) - all very unsettling... |
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Posted: 29-November-2006 at 09:31 |
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Well its just a strange thing. I'm 29 this Sunday and feeling a tad bit on the elder side. But when I buzz onto the Grove website I don't feel like an elder at all!!! Now once again don't take this in a bad way. I mean it in a way that you guys were all at the Grove in the late 70's to late 80's. I on the other hand was there in the early 90's. You guys probably had more of the Bowie, Zeppelin, Steppenwolf, Free, Fleetwood Mac etc. etc. tunes going on. Whereas when I went Cecil also played that stuff AND the likes of Pantera, Alice In Chains, Faith No More, GN'R, Rage Against The Machine etc. That is why all of a sudden I feel like the kid of this forum!! Am I balencing on a thin line???
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Posted: 29-November-2006 at 10:04 |
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Flumbert, now I feel old. Theres a few there I've never heard and 2 I've never heard of before!!!
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Posted: 29-November-2006 at 10:29 |
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You and me both Finno, sorry. Flumphert another ageing grover here, never heard of ANY of the songs groups you mentioned. Glad we make you feel young Flumphert, keep posting maybe I ll learn more about the music Grove of the 90's |
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Posted: 29-November-2006 at 11:22 |
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Hey....watch out with those EMOTICAN thingeys...
Tried to post 4 times and my laptop got jammed..... anyhow.... YES haven´t heard of a few of them myself Flumphert and I ain´t exactly at the Free Travel Pass stage myself... amazing how Music passes from one generation to the next. Saw a Daddy and Son at that Fish gig I went to recently and I just thought " nice ". Both were not out of place. I frequently have a proud parent moment when in the midst of all the hip hop, Hilary Duff junk coming from my daughters´ bedroom, I then hear one of them singing along to Deep Purple,Yes or even a Talking Heads track. Global Education that´s the key..... Am NOT going to try and post a smiley..... Later, ME |
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Posted: 29-November-2006 at 11:29 |
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Hey Flumphy, don't mind those old codgers. Cecil has been known to spin Alice in Chains, Rage Against The Machine, Faith No More and defo Guns n' Roses at several Reunions. Not sure about Pantera. You'll hafta ask Lenny 3 Fingers about that. No sign of QOTSA, System of a Down or Evanescence though. |
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