Confessions of a smoker
LIKE most of us born in the mid-20th century, I was weaned largely on cigarette smoke. My parents and grandparents were partial to a regular gasper and it seemed that everywhere … Continue readingConfessions of a smoker
Author: Alan Ashworth
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George Thorogood: If You Don’t Start Drinkin’ (I’m Gonna Leave)
Another superb selection of film clips to accompany a Thorogood boozing song and end our musical pub crawl. It’s been fun (hic!)
Billy Currington: Pretty Good At Drinkin’ Beer
You and me both, Billingtons.
Bonnie Prince Billy: I am Drinking Again
‘I’m on my seventh cold glass of gin’. Good going, Mr Oldham. From the 2006 album The Letting Go.
Jeff Beck Group: I’ve Been Drinking
Rodders vocalises on this late sixties hit, with Beck on guitars, Ronnie Wood on bass and Micky Waller, drums.
George Thorogood and the Destroyers: I Drink Alone
Some great movie clips to go with this further selection from Mr Thorogood.
Mick Farren: I Want a Drink
Another suggestion from the eminent Wilkologist Andy Marshall. Johnson’s percussive guitar is all over this selection from Farren’s 1978 LP Vampires Stole My Lunch Money.
My wife the pilot
ONE of the Monty Python sketches that I used to find terribly amusing involves Terry Jones’s character Mr Chigger turning up for a flying lesson and finding the instructor Mr … Continue readingMy wife the pilot
Richard Thompson: Down Where The Drunkards Roll
Thirty-odd years after the song appeared on the Bright Lights album, Thompson plays it live, ably assisted by Loudon Wainwright III and Suzanne Vega.
Rab Noakes: Drunk Again
From his eponymous album on A & M Records (no relation) released in 1972. I taped this from the John Peel programme at the time and must have played it … Continue readingRab Noakes: Drunk Again