I successfully identified a Rainbow track in a bar recently, and everyone agreed with me thAT "sINCE YOU bEEN gONE" (whoops, my shift appears to have momentarily locked. That'll be the Marmite) is a top slice of pop/rock splendidness, and that Grahame Bonnet, the first rocker to be named after a car part, strode the narrow world of pop and rock like a collosus in mirror shades. Alcohol may have played a part in my colleagues' agreement on this point. If I'm not mistaken, the release of SYBG was roughly the same time as "Dippity Day" by The Smurfs. Those of you with access to the Guiness Book of Hit Singles might be kind enough to check that out for me. This has been brought on by a very clear memory of the fattest kid in school dancing around the youth club to Father Abraham's finest, and SYBG was always on the school jukebox. Great days, Eddie, great days... I want that Sun Ra record. The most obscure record I own is "Neurone Music" by The Deep Freeze Mice. It's a twelve inch, which is part 33 and a third rpm and part 45. The B side is devoted to a Yoko Ono style sound collage. I bought it secondhand many years ago, and I'm buggered if I know why. I enjoyed Matt's piece about Terry Callier and shall be writing to him to apply for a tape forthwith. The song writing idea was fine by me, and I hope Nick(?) no longer feels that he's had the stuffing knocked out of him, rearranged, or in any way disturbed. A man's stuffing is his own private kingdom. Ivo, you must be the only Brazillian not kicking cocnuts about on Copacabana beach in the hope of being signed up by Barry Manilow's scouts. I'm looking forward to ScotlAND AGAINST bRAZIL (there it goes again), I have a thing about Brazilian footballers. I dragged myself out of the house in a flu induced stupor to see Bebeto playing for Deportivo La Coruña. He didn't do much. Ronaldo was jolly entertaining last year. He looks like a potato. Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------