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I think the trouble with the world  is it has been taken over by big corporates in everything from media to all sorts of businesses. Here in NZ we followed the UK, we  had a group of people set up a pirate radio station outside our three mile limit on the sea. In their earlier years they were great but when they came into the system and were sold to a big corporation it was radio like everyone else with set play lists. The trouble with these Simon Cowel type characters is the big money backs them and how it operates is on boring staid formulas which work on copies of previous things that have satisfied the bean counters. The space that was made available for the original  innovative ideas and a chance to improvise that was for a short time, made available to people on TV and radio has been taken away by  controlling corporates.

We have many famous people move to NZ get away from the busy rest of the World. Wellington is a place where many famous people come to make movies. Peter Jackson who made Lord Of The Rings and Hobbit movies is a local boy. James Cameron a very successful Hollywood producer lives in the part of our country known as the Wairarapa about an hours drive from Wellington. A local man Brett Mckenzie won an Academy Award for best Original song ,  Man or Muppet. The movie was Muppets Most Wanted, suposedly for kids many adults enjoy watching the Muppets also. Brett was also a member of a local musical comedy group Flight Of The Conchords who had a bit of sucess over in the States with young adult  Americans  watching their TV showed which was made in New York. I will attach one of the Flight Of The Conchords songs from that series Carol Brown.                                              youtube.com/watch?v=1cGoDns8wTA&list=RD1cGoDns8wTA

Thank you C G I have often wonderd where Bob got his Dylan from. You mentioned another great song writer who I like also that is Paul Simon. I agree many of Bobs song are sung better by other people. Some songs of Bob's  need Dylans voice to make it work. Zurf does a great job of Bob's song.

The film Alices Restaurant first got me interested in Arlo.  And Bob Dylans Hey Mr Tambourine Man was the first song I remember of his that got me listening to him. I wonder if Bob gave himself the last name Dylan as a nod to Dylan Thomas.

Some of my relatives and friends over in Australia refer to NZ as The Shaky Isles due to our earthquakes. Thank you for your kind thoughts. Apart from knowing about it through the News media it really had no impact on our end of the North Island.

Tossed a coin this song was the side that came up. Here it is done differant just a quick bash not like the original for anyone wanting to have a listen.    Sorry Arlo yours is still the best.                                             https://soundcloud.com/eatleville/city-of-new-oleans

UJB here is another saying to add to the list.
Not the full sandwich.

Marrying into a Greek Romanian family has had some fun comunication moments for me. There are people here in New Zealand who watch Coronation Street religously and talk about the characters on that show as if they are perople from the neighbourhood. My favourite Brit Show in recent years was Last Of The Summer Wine.

I better not say Gat in the back  to an American Cop if I ever get pulled up over there. Still I supose the slang term axe for guitar used around the world might sound strange if you say I got my axe in the Boot. I think maybe the word Gat in NZ came about through our pronouncation of guitar sounding a bit like Gat Tar to some. If I was to say I have got an Old Bomb In NZ that still goes it might not go down to well if I am  talking to American authorities. It can still  do the Ton and over no sweat. Translation I have an old car that car  can still go over 100. We also refer to old cars as Dungers.

Gidday Amy that is always lots of fun working out people differant sayings.  Even little things that people say, here in New Zealand we quiet often refer to a guitar as a gat. Cherio when I was growing up here in NZ meant goodbye. Though now days it is not used by the modern generation. My 95 year old Mother always says cherio when saying good bye to me.
Cherio for now.

I am keen to see what I can cover and make it beyond reconition of the original.

Thank you Rickyjack I will attach another NZ song for you to check out by a band that is from here that Joe Walsh of the Eagles liked. He even came over to NZ to help them in the recording studio. The video was made at a Marae up on the East Coast of New Zealand at a place called Ruatoria.       Marae (Maori meeting place)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDmZRvJBS-E