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I worry sometimes about you Matt, I really do. Seek help immediately.

Hey Matt, do you get down to Newtown a lot? If so let's catch up for a newtown shoot - hey, if this takes off we could just have a meet in newtown one night (noodles at the happy chinese noodle place) - I'll post it in meeting ideas. Let me work out a date.

Very nice composition Matt... I guess that was one of the things you were aiming for...

However... I feel compelled to ask... Cat Steven's what is still alive?

(Warning: Apostrophe Man is alive and well...)

Who cares

Did he die?

nito wrote:Did he die?

No, he changed his name and became a full time Arab

Really; I learn something new every day.

Justin
Sounds good!
Leek...You got me man!

Matt. K wrote:Justin
Sounds good!
Leek...You got me man!

Actually, I think I got the graffitti artist... You got it right...

Pardon me for asking.... but who is Cat Stevens...

Just Kidding Cat Stevens fans

Well spotted, a good shot. I like it.

Who is Cat Stevens? A pop/rock star IIRC?

Cheers
Steffen.

Whoops Mark, just saw your posts... Is this a contentious issue? If so, please let me know, I love to ridicule people for their taste in music...

Cheers
Steffen.

This is an fine example of seeing a subject. Matt excels at this. Stuff that I might notice, but probably wouldn't even think to photograph. Matt takes the shot.

And not only do we have a good shot technically, but one which elicits responses and interest.

Talk about making something out of very little. Inspirational Matt.

And we get a punctuation discussion (has anybody read Eats, Roots and Leaves?) and a Cat Stevens discussion. Who cares about the Cat? I do. Love his work.

Greg B wrote:Has anybody read Eats, Roots and Leaves?

Is that the Aussie version of the book Greg?

I like the photo, Matt. Well spotted.

Yeah, I'm a massive fan of Cat Stevens (have all albums) and he has been called Yusef Islam since 1978 when he converted and became a Muslim.

For the first time in nearly 30 years there are strong rumours that he is going to make an album again with all profits going to humanitarian cause.

Onya, Cat

Cheers

Michael

leek wrote:

Greg B wrote:Has anybody read Eats, Roots and Leaves?

Is that the Aussie version of the book Greg?

Good work John.

Yes, the book is actually called

"Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation" by Lynne Truss. It is a great read too. Most enjoyable.

I just noticed in the paper - Today is Cat Stevens' birthday!!!!! Born 1948.

Matt. K wrote:Cat Stevens is alive

So is Elvis! I saw Elvis is a UFO? Remember the days of the old school yard? Stop, stop now, it's taking me back to Arthur Phillip High School, Parramatta, circa 1975. Don't blame me, blame it on the boogie...

Wasn't Cat Stevens refused entry into the US of A because
of him being a suspect for his muslim way ?

Anway is songs are great.

Cheers,
CD

Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam)
Born in London to a Swedish mother and a Greek father on July 21 1947, Steven Demetre Georgiou became interested in music in his teens, began performing under the name Steve Adams in 1965, and eventually became known to the world as songwriter and singer Cat Stevens before converting to Islam and becoming Yusuf Islam in 1977.

At the peak of his musical career in the 1970's, Cat Stevens had eight consecutive gold albums and 10 hit singles in the United Kingdom and 14 in the United States. His best-known albums include Tea for the Tillerman, Teaser and the Firecats, Catch Bull at Four, and Buddah and the Chocolate Box. His most beloved songs include anthems such as "Peace Train," "Moon Shadow," "Morning has Broken," "Father and Son," and "Oh Very Young."

Stevens retired from the music world soon after accepting the faith of Islam. He subsequently married, had five children, auctioned off his possessions, and founded a Muslim school in London. A vocal opponent of the war in Iraq, Yusuf Islam is on a U.S. government security watch list and is barred from entering the United States.

His songs are still crap

Oh he also called for the death of Salman Rushdie for writing "The Satanic Verses"

And for those of you who think otherwise, he did NOT write or sing or do any sort of a cover version of Cats in the Cradle.........

Stuart

Harry Chapin, Singer / Songwriter

Born: 7 December 1942
Birthplace: New York, New York
Died: 16 July 1981 (automobile crash)
Best Known As: Singer of the 1972 hit "Taxi"
Chapin was a folk-rock troubadour of the baby boom generation. He was particularly known for his "story-songs"; his signature hit "Taxi" (1972) was the story of a disillusioned cabbie meeting an old lover, and "Cat's In the Cradle" (1974) the cautionary tale of an absentee father. Chapin also was a social activist for many causes, particularly world hunger. He died at age 38 in a traffic accident on New York's Long Island Expressway.

Now there was a singer songrighter and life cut tragically short.

And if I ever lose my mouth,
all my teeth North and South,
and if I ever lose my mouth, I won't have to talk............

I love how this lyric is followed by a guitar riff instead of words (as is the case in the rest of the song).
Long live the Cat. Sorry Dug I guess I'm showing my age!

Don't get me wrong I think sadly the Cat lost the plot long ago. But his music will live on.

Well agent 99 I am probably older than you

I can remember Matthew and son being released

Must admit that I have been a fan of the Cat for years - proof, I have the following albums:

Back to Earth
Buddha and the Chocolate Box
Catch Bull at Four
Foreigner
Izitso
Matthew & Son
Mona Bone Jakon
Numbers
Saturnight
Tea for the Tillerman
Teaser and the Firecat
New Masters
Live

Teaser and the Firecat was the first record I ever bought (vinyl of course) but I'd have to say Catch Bull at Four is the favourite album of my whole music collection. Ruins, The House of Freezing Steel, The Boy with the Moon and Star on His Head. Does it get any better? Awesome. Apart from those two albums, I've only got Izitso, Back to Earth and a Greatest Hits Collection, though I have the music for all his songs and play them regularly on guitar.

I sadly doubt, if he ever returns to his music, that he could ever recreate the magic that we all still love.

That's when music was music.

Matt. K wrote:That's when music was music.

True, true. As a musician, I believe music (popular music at least) died in the mid 80s. "Music" nowadays is not really music, it is mass produced mindless noise, produced by talentless stooges for huge recording companies.

Bring back Scott Joplin, Al Jolson and Louis Gottschalk.

Max

christiand wrote:Wasn't Cat Stevens refused entry into the US of A because
of him being a suspect for his muslim way ?

Anway is songs are great.

Cheers,
CD

To clarify this point, Cat Stevens (aka Yusef Islam) gives millions of dollars he still receives in royalties to a charity he set up years ago in aid of those worse off, including muslim kids in poor countries. He also donates much money to other charities and it was thought that one of those charities aids terrorists (proven to be false later) and that's why he was refused entry to the U.S.

My fave albums are Tea for the Tillerman, Teaser and the Firecat and Mona Bone Jakon

Cheers

Michael

ozimax
Who the hell are they?

Matt. K wrote:ozimax
Who the hell are they?

Well, what about Slim Dusty? Chad Morgan? The great vocalists of our (70s) time, not to forget Ray "I-saw-elvis-in-a-ufo" Stevens, all contemporaries with the Cat himself....

Don't you mean Janice Joplin?

Actually I mean the Jackson Five, Earth Wind and Fire, BoneyM, and all those other 70s icons....

ozimax wrote:Actually I mean the Jackson Five, Earth Wind and Fire, BoneyM, and all those other 70s icons....

Are you going to pay for my therapy sessions to try and forget those artists again?

There has always been bad music it just hopefully disappears into the mist of time.

Bad taste warning! have a bucket handy


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Dug wrote:

ozimax wrote:Actually I mean the Jackson Five, Earth Wind and Fire, BoneyM, and all those other 70s icons....

Are you going to pay for my therapy sessions to try and forget those artists again?

There has always been bad music it just hopefully disappears into the mist of time.

Sorry, I forgot Leif Garrett and the Bay City Rollers...

I looked... couldnt find the metallica cover that was done by a photographer being artistic.. it was his own sperm with cows blood and egg

that was pretty bad

Tim