Sesh or Ozzy?

[Von Halen]

Have you even got a passport yet?

Yes fucker, I have a passport!

[ELVIS]

Does it have stripes ??

[envy_me]

That's like asking someone who lives in Manhattan if they know Bill...

Glasgow isn't exactly New York...

[Seshmeister]

No it's more like a mixture between Boston and Detroit.

It looks quite like an East coast US city as it's a grid system, so much so that they shot the World War Z movie there playing the part of Philadelphia.





They needed 2000 zombie extras and 3000 turned up.

The SM asked me to pick her up in the car right in the middle of the city while this was going on. All the stop signs and road signs were Philly ones, half the city center was cordoned off, there was fire and rubble, burning cars and extras everywhere.

When I finally got through to her she was standing under a huge US flag at the building being used for City Hall.

She got in the car and said 'What took so long?'.

'The fucking movie, why did you ask me in today?'

'What movie...?'

Unbelievable.

[vandeleur]

Have not seen the film , tho enjoyed the book . When I saw on the news they were filming it in Glasgow I was like how the fuck they gonna do that .
I've been to Glasgow a few times , once for work and a couple of piss ups. Fuck I actually played here a couple of times to.
It reminds me of Liverpool , probably stating the obvious here but the city center has that old grand building architecture you get in Newcastle and Liverpool , these old industrial cities .
Though Sesh you may be aware of this being as you actually live there

[VHscraps]

Glasgow isn't exactly New York...

This is true - although, it has played New York in several movies (as well as Philly, as Sesh said).

The West of the City Centre is actually more like San Francisco, very hilly - which is why it has also played ... San Francisco. In a couple of movies, but this is Cloud Atlas.

[envy_me]

I meant when it comes to size. The chances are bigger that somebody is gonna know somebody in a small city then in a big city.

[twonabomber]

Hey Sesh, one of my favorite bands is from Scotland. Del Amitri. Do you know them?

One of the local stations played the shit out of Last To Know, or whatever it was called.

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band was big here in Cleveland. WMMS played them all the time.

That's like asking someone who lives in Manhattan if they know Bill...

I can't tell you how many times one of my immigrant callers at Progressive asked if I knew Drew Carey. They'd find out we were based near Cleveland and that was one of the next questions.

[envy_me]

You should hear Some other suckers parade, Roll to me, Not where it's at, Driving with the breaks on, This side of the morning, Be my downfall, etc...

[DLR Bridge]

One of the local stations played the shit out of Last To Know, or whatever it was called.

That's department store music. Every time I'm trapped in a Macy's or Nordstrom's and I'm complaining just as much as my kids to get the hell out of the store, Last To Know or Roll To Me is usually playing.

[Seshmeister]

Never ran into Del Amitri, not my taste.

Surprisingly few rock bands have been successful out of Glasgow considering how many have tried.

Someone wrote a book about it recently and my band got a few paragraphs so that shows you the paucity...

Nazareth, Gun, The Almighty, Texas, Alex Harvey, Simple Minds and then I'm starting to struggle. Do Franz Ferdinand count?

The local Indie bands seem to have done better over the years.

[envy_me]

What kind of music do you play? Do you have any songs you can post?

[Seshmeister]

That's department store music. Every time I'm trapped in a Macy's or Nordstrom's and I'm complaining just as much as my kids to get the hell out of the store, Last To Know or Roll To Me is usually playing.

I would classify Del Amitri as White Soul which has been the mainstream music in the UK for the last 30 years or so IMHO and not helped by all the TV talent contests. It's just about the least interesting form of music you can get, I ignore it. It's not even interesting enough to dislike - it's nothing to me, background noise.

I did heard Rainbow in a UK Wal Mart(ASDA) once which was kind of bizarre.

[ELVIS]

I meant when it comes to size. The chances are bigger that somebody is gonna know somebody in a small city then in a big city.

I would think Glasgow is easily comparable to one of the major boroughs of New York...

[Von Halen]

Look at Sesh. Using "insular" and "paucity" in the same thread!