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Re: Your most embarrassing Simply Red moment
redorro - 14.04.2006, 07:12Your most embarrassing Simply Red moment
Turning up for brekkie yesterday morning at my Hotel in Melbourne, they were playing My Perfect Love. (Nope, not Perfect Love :wink: ) That added extra value than being the 'single' version. What a way to start the day. Perfect, love.
So, come on. I know you get just as excited as I do, when you hear Simply Red playing in the most unexpected situations. And like me, you sit or stand still and sing to the words until the music is finished, no matter how embarrassing it might be. :-D :-D
I've been out of town (away from home) a fair bit lately. Come home on weekends and log on to see what exciting Simply Red stuff has been happening.
Using a strange PC (away from home) I find it extremely difficult to find this site when searching the WWW. Michi, I have search for Simply Red and get sick of searching pages and pages of returned searches. I've tried Google and MSN to no avail. Any suggestions? :-D I can never remember this sites name. I use my favourites or history when I am on my own PCs.
What's your most embarrassing Simply Red moment of recent or past? 8)
Pat
Re: Your most embarrassing Simply Red moment
simplymichi - 15.04.2006, 09:48Re: Most embarrassing Simply Red moments?
redorro wrote:
Using a strange PC (away from home) I find it extremely difficult to find this site when searching the WWW. Michi, I have search for Simply Red and get sick of searching pages and pages of returned searches. I've tried Google and MSN to no avail. Any suggestions? :-D I can never remember this sites name. I use my favourites or history when I am on my own PCs.
Hi Pat!
Yes, I know it's not easy to remember the address of our forum (http://redbox.iphpbb.com). Would love to have an address which is more memorable. In the meantime you can quite easily find it with Google. Just type in "unofficial simply red forum" (in quotation marks) ... and there you are! :wink:
My most embarrassing Simply Red moments? Sitting there listening to Simply Red music with head-phones on... While I'm finally forgetting that I'm not the only person in the world I start singing along in a bit of awful karaoke style... all of a sudden recognizing that my brother is in the same room :shock: :oops: How long has he been there?!? Of course he can't hide that he's laughing :?
...it can happen again :wink:
Re: Your most embarrassing Simply Red moment
redorro - 17.04.2006, 08:13
Thanks so much Michi. I can remember that one. Will try it again tomorrow.
I think most of our families think we are strange with the way we do Simply Red stuff. My family thought I was weird, think I'm weird :lol: and now just say, "oh well, we have to live with it, it has been going on too long now to be a short term fad".
And haven't we all been caught singing along to the Simply Red music in the supermarket????????????? :D :D :D
Pat
Re: Your most embarrassing Simply Red moment
sasred - 17.04.2006, 09:12
Oh, I yowl along to any SR tune I hear, wherever I hear it. Gets me strange looks, but then I get those anyway. :alien :-} The lady that works the registers at our cafeteria at lunch loves me--she always has on the one local station that plays old funk and R&B. If something comes on that I know, I not only sing, I dance. Swinging food to-go trays around in the process. Free entertainment. :D
So I don't get embarrassed by that sort of thing. I don't give a toss what people think of that.
My most embarrassing SR moment happened after November's Birmingham concert. I won't say any more on forum. Ian was *pinches fingers together* THIS CLOSE to being a witness though. Which would have made it ten times worse... :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:
Thankfully my mental ducks are more in a row now. :roll:
Re: Your most embarrassing Simply Red moment
simplymichi - 17.04.2006, 10:35
sasred wrote:
My most embarrassing SR moment happened after November's Birmingham concert. I won't say any more on forum. Ian was *pinches fingers together* THIS CLOSE to being a witness though. Which would have made it ten times worse... :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:
Thankfully my mental ducks are more in a row now. :roll:
Now you just aroused my curiosity!!! :D
Re: Your most embarrassing Simply Red moment
sasred - 18.04.2006, 07:43
simplymichi wrote: sasred wrote:
My most embarrassing SR moment happened after November's Birmingham concert. I won't say any more on forum. Ian was *pinches fingers together* THIS CLOSE to being a witness though. Which would have made it ten times worse... :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:
Thankfully my mental ducks are more in a row now. :roll:
Now you just aroused my curiosity!!! :D
Check your PM's. :wink:
Re: Your most embarrassing Simply Red moment
linmark - 18.04.2006, 13:59
redorro wrote: Thanks so much Michi. I can remember that one. Will try it again tomorrow.
I think most of our families think we are strange with the way we do Simply Red stuff. My family thought I was weird, think I'm weird :lol: and now just say, "oh well, we have to live with it, it has been going on too long now to be a short term fad".
And haven't we all been caught singing along to the Simply Red music in the supermarket????????????? :D :D :D
Pat
Yes Pat, that was me again singing in the supermarket !
This time it was from the Home album, "Sunrise", and I could not
believe me ears !!!!
Had to tell all the cashiers who was singing and the CD name.
Love,
Lin xx
:oops:
Re: Your most embarrassing Simply Red moment
night nurse - 19.04.2006, 03:33
Hi guys~ just back from Las Vegas and had to see what was going on here as well.
I too sing along anywhere to any Simply Red song. Did "Stars" in Karaoke in Vegas! Totally fun!
Lin~ I hear "Sunrise" quite a bit in the stores here. It must be on their rotation of piped in music. Holding Back the Years comes on a bit as well.
Good to be back~
Angie
Re: Your most embarrassing Simply Red moment
redorro - 20.04.2006, 09:30
I'm very curios Sas. Don't temp us with those tantilisers.
:lol:
Pat
Re: Your most embarrassing Simply Red moment
sasred - 20.04.2006, 15:14
redorro wrote: I'm very curios Sas. Don't temp us with those tantilisers.
:lol:
Pat
Ahhhhhh...*laughs* This takes me back to that time I gave you the business on the old boards...
Thought I already told you this one, though...but just in case I didn't, watch yer e-mail. :wink:
Re: Your most embarrassing Simply Red moment
MARTHA JEAN - 20.04.2006, 17:49
WHEN EVER I HEAR A SIMPLY RED TUNE, IN THE MARKET, STORES OF ALL SORTS AND ON THE RADIO , I JUST STAND THERE HOLD MY HANDS UP AND SAY," THAT'S MY SWEET BABE SINGING." MOST BEINGS LOOK AT ME IN A ODD WAY, BUT I DON'T CARE, I HAVE TO STOP AND GIVE MICK HIS DUE.
WHAT A DELIGHT IT IS TO HEAR HIM IN DIFFERENT PLACES.
Re: Your most embarrassing Simply Red moment
vialattea - 22.04.2006, 14:52
Since I'm an Italian (= a nut) my British friends let me get away with quite a lot... :wink:
I love to embarass my 8 year old (proper) English son in front of his friends, so I sing to him when we walk home from school. Usually R&B or Frank Sinatra, to teach the boy some good stuff...
That particular day I was in a jolly good mood since I had seen a SR concert only two days before, so I even added a little dance to my singing of THE RIGHT THING chorus....
After a while of this I happened to turn around and see to my horror that the headteacher was watching the show...rather amused...
:oops:
That was too much even for me!! :roll:
Just for the record my boy thought it was hilarious.
And now Sas... what about sharing your story with me as well?!
ciao
Viols
Re: Your most embarrassing Simply Red moment
sasred - 25.04.2006, 09:36
*long, gutteral sigh*
I suppose if I don't cough up a confession on here, I will be doing PM's 'til the end of time, so...I did tease, now it's time to pay the piper. And demonstrate that I am very, very human...*buries face in hand, poking one eye out between fingers*
Don't know how much of the banter any of you caught on the official boards pre-crash that occurred among myself, my friends, and Steve, but I'm sure all of you are quite aware I like him. So to get responses from him on the boards had me over the moon every time, as you might imagine. Well, two of my friends and myself had the chance to see SR in the UK in November, and he knew we were coming. Various posts, and from what I knew about SR concerts in general, had me really thinking we'd get the chance to have a chat with him, however brief, after at least one of the shows. I was REALLY looking forward to that. More than words can express.
Long story short: we picked the wrong gigs. Didn't get to meet any of the band members I'd been wanting to, except for Ian (also wanted to meet Pete and Dave)--and the time with Ian was cut short by a surly bus driver. Didn't even get to say what I wanted to to HIM.
Because I'd built my hopes up so high, the crash was just as hard. I broke down crying my eyes out right in the middle of the NEC's back parking lot. With several onlookers. I credit Rose Tattoo and Knokkak for not disowning me right then and there--it embarrasses me just mentioning it; what they must have felt standing next to me...???? Rizzie especially was a champ--she provided the shoulder to cry on.
So...almost 6 months later...with time to reflect...
I realize I was acting like a spoiled brat. 1) I got to see the band play live. Something a lot of my fellow Yanks were denied this time out, and something some SR fans have NEVER had the chance to do. 2) I got to meet Mick after BOTH shows; again, an opportunity many SR fans would sell their firstborn for. And...
3) At the end of the day, all I am is a FAN like everybody else here. I should not go into these situations expecting a damn thing. I used to say this all the time on the old boards. That anything beyond the music is just icing on the cake. And I do believe that. I appreciate very much the time that I've been granted by the band members I've had contact with.
I guess I just went into the situation being a bit naive to the workings of it, and also being spurred forth by what I thought was a fledgling connection on a more human level. I now figure I probably read too far into it, as I can be quite guilty of doing (just ask any of my friends here)--I'm a bit TOO psychologically minded for my own good. I am just one of the masses of fans who's been bumped up a notch--a couple of the band members at least know me by name and by my crazy script now, but that doesn't make me any more important than any of you in their lives. I'm just a fan, and I should keep my place. I should appreciate what I've gotten and move on with my life. If fate should let me meet these guys sometime, fine, but I shouldn't get bent out of shape if I don't.
Following this band is one of my hobbies. It should not be a source of distress. So I'm very careful about how involved I let myself get these days. I don't want a repeat of the above.
So there you are. There's the chink in my armor. Underneath the confident nutjob exterior I present to half the known world is an anxious, neurotic fool who needs to get a life. :-(
No sympathies please; I earned this guilt. And at least I learned from the experience. So it was useful. I feel like I'm a better person (and happier fan) for it.
Re: Your most embarrassing Simply Red moment
vialattea - 25.04.2006, 16:14
sasred wrote:
So there you are. There's the chink in my armor.
I know you probably won't like what I'm about to write as you are quite a tough girl but HOW SWEEEET YOU ARE!!!
If I were Steve or a SR member I'd be honoured to have a fan like you.
I'm not going to say anything else here, I know the feeling, it comes from a past long gone but I remeber it pefectly well; somebody touches your life and you long for the the chance to say "thank you".
I'll shut up now.
:flower :flower :flower
V
Re: Your most embarrassing Simply Red moment
MARTHA JEAN - 25.04.2006, 19:08
MY DEAR SAS, WHAT YOU WANTED WAS JUST AS NATURAL AS BREATHING. WE ALL WANT THAT.
YOU'RE THE BEST, DO YOU KNOW THAT? I'VE LEARNED SO MUCH FROM YOU AND IF I WAS THERE, I'D BE JUST LIKE LIZ AND COMFORT YOU TOO.
ONE MUST JUST GO WITH THE FLOW AND WHO KNOWS, MAYBE YOU'LL GET TO SEE HIM NEXT TIME. TIMING IS EVERYTHING.
I WILL SEND OUT VERY GOOD THOUGHTS AND THINK VERY HARD FOR YOU AND STEVE TO MEET, EVEN IF IT'S FOR A FEW MINUTES. USUALLY WHEN I DO SEND OUT GOOD THOUGHTS THINGS DO OCCUR.
I HAVE TO CONFESS THAT I HAVE VERY DEEP, PERSONAL AND LOVING FEELINGS FOR MICK, BUT JUST SEEING HIM UP CLOSE AT THE CONCERTS WAS ENOUGH FOR ME. ONE MUST TAKE WHAT THEY CAN GET
.
CRYING IS A NATURAL REPONSE TO PAIN AND IT CLEANSES OUT THE BODY, SO DON'T EVER BE ASHAMED OF DOING IT.
I THINK, " YOU'RE THE TOPS, YOU'RE THE TOWER OF PIZA." YOU'RE THE TOPS, YOU'RE THE MONA LISA".
DON'T EVER FORGET IT. FONDLY, MARTHA JEAN
Re: Your most embarrassing Simply Red moment
simplymichi - 25.04.2006, 19:34
Hey, Shannon! Forgive yourself, you're only human and looking back it's just a tiny lil moment in a long lasting exciting life ;)
Don't we all know moments like that that we would like to rewind to start anew? And don't forget it was a moment filled with adrenalin and whatever other hormons.
My fingers are crossed for your next chances!!! How many days are left?!
x x x Michi
PS: You're a girl, you can blame it on the period ;) *just kidding* :devil
*** number of the day = 119 ***
*** tickets for Gelsenkirchen and Hannover arrived today ***
Re: Your most embarrassing Simply Red moment
sasred - 25.04.2006, 20:22
Thanks, ladies...*blushing furiously*
Via...you nailed it, I really wanted to thank him in person for all the great stuff he'd done for my friends and myself, a card or a post on a forum seems inadequate somehow. I'm honored that someone like him is in our band--takes time out for all the fans who pay him mind, and remembers his closest followers well. Did that lesson with Martijn, and kept myself and my friends rolling on the old boards by reading our henhouse chatter and throwing in his two cents every now and again. (The comment on Liz's hobby--PRICELESS. Still makes me laugh every time I think of it.)
I mean, there's another example of how I was acting spoiled--most SR fans focus on Mick, they'd all like to get personal responses from him in a venue like that, but never get that chance. I got that chance with Steve--several times over. How fortunate is that?!?!? I miss that, but you know what? He's living his life and I'm living mine. He does more for me every day without doing anything--his great bass playing on 'Home' inspired me to get back on an instrument again, and every time I pick up my bass, I think of him and smile. Then I proceed to have a blast playing. Not to mention getting to listen to his playing on the many other recordings I have. That's more precious than anything...the ongoing gift of music.
Martha--*blushing again* Glad to know I've touched your life in such a positive way. I know you've certainly been a great addition to mine, I like our conversations. Need to meet up sometime!! In the meantime, good to know that your positive thoughts have good odds... :D ...but seriously, I'll be OK if things don't pan out. That tour schedule the band's on is insane; I'll just be grateful if they make it to all the dates and give it their all on stage each time.
Michi--you're right, time to stop kicking myself over this...but....*howling with laughter* Funnily enough, was in the middle of hormone rage when the incident happened--and now during the confession as well!!! (Too much information, I know, but what a coincidence, eh???? :lol: :lol: :lol: ) Naw, I own this. I let myself get too excited. I do dumb things when I do that.
Next "chances"? Don't want to look at them that way--but to see him and the rest of the lads play, it's:
65 days until takeoff
67 to Beaulieu
68 to Harewood
69 to Marcus Miller 1 (hey, I'm looking forward to watching HIM stroke some string too!!)
70 to Marcus Miller 2
73 to Leeds Castle (offer of accommodation on table from LiveJournal buddy!!! YAY!!)
84 to Liverpool
...and whatever other adventures are in store over there!!!!!!! BRING IT!!!!! :D
Time to quit waffling and go get some stuff done so I have time to practice tonight. :rock :wink: :-D
Re: Your most embarrassing Simply Red moment
simplymichi - 25.04.2006, 20:38
Oops, I think I meant "chances" in a more innocent way :wink:
Re: Your most embarrassing Simply Red moment
sasred - 25.04.2006, 20:53
simplymichi wrote: Oops, I think I meant "chances" in a more innocent way :wink:
I took it as my chance(s) to meet one or more band members after a gig. You meant--?
Re: Your most embarrassing Simply Red moment
simplymichi - 25.04.2006, 21:02
OK, that's what I was thinking of... before my dirty mind played tricks on me ;)
Re: Your most embarrassing Simply Red moment
sasred - 25.04.2006, 22:59
simplymichi wrote: OK, that's what I was thinking of... before my dirty mind played tricks on me ;)
*laughing uncontrollably* Got chocolate on the mind again??? :wink: :D (Thinking of that fountain...)
Re: Your most embarrassing Simply Red moment
night nurse - 25.04.2006, 23:33
Shan~ you warm my heart. Thank you so much for sharing. And no need to be embarassed. It was an honest reaction and a human reaction. We can all relate to that!
:hug
Angie
Re: Your most embarrassing Simply Red moment
sasred - 26.04.2006, 00:11
night nurse wrote: Shan~ you warm my heart. Thank you so much for sharing. And no need to be embarassed. It was an honest reaction and a human reaction. We can all relate to that!
:hug
Angie
:oops: Thanks, Angie... :hug back to you. :-D And you're welcome on the sharing--I figured since it peaked curiosity, I might as well spill. Honesty is the best policy. I just wish I'd exercised a little more self-control that night, but under the controlled exterior is a powderkeg of passion--things and people can move me to a great extent.
And he moves me. Listening to him playing right now with Jean Toussaint's Nazaire--I'm thinking he played a fretless on this track. Just a little bite and growl in all the right places. Nice. :top May my chops be this fluid and relaxed someday. :oops:
Re: Your most embarrassing Simply Red moment
redorro - 26.04.2006, 01:25
Shannon. You have raised the bar on this subject. As soon as I get the time, I will provide a very similar embarrassing SR moment. :lol: which your description reminded me of. *still laughing*.
Poor Carol M.
Pat (she too hiding her face in embarrassment)
Re: Your most embarrassing Simply Red moment
sasred - 27.04.2006, 19:45
redorro wrote: Shannon. You have raised the bar on this subject. As soon as I get the time, I will provide a very similar embarrassing SR moment. :lol: which your description reminded me of. *still laughing*.
Poor Carol M.
Pat (she too hiding her face in embarrassment)
This isn't a competition, Pat. :lol: I opened the fool can of worms--you don't have to go chasing 'em if you don't want to. :D
Re: Your most embarrassing Simply Red moment
redorro - 30.04.2006, 03:46
Agree Shannon. It isn't a comp. :) You just reminded me of something I done, which I'd forgotten about.
Manyof us have possibly experienced similar types of emotional scenes after Simply Red live performances.
I remember after the show at Shepherd's Bush in 2005. We were mingling around the stage after the show and I was talking with Carol and a few others nearby when I just started blubbering. The show was so fantastic, it raised the most primitive of emotions in me. I guess I didn't know how to deal with the emotional high I was on. Carol must have thought I lost something precious and wondered what was wrong with me.
The feelings you have after these shows, you just want to go up to the band and give them a bit hug, and say 'thank you', to explain just how much you enjoyed the performance. And isn't that always the best outcome from a concert? :-D
But saying plain 'thank you', just doesn't cut the mustard for the pleasure you have received from the concert.
Well, that was an embarrassing moment. But probably not my most embarrassing. I can remember to ladies in thier 30's with feelings of teenagers, after a concert in Canberra.
Ok, fess up you lot. I know there are more gems like this out there. :lol:
Pat
Re: Your most embarrassing Simply Red moment
MARTHA JEAN - 30.04.2006, 15:51
HELLO ALL!!
I WISH I COULD FESS UP TO SEEING THE BAND OUTSIDE THE BACK DOOR, BUT I HONESTLY NEVER THOUGHT OF IT.
SEEING MICK IN THE NOTTINGHAM ARENA, A LARGE VENUE, IT DIDN'T OCCUR TO ME TO GO TO THE BACK DOOR OR EVEN WHERE IT WAS.
DA!!
I GUESS IF I EVER GET TO SEE OUR BAND AGAIN, I'LL ASK OR GO OUTSIDE AND SCOUT AROUND FOR WHERE THE OTHERS ARE WAITING FOR THEM TO LEAVE.
ONE LEARNS SOMETHING NEW EVERYDAY.
Re: Your most embarrassing Simply Red moment
sasred - 30.04.2006, 18:47
Pat, I SO know the feeling. I was absolutely delirious after Sheffield--it was my first SR concert EVER, and I'd been totally blown away by the performance. I stood in that aisle as people were clearing out, laughing, crying, screaming, and shouting kind of all at the same time--just a total release of emotion. But somehow that wasn't embarrassing for me. Guess I saw that as a fandom moment and owned it with pride. :D But everyone ticks differently.
Regarding your original example--had a beauty yesterday. Got my SR mojo working--was shopping with my students for their Saturday activity, and wandered into a card store. Started browsing--found the PERFECT one for Dave's birthday, even though I'd not gone in to really look for one. Went to pay for it. Just as she hands me my receipt, over the store radio comes "Something Got Me Started (Stars version)". You know I started singing and dancing right there!!!!! :D :D :D
What a coincidence, eh?
Martha--good that you learned about waiting for the band, but please learn from me as well--that they won't always come out, so don't get your hopes up too high... :oops: :oops: :oops:
Re: Your most embarrassing Simply Red moment
redorro - 30.04.2006, 23:23
Yes Martha. Take it as it comes. To try to prevent disappointment if it doesn't happen. Which is the way it seems to be going these days.
Hey Shannon. That is just to spooky. Dare I say something might be in the hands of the gods, soon. :wink: :wink:
Pat
Re: Your most embarrassing Simply Red moment
MARTHA JEAN - 03.05.2006, 19:04
MY DEAR REDORRO,
YOU ARE SO RIGHT AND PROFOUND!!
HONESTLY, I WILL DO WHAT YOU SAY AND NOT PONDER ON WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR INSIGHTS. FONDLY, MARTHA JEAN
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