Welcome back Pix. Nice to hear from you again. It's a shame so many friends have dropped by the wayside, and nice when they return.

They say to avoid hangovers don't get sober. To avoid blisters.... don't stop playing!     

i agree with all the above.

ps, this isn't spam....lol     

I don't know about exploding drummers, (I've seen that film too) but I know I'd like to have blown a few up. One actually fell asleep during Summer Time Blues... unbelievable?
I had one supposedly accompanying me on a New Years Eve gig...he couldn't keep time, he had just one speed and did not know the difference between a waltz and rock and roll!!!

I hate them my self but a drum machine beats them hands down in a live situation.
I've also known some brilliant drummers, but as they live in South Wales I don't think they're what you're looking for     

I mostly understand your songs and they're usually pretty good, just like this poem, so don't put yourself down. As for Nashville....the songwriters there (in the past) have taken the three chord trick to new heights, if it wasn't for the words they'd all be the same song. Not knocking country as a whole, there are some brilliant songs and artistes, especially the ones that have moved with the times.
Richard
I also don't know who made that statement, but I like it.     

I've heard that song a lot but I never knew who wrote or sang it. So thanks for that... brilliant, I can just imagine Christine Mc Vie doing harmonies.     

Jud Strunk???? must be a funny guy with a name like that?

what is funny is that this was one of those throw away songs, it seems like looking back is a hot topic at the moment and it just came out with hardly any work involved. i have recorded it and it lasts just a minute and a half. i shall post it when time allows.     

i prefer butter to any kind of spread. we ought to stop this before we both get told off. i've never wanted to go to Paris; i've heard men and women use the same Louvre?     

ah my teenage years. no mobile phones. no computers. no satellite tv....remind me again, how did we exist?

i've got a night off so i'm hoping to record it tonight. hope it lives up to expectations.     

Thanks Jeff. you must have got better pubs than we have, it's all up-to-date songs sung by teenagers(?) to backing tracks so you cant tell if they're actually singing.     

Thanks Peatle. Of course I blame you for all this nostalgia...lol     

Ah Peatle, I'd like to say that this happens so often, but it doesn't! Most of my school chums are reclining under six feet of good Welsh soil, or they've moved to pastures new. When I have met up with some of them, the conversation goes almost exactly as you've written. I met one guy in a pub back in the day we were big pals but he didn't even know who I was! Maybe some kind of brain damage caused by the punch I gave him during one our fights? I doubt that as I couldn't punch my way out of a paper bag back then...lol. no, I think he'd had some kind of stroke or worse.
As usual Mr P, you've got my brain working with your insightful, intelligent and concise view of the world.