HW: Metal shield

[Tim]

~eliminator~,definitely not as good as the early stuff "look...we can play crappy pop too"
tim
Tom Clark wrote:
 >
 > That was to my contribution to the 80's drivel thread - The Thompson Twins,
 > who I always considered to be putrid.....along with all others mentioned
 > here previously.  ZZ Top were OK until their "Give me all your lovin" LP,
 > whatever the name of it was, then went downhill from there, IMO.....think
 > MTV had anything to do with it all?
 >
 >
 > ----- Original Message -----
 > From: "K Henderson" <henderson.120 at OSU.EDU>
 > To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
 > Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 6:19 PM
 > Subject: Re: HW: Metal shield
 >
 >
 > >I just ordered it from their web site...sounded like something to
 > have...How
 > >large is this thing anyway,
 >
 > Big.  Heavy.
 >
 > >and what does it look like...
 >
 > See Doremi.
 >
 > >Their web site also lists this @ £29.49 (plus £1 postage!).
 >
 > If they're gonna send it to Louisiana (?) from the UK for one quid, you're
 > getting a good deal!!  Probably cost them a full tenner (or more) in
 > airfreight.
 >
 > Grakkl (FAA), who doesn't have one, 'cause I already have two copies of
 > Undisclosed Files, with slightly different booklets/tray cards, and don't
 > really need a third, big heavy metal thing or no, and who has never heard of
 > Matt Bianco or Basia, and thought Blancmange was a meringue-like dessert
 > treat that managed to defeat Angus Podgorny for the Wimbledon title in c.
 > 1970, and finally who thinks that the Thompson Twins' performance of 'Hold
 > Me Now' on a classic episode of Saturday Night Live was the single most
 > embarrassingly putrid live music display one could ever imagine, but who
 > also remembers a shockingly pathetic and utterly confused ZZ Top performance
 > on one of those "Fill-in-the-blank-Aid" live simulcast TV broadcasts from
 > various parts of the world that were so popular (and appropriately so) in
 > that horrific decade we've been discussing and what is a favourite target of
 > mine to perpetually rail against.