Playlist
Alice Cooper - No More Mr. Nice Guy - Live! (29/10/2011, Alexandra Palace London)
Alice Cooper - Slicker Than a Weasel (Live)
Alice Cooper - Theatre of Death
Alice Cooper - Singles Real & Imaginary 1965-2023
Alice Cooper - Live ACG Classics 1978-2018
King Crimson - ProjeKct X
Robert Fripp - Let the Power Fall
Robert Fripp - God Save the Queen/Under Heavy Manners
Up for another busy day...
This morning, I compiled a companion to yesterday's Alice Cooper Group set, by putting together a set of the classic material from the original band's repertoire but played live on solo tours between 1978 and 2018 and I also updated my multi disc set of the Coop's "Singles Real & Imaginary", the last time I'd done so having been back in 2017......
Done and it soundtracked the day's driving...
To Jane and Bob's just before 11 to pick up Olly for his Xmas present...
We were off on a two hour drive down to Dumfries, for Stephen Dobbie's Testimonial Match - a Queens XI versus a Scotland Legends XI...
We parked next to the Queens Legends statue outside the ground...
Here it was at its unveiling, Dobbie on the left...
Besides Stephen Dobbie, the other two Queens legends are fellow striker, Billy Houliston, the only Quuens player to have been selected to play for Scotland (they won all the games Houliston played in) and goalkeeper, Allan Ball, who played 579 games in goal for the South, including 507 in a row - he was booked just once, for "blaspheming on Christmas Day"...
Into the cafeteria for lunch...
The line ups...
The main stand...
The views from the office this afternoon...
...erm...
..and we were being constantly dripped on from the roof...
Oh well...
Out came the players...
And, within no time, Scotland were 3-0 up - their squad, in the main, younger and fitter but it was good to see all the old Queens boys once again...
Scott Brown had organised the Scotland Legends team and had told Dobbie in the run up to the match that he would be bringing him down at some point...
He was true to his word...
Penalty to Queens...
Suitably dispatched by Mr Dobbie, much to the crowd's delight...
At half time it was 4-1 to Scotland (you don't see that very often)...
As the subs continued, the Queens team was getting slightly younger in the second half but, soon, it was 6-1...
Then, a second goal - a deft flick from Dobbie out to the right wing, a cross into the box and the slightly portly but still skillful footballer (and Blackpool PE teacher) David McNiven finished nicely from close range...
One more goal from Scotland made it 7-2 at the end - special mention must go to 58 year old Colin Hendry, who played sweeper for almost the entire game...
Top performance indeed...
A lap of honour and some autograph signing...
...Dobbie's two sons also in the action...
Probably the best player I've sever seen "live"...
And that was it - a great send off...
An hour and half or so up the M74 and we were soon at Olly's flat in Finnieston...
Flatmate Jamie was away on a cruise...
We were given a tour...
As regards the record player, we were advised "the needle fell off"...
Oops..
Out and round to nearby Ashoka for a top notch tea...
Prawn starter for Anne...
Shared platter for me and Olly...
Followed by three of the best curries ever...
...with comedy provided by the non stop kookaburra-esque laughing and snorting (that's probably an insult to kookaburras to be honest) by the guy off in the background here...
Back to the flat, bidding farewell to the boy and a drive home...
By the time we arrived, 80 Alice Cooper songs had soundtracked the 4.5 hours total drive...
Still under the weather with the cold, I retired reasonably early...
A top day...
Highlight of the Day : Out with Olly for the Dobbie Testimonial and a top notch Indian...
Today's New Music:-
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