Headbang voting results

It was a busy evening at Gary's on Friday night - 8 separate themes to get through before the Finzean curfew. It was a full attendance as well from the Senior members of the Headbangers - with one exception - the absent legend that is DMW was prominent on the Powerpoint agenda presentation, however:

We started as usual with the Obituaries - there have been 24 since the last Headbang - all commented on in previous blog postings - but we featured just 3 of them in video clips:

Ziggy Stardust	Rock and roll suicide
J J Cale	After midnight
Jackie Lomax (Apple)	Sour milk sea

We then had a simple show of hands as to the most significant/most missed and the clear winner was, of course, Ziggy Stardust, who was killed off by Bowie on 3rd July, 1973.

Septuagenarians was next up  and there had been as many as 16 who had crossed this age threshold since the last Headbang. I selected just 10 of these to play:

Robbie Robertson (Band)	The Weight
Randy Bachman (BTO)	You ain't seen nothing yet
Mick Jagger	Sympathy for the Devil
Christine McVie (Fleetwood Mac)	You Make Lovin' Fun
Ronnie Spector (Ronettes)	Be my baby
Tony Joe White	Rainy night in Georgia
Steve Miller	Space Cowboy
Jim McCarty (Yardbirds)	Train kept a rollin'
Billy J Kramer	Trains & Boats & Planes
Georgie Fame	Yeh Yeh
Jeff Wayne (War of the Worlds)
Judith Durham (Seekers)
Jerry Miller (Moby Grape)
David Soul
Mickey Hart (Grateful Dead)
Toni Basil

Again we resorted to a simple show of hands and there were 3 votes each for Robbie Robertson and Randy Bachman, with one each for Mick Jagger, Christine McVie and Ronnie Spector.

Glastonbury 2013 was the next theme and this time there was a full written vote, which resulted in the following pecking order and votes:

1	Elvis Costello	Pump it up	50
2	Alabama Shakes	Hold on	45
3	Arctic Monkeys	Mardy Bum	39
4	Gary Clark Jr	Next door neighbour blues	35
5=	Johnny Marr	How soon is now	31
5=	Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds	Jubilee Street	31
7	Mumford & Sons	Little Lion Man	29
8	Rodriguez	Sugarman	28

On to Ailments. There were some pretty old clips here, ranging from 1958 up to the most recent - 1995, with the following outcome:

1	Led Zeppelin	Dazed & confused	63
2	Black Sabbath	Paranoid	57
3	Peggy Lee	Fever	50
4	John Lennon & Plastic Ono Band	Cold Turkey	43
5	Tom Waits	Heart Attack and Vine	39
6	Jerry Lee Lewis	Rocking Pneumonia and the boogie woogie flu	32
7	Radiohead	The Bends	27
8	Tom Jones	Chills and Fever	13

The 5th theme was Jobs - suggested by Malcolm. The alcohol consumption was rising by now and the voting was starting to get a little ragged. Some people couldn't split a number of the acts, resulting in some half marks here - and perhaps a slightly surprising winner:

1	10 cc	Good morning Judge	50.5
2	Jethro Tull	Teacher	48.0
3	Glen Campbell	Wichita Lineman	46.5
4	Cream	Politician	45.5
5	Waterboys	Fisherman's blues	40.0
6	Jackson Browne	Doctor my eyes	37.0
7	Donovan	Hurdy Gurdy Man	36.5
8	James Taylor	Millworker	20.0

Theme number 6 was the slightly controversial subject of Misogyny in rock. The 10 tracks played were:

Rolling Stones	Under my thumb
Monks	Nice legs shame about her face
Squeeze	Up the junction
Redbone	Witch Queen of New Orleans
Wishbone Ash	Jailbait
David Bowie	Queen Bitch
Rolling Stones	Bitch
Elton John	The bitch is back
Eagles	Witchy woman
Jilted John	Jilted John

The show of hands declared the first two named above as the most misogynist with 4 votes each, with Squeeze also getting a solitary mention.

Just 2 themes left now and the clock was ticking fast towards Stan the Man's planned taxi pick-up at 12:45 am. Trains & Boats & Planes was the penultimate theme, with 3 tracks from each mode of transport played:

Doobie Brothers	Long train running
Jam	Down in the Tube Station at Midnight
Jethro Tull	Locomotive Breath
Doors	Crystal Ship
Madness	Night boat to Cairo
Beach Boys	Sloop John B
Status Quo	Paper Plane
Steve Miller Band	Jet Airliner
Motors	Airport

Another show of hands declared Trains to be the most popular sub-theme, with Locomotive Breath easily the most popular track here.

The last theme of Space had to be a bit hurried, but we did manage a full written vote for this one:

1	Muse	Supermassive black hole	55
2	David Bowie	Space Oddity	50
3	Elton John	Rocket Man	48
4=	Pink Floyd	Interstellar Overdrive	41
4=	Rolling Stones	2000 Light years from home	41
6	Deep Purple	Space Truckin'	35
7	Lou Reed	Satellite of Love	30
8	Steve Miller	Space Cowboy	24

That was it - just time for quick votes for the Top 3 Themes and Top 3 Tracks - plus the traditional team photo - details in the next blog posting, along with some of the linking/cross-thematic tracks, which nobody commented on during the evening.