Re: Remember The Long Hot Summer of 19??

Canned Heat - great band!!!

As we're in 1967 mode, how about this one?



I saw him perform this at Windsor Jazz and Blues Festival in 1967. He was lowered to the stage on a cherry picker but something went wrong and the methanol in his headpiece caught fire and had to be extinguished by the judicious application of beer. Great fun though, and what an amazing festival!

Re: Remember The Long Hot Summer of 19??

I remember well the long hot summer of 1976 which lasted 3 months ...
I was so pleased to see the rain when it finally arrived.

Re: Remember The Long Hot Summer of 19??

I remember it very well, heavily pregnant, walking up St.Michaels Hill in Bristol to the maternity hospital!

Re: Remember The Long Hot Summer of 19??

Ah, 1996, Underworld's "Second Toughest in the Infants" album, the track called "Pearl's Girl"... I love it when the drums kick in.

Mind you I have strange musical taste.

Re: Remember The Long Hot Summer of 19??

I used to love this one.

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I wasn't. I was at the Reading Festival on the August Bank Holiday when the weather broke. Bloody typical - the weather stayed fine the whole summer and as soon as headline act Rory Gallagher appeared on stage on the Saturday it pissed down and we were all drenched to the skin. A good gig though for all that except that I had some stuff pinched as well.

I blame that useless minister Dennis Howell - whatever job Sunny Jim Callaghan gave him, he ballsed it up. Minister for sport? GB didn't win a damned thing, Minister for drought? Some of the heaviest rain ever recorded so became Minister for floods. A really harsh and severe winter in 1978 saw him as Minister for snow. Kiss of death that bloke.

Re: Remember The Long Hot Summer of 19??

Gosh Tess, that is some hill to walk up at the best of times and must have been a nightmare when heavily pregnant.

Fortunately my two were born in '73 before St Michaels was built or I would have had to walk up there carrying twins

Re: Remember The Long Hot Summer of 19??

I remember that year mainly because it was the year my MIL died.

Re: Remember The Long Hot Summer of 19??

I remember my boyfriend (who I later married) taking me to see the Dave Clark Five in London. The whole dance floor used to stamp the floor on the boom-boom bits.

Re: Remember The Long Hot Summer of 19??

Another classic underworld track.