Black In Time

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blackinjac
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Black In Time

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We all, it seem's from time to time reminisce about the good old days , but if you could drop back to a Stranglers gig and do one again in particular , which one would it be ? I have great memories of Livingstone in 1989 . The session before with a crowd of barmy jocks, who were extremely welcoming , the guy who threatened the landlord to put the Stranglers on the juke box, then belted out the opening to 5 minutes with his fists on the table , as around half a dozen pints leaped off the other end , the gig of course , all i can remember is 'Ships that pass in the Night ' with Hugh leading a sycronised 'hey' with the crowd ,magic, a dodgy nightclub , sleeping in the hire car with newspapers for blankets, a game of 50 a side football the following morning with a load of Bowie fans who turned up early to que for tickets , and then driving to Newport Sth Wales for the next gig , getting there just as the lads were getting off the coach.....Great times , great people ....
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October 79 @ the Rainbow, Raven backdrop, best gig ever, I'm sure this has something to do with me being an impressionable 15 year old, but nothing has come close since. :twisted:
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I can't talk about gigs in the 70s but one thing you don't witness that often these days is that static electricity that seems to trickle through the crowd at a Stranglers gig - particularly just before the band enter the stage and Waltzinblack fires up



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It taught me how to laugh again"
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blackinjac wrote:We all, it seem's from time to time reminisce about the good old days , but if you could drop back to a Stranglers gig and do one again in particular , which one would it be ? I have great memories of Livingstone in 1989 . The session before with a crowd of barmy jocks, who were extremely welcoming , the guy who threatened the landlord to put the Stranglers on the juke box, then belted out the opening to 5 minutes with his fists on the table , as around half a dozen pints leaped off the other end , the gig of course , all i can remember is 'Ships that pass in the Night ' with Hugh leading a sycronised 'hey' with the crowd ,magic, a dodgy nightclub , sleeping in the hire car with newspapers for blankets, a game of 50 a side football the following morning with a load of Bowie fans who turned up early to que for tickets , and then driving to Newport Sth Wales for the next gig , getting there just as the lads were getting off the coach.....Great times , great people ....
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theraven1979 wrote:I can't talk about gigs in the 70s but one thing you don't witness that often these days is that static electricity that seems to trickle through the crowd at a Stranglers gig - particularly just before the band enter the stage and Waltzinblack fires up



Jim
Yep...pipe n slippers stuff now..well since PR left...either that or it's age....

but I can't decide between The Raven tour,WwtW tour,The Gospel gig and the La Folie tour. I was smitten. :smt007 ..one thing though,the crowds started to
lessen throughout that sequence of gigs... :?
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