#8371 - Tue, 25 Jul 2006 05:38:00
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#8373 - Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:05:00
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Helen I agree absolutely. This track from the 1st VISAGE-album is still a fav of mine. I like this song a lot. When I saw this now, I think I have it somewhere on DVD, maybe only a small piece of it. It's funny, how cool the "hightech"-walkman gets used.  A "must have"-piece for everybody of us during that times. Have to look, somewhere this (payed the an extraordinary amount of money) device must lay around. I had the original "!" 1st one from SONY, the best one ever  .... Really nice, I enjoyed the video very much. Is somebody able to give us some explanation about the japanese symbols used in that video? Does it make sense somehow or is this just some nonsense for getting a "japanese touch"? Poyns or Eiichi, can you tell us?
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#8375 - Tue, 25 Jul 2006 17:56:00
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Originally posted by BlueVision: This track from the 1st VISAGE-album is still a fav of mine. Er, Andi, it's not on the first Visage album unless you have some ultra limited edition copy. It's actually taken from Phil Lynott's Solo In Soho album, although irrc nothing-else on there sounded anything like Yello Pearl. I remember picking up a vinyl copy of this album because of the single/TOTP theme and being in awe when I found out that Billy also played on this track...
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#8378 - Tue, 25 Jul 2006 22:35:00
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Originally posted by Si_W: Originally posted by BlueVision: [b]This track from the 1st VISAGE-album is still a fav of mine. Er, Andi, it's not on the first Visage album unless you have some ultra limited edition copy. It's actually taken from Phil Lynott's Solo In Soho album, although irrc nothing-else on there sounded anything like Yello Pearl. I remember picking up a vinyl copy of this album because of the single/TOTP theme and being in awe when I found out that Billy also played on this track...[/b]Not only that, but a re-mix of Yellow Pearl is also included on Phil's second solo album "The Philip Lynott Album". On that imaginatively named record you'll also find the track "Together" which was a single Midge produced and played guitar on. I like that song a lot better than "Yellow Pearl"!
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#8380 - Wed, 26 Jul 2006 18:15:00
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I had a hankering for Yellow Pearl the other day, and went looking for it on iTunes - you can get the "original version" (which I imagine is the one from Solo in Soho) and one labelled "first remix" (which sounds more Top of the Pops).
I love on the original when Midge does this wee backing vocal that goes "We must fight Back!-ack!-ack!-back...!"
PS hello Gwilym.
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#8382 - Wed, 26 Jul 2006 18:48:00
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Originally posted by Joby: I [b]hate Yellow Pearl with a vengence![/b] There's always one! :rolleyes: (lol  )
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#8386 - Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:29:00
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Originally posted by feline1: I had a hankering for Yellow Pearl the other day, and went looking for it on iTunes - you can get the "original version" (which I imagine is the one from Solo in Soho) and one labelled "first remix" (which sounds more Top of the Pops).
I love on the original when Midge does this wee backing vocal that goes "We must fight Back!-ack!-ack!-back...!"
PS hello Gwilym. Hi mate! I have a hankering for this track every so often as well. I wonder if the TOTP remix was ever commercially released, or was it specially edited into that short sequence just for the theme music and not actually put out? By the way, are you the guy from Feline Dream?
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#8389 - Wed, 26 Jul 2006 22:02:00
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Originally posted by Flip Martian: Originally posted by Gwilym: [b]By the way, are you the guy from Feline Dream? He most certainly is... [/b]I'll have to send him my Feline Dream CDs to sign then! Pretty good they are too, by the way.
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#8391 - Wed, 26 Jul 2006 22:24:00
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Originally posted by BlueVision: As I said, I had could swear it's from VISAGE's 1st one. Hi Blue Vision You are nearly right there. The backing track to this song is from the sessions for Visage's 1st one. However, the track was never finished then and never made it to the album. I can't recall who wrote it but the backing track was performed by Midge, Billy and Rusty. IMHO it should have been finished and should have featured on the Visage album. Sometimes you can't change destiny. :rolleyes: Chris C 
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#8393 - Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:41:00
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Originally posted by leggylady: There's always one! Proud to be different!
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#8394 - Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:50:00
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Originally posted by Joby: Originally posted by leggylady: [b]There's always one! Proud to be different![/b]Im the same 
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#8395 - Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:07:00
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Originally posted by Gwilym: Originally posted by Flip Martian: [b] Originally posted by Gwilym: [b]By the way, are you the guy from Feline Dream? He most certainly is...  [/b] I'll have to send him my Feline Dream CDs to sign then!
Pretty good they are too, by the way.[/b]Yes, it's me. Should you so wish, you can keep up to date with my current wretched adventures via http://www.feline1.co.uk and the links thereof... Do you remember Doktor John T. Lindsay? Apparently he and Jupiter Ace are planning on recording and releasing a few Feline covers...
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#8396 - Fri, 28 Jul 2006 01:45:00
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Originally posted by feline1:
Do you remember Doktor John T. Lindsay?
I certainly do but unfortunately we lost contact after he and my sister stopped dating. How is he these days? I've got a couple of his Jupiter Ace CDs knocking around somewhere but haven't heard them for years. Loved the live CD you sent by the way (did you get my 'Thank You' card all those years ago?) I think Industrial Estates is probably my favourite on there- A cracking good track. I've even got the single! 
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#8397 - Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:35:00
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I think I got that, yes. Did you get our 'Fashion Music' and 'Hell and Highwater' EPs? They were the last and probably the best... you can find JTL & Jupiter Ace here: http://p214.ezboard.com/bgregosparlourspopfarcebowen
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#8399 - Sun, 20 Aug 2006 19:06:00
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Originally posted by BlueVision: Is somebody able to give us some explanation about the japanese symbols used in that video? Does it make sense somehow or is this just some nonsense for getting a "japanese touch"? Poyns or Eiichi, can you tell us? The character that the girl wites on the paper door is (I think) the character which means "longevity" and "congratulations". I am not Japanese and so not a native Japanese speaker you see, so have had to look through my kanji dictionary to see what I can find. Plus we are seeing it backwards of course. Eiichi, please correct me if I am wrong. I am actually a little bit uneasy about this song now. Hearing words like "Attack, that's what we like!" (or is it lack?) and seeing the gas mask and the shredded Hinomaru (Japanese flag) is a bit odd.
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#8401 - Sun, 20 Aug 2006 23:32:00
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Chris_C, the track has first been written by Ure and Lynott as an experiment with electronics during Thin Lizzy Japanese tour. Midge then rehearsed it with Ultravox (see Warren's interview to Jonas ), but without success, so Midge then took it to the sessions for the first Phil Lynott LP (and took Billy along to play synths). So the official authors of it are Ure/Lynott. Interesting that the ingle release of "Yellow Pearl" featured song "Girls" as a B-side, which is also totally electronic (and also on LP). The first recording line-up (for LP) was this: Philip Lynott (Vocals, Vocoder, Bass Guitar, Mini Moog, Percussion) Midge Ure (Mini Moog, String Machine, ARP Synthesizer) Billy Currie (ARP synthesizer) Brian Downey (Syndrums) Laureen (Female Voice) Rusty Egan re-recorded drums for the single releases in 1981. The producers of the song were Lynot and Kit Woolven, Midge remixed it for both single releases in 1981, and interesting that for the 2nd (Top of the Pops) release Laureen's vocal contributions were omitted. As for the meaning of the song - as it was written during the Thin Lizzy tour of Japan, it reflecs fear of the Western man in the face of Japanese technological advances, and the words like "attack is what we LACK" mean that Japanese can and will soon coquer the West thru' it and Western world won't be able to resist. For more stuff like this check also "Shake the West Awake" from Landscape. For opposite point of view check "Western Promise" P.S. By the way, one of the girls in the video dressed almost exactly like Midge in "The Thin Wall" video...
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#8402 - Tue, 22 Aug 2006 03:07:00
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Thanks Vladimir. Perfect. I'll re-read that chapter of his autobiography. :rolleyes: It proves how excellent Midge was in those days with the synthesizer, as a songwriter and as a player. Perhaps he should have continued with his synthesizers and not abandon them for his guitar. I'm sure he still has the talent to come up with another synth epic. Chris C 
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#8403 - Thu, 24 Aug 2006 02:28:00
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Originally posted by Vladimir: [QBAs for the meaning of the song - as it was written during the Thin Lizzy tour of Japan, it reflecs fear of the Western man in the face of Japanese technological advances, and the words like "attack is what we LACK " mean that Japanese can and will soon coquer the West thru' it and Western world won't be able to resist. [/QB] Thank you Vladimir and you too leggylady. It is a song I have always liked.
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#101076 - Wed, 12 Dec 2018 22:44:50
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