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1. Rocky did a run-in in a Chainz vs Faarooq match where the members of the Nation were all banned from ringside.

2. Mark Henry turned on Ken Shamrock in a tag match shortly before the 1998 Royal Rumble match.

3. Johnson just came back as a babyface after getting injured I believe. There was probably some promo/magazine article to explain the split, but I think that's about it.

He does have a glorious voice though still!

just looking for wrestling books on ibooks and came across Slamthology by john lister

You said it! ;-)

Will spoilers apply to the jubilee?

Will spoilers apply to the jubilee?

Hmm .... depends if you want a rasslin' mag or an Alex Shane newsletter I suppose.

Still better than FSM.

What are relations like between Bret Hart and HHH these days? I'm assuming at least cordial due to Hart's occasional appearances on WWE TV, but is there any evidence in interviews or whatever to suggest they've patched it up?

I have still got that Nitro on tape. Happy days!

The Cat and Ric Flair power struggle comes to an end. Later that night The Cat vs Rick Steiner brawl turns into complete chaos that leads into the miracle six-man tag match.It's one of my favourite half-hours or so of wrestling television ever.

Monsters draw!

This month is actually a really good month for them. Its got four interviews in it. Its enough material to ignore Fin Martin altogether. Nigel McGuinness is especially really good.

I enjoyed this month's edition. Though in the Finlay interview, I found the question "What did you think of Martin Kirby and Martin Stone?" a bit strange. Considering he only wrestled three guys over here, it seemed weird that the third (JD Knight) was omitted.

What was the deal with The Headhunters's WWF run (if you can call it that) as The Squat Team? Why so brief?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzLqDq3PkoM

Is Kevin Nash vs Jeff Jarrett the only singles match combination to contest the WWF, WCW and NWA/TNA heavyweight titles?

Without reading the whole thread (apologies for any overlap), it was a fantastic show, and Doug vs Jody is one of the best tournament finals ever. Special mention for Drew McDonald, who was bloody brilliant as well. The Tommy Boyd thing is a no-brainer, don't know the full details of what happened there but he was a massive asset (insert pun if you must). Of course, the whole 'Queen Mother' episode didn't help. But he added the mainstream credibility. I don't think anything since of this style has come close to the heights of Revival, and the famous adage of "If this doesn't get us onto TV, nothing will" still rings true a decade later. Nonetheless, a great effort. Alex Shane's finest hour.

I dreamt myself and Kevin Nash were hiding from the Dungeon of Doom, who were outside destroying the streets and performing a kind of dance ritual to

Was looking for clips of Slick doing his thing and came across this gem. Rick Martel music video. Who said wrestling was gay.Ian Hitmanhart - you gotta do thread on this man.

From channel-flicking, I spotted they were on the Big Brother show on Channel 5 that isn't actually Big Brother the other day (I know what I mean!).

Rumble's just been confirmed for St Louis.

King Harley Race for a surprise entrant then!

The 2001 World Series made me fall in love with baseball. Sadly I think I peaked too soon with it, nonething since has matched those heights for me. Add me to the club who has seen little of it since it fell off Channel 5. I do enjoy a few hours radio coverage on Sunday afternoons every now and then though. It's pretty relaxing.

I saw this thread over the weekend, but as I was away, typing my thoughts on an iPhone would have been an arse, so I've waited until today.

 

I LOVE The Beatles. I think Zeppelin are probably my favourite band, but if I was forced at gunpoint and told I could only ever listen to one band's output, I'd pick The Beatles.

 

Has anyone been to the BEATLEMANIA museum on the Reeperbahn in Hamburg? It is INCREDIBLE. A five storey tall museum near the Beatlesplatz that tells the story of the band, and it's one of the best museums I've ever been to. I wish I spoke fluent German so I could apply for jobs there. It starts at the top level with their Hamburg career, with loads of memorabilia, goes down into Abbey Road Studios (full replica) and into a room full of all the various merchandise they had in the early 60s, with a panoramic surround-screen room of the Shea Stadium concert. You go down through Strawberry Fields into the Sgt Peppers zone, where you can have your photo taken in the album cover. You progress to the Engine Room of the fucking Yellow Submarine and then down to the giant headphones where you can listen to the differences between the two versions of Let It Be at your leisure. Even the exit signs are brilliant - in German, 'Ausgang', in English 'Hello Goodbye'. YES. Here is the website. If you're a fan, GO. Two hours from Heathrow.

 

Mattyc on page 1 talked about how and that's true of me as well. I really got into them in teenage years, and found that as I discovered each album, somehow I already knew the majority of the songs, without ever having consciously listened to them. It's a weird feeling. They're kind of ingrained in the mind - you know The Beatles without even knowing you know them, and you hear a song and think, 'wait, they did this one as well?'

 

They've been part of my musical knowledge from a very early age, though - one of my first musical memories is in reception (age 4 or thereabouts) at school, and one of the teaching assistants keeping us busy by teaching us the words to 'Yellow Submarine'. Quite a few of the lesser-loved songs have got strong memory connections for me - for example, 'Octopus' Garden' always takes me back to painting my nana's living room walls for her.

 

My favourite album is Sgt Peppers. I know this is akin to a Floyd fan liking Dark Side of the Moon or a wrestling fan liking Savage-Steamboat but it's such a good album. I love every single song on it. I also like Rubber Soul if that makes me seem trendier.

 

One of the most amazing things about them is the fact that no matter how you're feeling, The Beatles have a song that fits perfectly with your mood. Fallen in love? Something (maybe my favourite ever love song). Chilled out and content with life? Here Comes The Sun or Dear Prudence. Angry? Helter Skelter. Lonely? She's Leaving Home. Reflective? In My Life. And so on, and so on, I could go on for ages.

 

Sometimes you don't even know how relevant a song is going to be. I was never a huge fan of 'Yesterday' - it was good, but never a first choice. Then one day, about a week after my ex and I broke up (she dumped me. It was brutal.) I was driving to meet some friends and it came on the radio. The impact it had... that song was written about me, it had to be. I know it wasn't, really, but every word was right - it was exactly how I felt at that time. That, to me, is the mark of truly superlative songwriting.

 

I tried to make a CD of my favourite Beatles songs to put in the car. It ended up being 72 songs long - and that was me being selective. You know the moment at a gig where you hear the first notes of your favourite song, the one you came to hear? I saw McCartney last year and got that feeling about twenty times... I'm going to attempt to do as others have done and add a couple of links, and I will have to try really hard not to turn it into a 60-odd long list of links.

 

So, with that in mind, I'll try not to replicate songs others have linked to.

 

I Want You (She's So Heavy) - one of my favourites. I always stick it one when I'm frustrated. There's something about that riff that appeals to anger.

 

- does anyone else rate this as among their very best? It's a perfect fifties-style rock and roll love song. So simple, but absolutely gorgeous. Love it.

 

- there's so much going on in this one. The lyrics are among the best of the 'weird' ones, the time/key changes really work, and there's

which is awesome purely for having Salma Hayek in a nurse's outfit singing the 'bang bang, shoot shoot' lines.

 

Speaking of Across The Universe, which I also love, there's

that cannot help but give me goosebumps all over the place. Stunning. The original version, of course, is just as stirring and moving. I think 'Let It Be' is one of those ones that's so well-known it's almost dismissed, but IT'S SUCH A GOOD SONG.

 

How do people rate the Love album from a few years ago? I really like it, there are some cracking re-arrangements in there. The best track, I think, is

I'd put this above the original. Seriously, I prefer it.

 

(This is partly because Eric Clapton almost ruined my enjoyment of the original by effectively claiming credit for its quality in his book (my personal interpretation of his words). Damn you, Clapton, you're good, but it's George's song no matter how many solos you did!)

 

And finally,

. How amazing is this song? When people talk about the best Beatles songs, quite often they'll look to the post-live era stuff of Sgt Peppers, Abbey Road, etc. But the early years have so many phenomenally crafted pop songs. Who couldn't love 'Paperback Writer'? Love, love, love it (love is all you need).

 

 

I'll stop now. But I The Beatles, and Frankie Crisp for making this thread.

Late to the party, but I think this is my favourite ever post on this board! Wonderful stuff!

Went to the Wireless Festival on the weekend, and caught a great set from Fight Like Apes. Just been looking through their music videos and found this one, featuring Scotty 2 Hotty, Kid Kash and others. Ha! Any idea what show this is from? I'm assuming it's in Ireland.