Luving the videos
posted 31st January 2011 by Fanboy Three
The videos are great - specially the one with the mellotron. How come there aren't more reviews?? Come on, Punkettes. Let's give the guy some support (whoever he is).
Photo-shopped drunken hipster
posted 10th January 2011
Great story - great series... but what of this can we believe, is Punk nothing but a photo-shopped image badly drawn by a drunken hipster, is the Vicar a thinly veiled caricature of Peter Gabriel??? None the less, keep the episodes coming!
Hangover
posted 9th January 2011 by justanotherdiCK
Must be some hangover. Hey Punk, how do you wok this spell check thing I've heard about?
Esteemed Company
::posted 14th December 2010 by justanotherdiCK
As one who (whom?) has had the honour of being denied an autograph by the Vicar himself, I am overjoyed to finally have a chance to express my gratitude. As an advocate and overly zealous supporter since
@1972 you may be pleasently surprised to learn that I have single handedly increased the fan base by a factor of at least three persons.An amazing feat if I do say so myself. I have not laughed so hard since I read The Celabrated Frog of Calaveras County, thus putting you Dear Punk in very esteemed company.
Thank You very much.
Answer
::posted 12th December 2010 by The Junebug Effect
Hey there, Chipotle Airlines!
Partial truth to that rumour. Punk was only a wee boy back then. But yes, he was taken up the mizen mast and lashed to it overnight during a surprise nocturnal ocean storm.
Well, well, where shall we start? Like many a record producer, The Vicar seems to have always had quite a temper, and (arguably) a long history of abusing Punk Sanderson, the recent FaceBook imprisonment only a recent episode! I'm wondering about their bizarre relationship. The rumours flying about the kitchen at my Thai restaurant are getting a tad far-fetched.
(By the way, I have a new technique with onions and fish and chips vinegar that transcends continents. You'd be surprised, as it is incorporated into some delectable Thai cuisine.)
So there I am prepping some onions, and Julio and Chef Hazeltine start in on a conversation about The Vicar. The Chef related that The Vicar was the man responsible for recording King Crimson's Earthbound on a cassette tape. Julio chimed in that The Vicar enjoys the Carribean, by the way. Chef Hazeltine added to the story . . .
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" Cape Horn. Circa 1980. The Drake passage. The Vicar is on holiday with a schooner full of musical merrymakers. He is going to record an album with Ian Dury. In addition to Dury and a boy-tiny (possibly four or five year-old) Punk Sanderson, also on board the vessel are Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare and Philippe Petit (the man who highwire walked between the Twin Towers in New York City in 1970-something).
In the cargo hold were crates of Berganot oranges destined for a Papua New Guinea doctor who had created a malaria remedy. In addition to a mysterious British mix desk, The Vicar had acquired a 1941 Blüthner piano, liberated by British forces in WWII.
One evening, Sly & Robbie lit up some spleefs, but only with trepidation. A sudden night squall came up from behind them. The Vicar apparently called for Sanderson take down the main sail so as not to let the sudden storm wreak havoc and possibly capsize the schooner. But Sanderson was too engaged, partaking in the herb with the talented Rhythm Makers.
The Vicar hollered something like: "Put it down, boy. If I ever catch you smoking herbal libations again..." according to legend, Sanderson toked up mightily and merely laughed.
The Vicar, apparently outraged at the todler Sanderson's insolence, grabbed the child and proceeded to scale the mizen boom. The story is told that The Vicar lashed youth Sanderson to the top of the mast -- gale force winds, pelting rain and lightning striking all about! Poor Sanderson, merely a boy, was forced to remain there until the following morning when he was finally cut down under sunny skies and calm seagoing conditions. The Vicar's prized Blüthner, undergoing repairs and rare tunings, its lid removed and propped behind a number of metronomes and a Chamberlain within The Vicars onboard studio, was thrown overboard by a shipmate to save Ian Dury, who himself had gone overboard at one point during the !
sea storm.
Ian Dury and the Blüthner "lid raft" were found a few days later, having drifted in the direction of Antarctica. Dury seems to have had a knack for catching small fish with a strand of piano wire that was wrapped about a piano hinge. "
I see no mention of this bizarre adventure in a biography of Ian Dury, but I'm still Googling the internet for further evidence.
Sly & Robbie
posted 10th December 2010 by Chipotle Airlines
I'm overjoyed (!) to see this site up and running.
I hear The Vicar once tied Punk Sanderson to the mast of his schooner off Cape Horn during a white squall around 1980 after recording sessions with Sly & Robbie.
Any truth to this Vicar rumour?
Irk me!
posted 9th December 2010 by Congregant
Just to mention, perhaps something unique to me?--but websites that play sound upon loading, without my prompting, are an extreme annoyance.
I'm interested in music, so I've always got something playing.
I'm loading your site, but I don't want to hear it until I'm ready to hear it, and ask to hear it.
I'm sure there is much fun here, but as I enter, you spray noise in my face, and irk me.
Not enough Foreplay
posted 7th December 2010 by mcPR
Men! Where's the foreplay?! You've got to build the stuff up before you release it. Get some PR.
Fargin' GREAT!
posted 6th December 2010 by LoNero.net
This was fargin' GREAT! Absolutely loved the humor. Great job!
Drinks are on me
posted 5th December by Alan
Is that really Real World studio or are you having a laugh?
PS. Who's the Vicar?
Untitled
posted 3rd December 2010 by JmechkovE
am i being a bit stupid?
is not the point of this site to promote music?
might it not have been a good idea to get the music sorted first, then all of the peripherals...
Or is it the music that is peripheral?
cool site, though - looking forward to completion...
Editorial Control
posted 1st December 2010 by Vicar Fan #1
great site. looking at the last post, i don't need to ask if you edit the posting to this guestbook.
perhaps it's time to start!!
Untitled
posted 1st December 2010 by Jes E
As a representative of tentative perjoratives i do declare that all irrelative delegates, surrogates, and ingrates commensurate to exacerbate Punk, funk, and a lots of other junk from the long ingratiation of his incarceration due to the psychotic manifestations of one VICAR-MAN.
An unholy amalgamation of cyper peter-pan and uh... pack-i-stans. contraband & why... even a MUSIC MAN???
The Hills are alive with the Vicar mans jive... The cat on the hot tin roof got the cloven hoof! jesus christ superstar in a wimpy bar!!! west side story morning glory???? In jail with the blasting soundtracks of show tunes, dildo balloons, macaroons.. (yes macaroons, don't ask)... but I digress....
Nice looking site
posted 20th November 2010 by bilsabab
Nice looking site, Punk. Look at the wonderful things you can build while in prison.
Lawd have mercy! Good to see this.
posted 19th November 2010 by Kram
The Vicar can finally come clean about everything!
Unburden himself and give Igor, I mean Punk, a raise!
Seriously, nice work.
Awesomeness
posted 19th November 2010 by **PUNK'S_FUTURE_WIFE**
Five beers for the site. Very very very very cool
Congrats
posted 18th November 2010 by Donbledore
as always Punk, wtf, don't give up your day job,
and PLEASE stop playing drums
Narcissism
posted 17th November 2010 by TheVicar
May I suggest, my dear Punk, that we let other people do the reviewing. Nor, I fear, are you that handsome. I, on the other hand...
