Sods Law and the Roses

Sometimes CF can really kick you up the backside - like when you catch a cold on the last day of your IVs. When I went into the outpatients to do my scores I got no change at FEV1 2.3 /  FVC3.3 so it looks like the IVs were completely negated by the cold, gutted :-( So I'm back on 2 weeks of orals (Cipro and Doxycyline, again) to carry me over this chesty cold, and as much running as I can manage in this shitty weather.

Anyway, I did fit in a trip to see the Roses at Heaton park last week, which was brilliant. The Stone Roses are part of my misspent youth, they first broke through when I was about 16...pop music had become really bland at that point and when they first appeared on Top of The Pops (in the same week as The Happy Mondays) it was a seminal moment: finally here was something real after all that bland rubbish, and they were from Manchester as well, fantastic! We're the band any good? After a couple of glasses of cheap red wine in a comedy packed to the rafters metrolink who can tell? But the music and crowd were so happy and positive it seemed to carry everyone away on a nostalgic bubble of happiness that rarely actually happens at these type of concerts, and personally, I thought it was a amazing. :-)

Everyone should have a copy of this album...

Has it really been 20 years since this (their eponymous debut album) first came out? It can't be! As had been said before, they were a guitar band that you could dance to, who looked cute. What more do you need? Apart from some more albums of course :-)

The Stones Roses peaked too soon, but their fusion of guitar based music and dance inspired many other bands such as Oasis, Blur and the Britpop movement of 1995.

• NME's best British album of all time revealed


• The Stone Roses' self-titled 1989 debut album has been voted the best British album of all time in a Sunday newspaper poll.


• In 1989 the critical response was generally positive and today the album is widely considered to be one of the very best British albums released.


• The Stone Roses' eponymous first album has been voted best album of the last 50 years by listeners of the BBC digital station, 6 Music.


• Reni is considered by many to be the best drummer of his generation, and the "single most important drummer in UK indie circles"
  
  
  
  
  Gonna add a link here to a guitar part I never learnt. Kids have it easy these days, at the time the only way to learn songs was to sit with your guitar forever stopping and starting a tape player to learn a riff by ear, this could take hours and even days. nowadays you've got ready made lessons on youtube!