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The Problem with Chavs… by Owen Jones

Hi, it’s Tony Loboinson, history expert at the Greenygrey, here writing about the working-class, because I think my human parallel is from that background. Not that you’d really be able to notice, and maybe that’s the best way to be; but is the current growth in the rich-poor gap, and the divisions it creates, the working-class’s fault, or is it due to society in the last thirty years omitting them from the top positions in politics and the media.

Chavs by Owen Jones

Chavs by Owen Jones (Photo credit: Robert Burdock)

One of the rising stars in the media wrote a book criticising the labelling of the working-class as ‘chavs’ in 2011, but Owen Jones is middle-class himself.

Marc Latham, who had a pre-Chav era working-class poor one-parent council flat upbringing, had wanted to focus his university research on the demonising of the working-class when he finished his PhD in 2005, but his department didn’t support him; well, to be precise, a baby-faced middle-class tutor not unlike Jones himself.

Marc was reduced to publishing his opinions on this here blog, which he thinks is also good and relevant, but it was a bittersweet double-edged greenygrey feeling for him when Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class the book appeared six years later.

Owen Jones Avoided Grooming Cases 

Maybe the department thought Marc was too working-class to focus on his own demographic, although there are female feminists who only write defending their own gender, and criticising the other; and ethnic-minorities who do the same with issues of race.

Maybe Owen Jones was a safer bet to give the working-class a voice, seeing as he isn’t really one of them. His book contains many of the issues Marc had noticed, and written about in this blog.

Snake-oil going cheap! Del-boy George Galloway. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Since writing the book Jones has become a celebrity leftist, perhaps the next George Galloway; criticising Islamophobia more than chavophobia!

And maybe that’s why he failed to write a chapter on the mainly Pakistani grooming, rape and prostitution of poor and vulnerable children on an industrial scale that was going on for years before he wrote his book; but was hidden and not tackled by New Labour. 

I think that was because it looked bad for New Labour’s glorious new age of multiculturalism. It was only after New Labour lost power that it was widely publicised, although to be fair, Jack Straw did try and talk about it, but he was shouted down by the ‘multicultural left’.

This month, Coventry grooming arrests meant it was the latest city to be revealed with a vulnerable girls being targeted by members of the Muslim community case; although it only dates from last year.

Owen Jones: Career over Care

Instead of talking about the biggest atrocity against poor people in Britain over the last decade, which was largely ignored by the media and politicians, Owen Jones prefers to concentrate his book solely against the rich establishment; like George Galloway does with his politics.

The first chapter of the book could have been about the grooming cases, but instead Jones (or his publishers?) prefers to devote it to the Shannon Matthews case, when she was hidden/kidnapped by her own working-class family. 

I don’t think the chapter works at all as an example of elites demonising the working-class, as the media widely covered a case that ended up as being a working-class deception and crime; wasting police and media time, and probably supporting the opinions of higher class people who used the term ‘chav’.

So while Owen Jones is obviously a bright lad with great presentation, I think his Chavs book is incomplete, and does more to support the liberal left’s multicultural agenda than the real working-class.

Sorry if I appear like a snake-oil salesman, but I like my books better!:

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Working-Class Week Starts with Negative Chav Image

Hi, it’s Greenygrey. As we start off working-class week at the Greenygrey with an episode of Werewolf of Oz: Fantasy Travel by Google Maps I was hoping it would have some working-class relevance, like the Latham story for example, but it’s more like a hangover from women and feminism week, with Elle’s body starring.

Not Leading You Astray at the Greenygrey 

English: Bishopgate, a former slum area in Wetherby. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

So I looked up the biography of Elle’s human inspiration, Elle McPherson, on Wikipedia, hoping to find she had a poor background, and rags to riches story, but she is from a wealthy family.

Her parents did split up though, so she has had something of a dysfunctional background, and that can sometimes be worse than coming from a poor background within a happy family.

And that hopefully works as an example of how at the Greenygrey we believe in defending and promoting the working-class with balance, linked to other social groups rather than separate, as green and grey are linked by Y; more Martin Luther King and Barack Obama than Malcolm X and Louis Farrakhan.

Gollum Symbolic of Britain’s Chav Underclass Image

Angry (Anderson) is the main working-class hero symbol in the Werewolf of Oz, but he doesn’t appear much in this episode; showing this is all live and unplanned!

The Making of the English Working Class (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

But thinking of the working-class image that grew out of Thatcher’s attack on the unions and working-class communities, and New Labour‘s focus on mass immigration multiculturalism; meaning the rich-poor gap has grown and British workers have been labelled lazy for not working more hours for less money; the Gollum/Smeagol character Smiggin is probably a good representative.

It’s not an analogy I like and want, and there’ll be a lot more on that this week, but for now here’s the start of the Lord of the Rings Smiggin Holes storyline:

Chapter 96.  Wizard of Oz Metamorphosis into Lord of the Rings

After eating our fill of veggie broth we had a good night’s kip snuggled up in a huddle under a puddle sky. We packed up and cleared away in the morning, before following the dust sandy path in the direction of Smiggin Holes. The path was as much powder snowy as dust sandy now.

Smiggin Holes Strange Happenings 

Gollum in Ralph Bakshi’s animated version of The Lord of the Rings (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

As we entered the forested valley on the approach to Smiggin Holes I thought the scenery was stunning; but I was becoming increasingly worried that I could see a hobbitish shape following us.

After the previous troubles on our Ozyssey,

I wondered what it could be.

Elle was walking beside me, and I asked if she’d seen something. She confirmed my suspicions, saying she’d seen movement parallel to us for some time.

We entered a forest half an hour later, and I feared the shape was closing in on us. Then I felt something snatch at my head, and before I knew it, I was hatless. My emerald cork hat had been pinched from right in front of my eyes; or right above my eyes to be precise.

Jack holding Santa Hat (Photo credit: tscibilia)

I was bewildered by the bonce burglary, but Elle must have seen it coming; she was after the viperous varmint before I regained my composure.

The others joined me, and we set off after them, catching up on the third ridge.

Elle was holding the hobbitish creature by the scruff of the neck. Meanwhile, it was holding the emerald cork hat close to its chest, while repeating the sentence, ‘my precious, my precious, it’s mine, it’s mine, it’s Smiggin’s hat, all mine…’

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Notes

Lord of the Rings featured a hobbit called Sméagol / Gollum, who acted in a similar way to Smiggin, only it was a ring that was its ‘precious’.

Zemanta’s ‘green’ images of snake and various objects inspired the direction in the next two blogs.

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Madonna and Marc Latham: Controversial Feminists

Hi, it’s Grey Greyvara, wrapping up women and feminism week at the Greenygrey. I just revisited the poejazzi website where Marc Latham has posted a couple of comments, and seen that they weren’t understood properly, or twisted around, so I thought I’d make clear our thoughts on women and feminism here at the Greenygrey.

Persecuted Women Inspired Feminist Blogging and Poetry

When Marc Latham started blogging, one of his first campaigns was against the Taliban treatment of Afghan women. That was before 9/11, and the War on Terror. 

As a socialist, Marc hoped the Taliban could be overthrown, and that would inspire more gender equality around the world.

Marc was also inspired by a BBC documentary in 2006 about the hanging of a troubled young Iranian girl, Atefah Sahaaleh, convicted of chastity offences after she’d been raped (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/5217424.stm).

Marc’s first Folding Mirror poem, written around 2007, and starting the fmpoetry.wordpress.com website in 2009 had this theme:

Stoned Free 

Comfort, Crying, Freedom,

Sold into slavery,

Beaten, Raped,

Unwanted by twenty,

Accused of immorality, Judged,

Guilty of course,

Jeering, Hatred,

Surrounded by men,

Pain, Confusion, Liberation.

Militant Islam Growth

However, Bush allowed the Taliban to recover from defeat, and to reclaim an originally Buddhist Afghanistan for militant Islam.

Moreover, militant Islam has spread into Pakistan, with the shooting of Malala Yousafzai by the Pakistan Taliban for wanting to attend school rekindling memories of the female Afghan teachers who risked death to teach girls behind close doors; defying the Taliban when they first gained power.

Saba Sahar

Last year, Channel Four’s Unreported World reported on Afghan film-makers led by Saba Sahar. She said that she risks daily death threats to continue filming, and that she faces certain death if the Taliban catch her (documentary description available at: http://goo.gl/QeWDkB).

Militant Islam has also spread around the Middle-East since the ‘Arab Spring’, and increasingly into Africa; some of it supported by the ‘West’; with women losing a lot of what rights they had under the old regimes. Last week two British women were attacked in Zanzibar in what looks like a Militant Islamic gender control operation.

Militant Islam Branded as Feminist in U.K. and Europe

I’m reluctant to post about brave Muslim women now, because in Britain and Europe Islam is being branded as ‘feminist’. People inspired by Mulala or Saba might become Muslims, and help the militant Islamic bandwagon propaganda of the fastest-growing religion; thereby ultimately helping the Taliban who would kill both of them if they could.

And because European Islamic feminism doesn’t seem to be led by the brave women and girls who want to learn, work and wear clothes with gender equality; it’s led by women who want to support the Taliban and other militant Islamic men in the Muslim world who dictate how ‘their’ women dress and behave.

Assassinated Pakistani Prime-Minister Benazir Bhutto  (Photo credit: Festival Karsh Ottawa)

A recent Channel Four news programme featured a British Muslim woman having travelled to Syria to find a martyr, because she couldn’t find one in the U.K. (which looked good for Muslim men in the U.K.); followed by ex-Apprentice businesswoman Saira Khan arguing with a Syrian journalist about women in the Middle-East; with the Syrian woman supporting more gender freedom and equality.

A lot of British people seem to have been brainwashed by New Labour’s multicultural fascism into supporting the most extreme kind of Islam, instead of trying to integrate Islam into twenty-first century Britain and Europe.

Britain and Europe was already far from gender equal before the mass introduction of the more sexist Muslim-led multiculturalism, and seems to have gone backwards rather than continuing to progress forwards.

That backward trend seems to be supported by Victorian-style cover-up-women feminists and the ’militant left-wing Islamic faction’ gorgeous George Galloway groupies who will support anything anti-Western/American/Capitalist.

Madonna and Chime for Change

Madonna different to glamour models?

Madonna recently starred in the Chime for Change London concert, calling for freedom of education for all girls.

There is no place for werewolves in the campaign (although there was for Beyonce’s Jay-Z, despite his past ‘sexist’ lyrics) and I wonder how the cover-up-women feminists feel about Madonna being such a star at the concert, considering her use of sexuality and nakedness in her career.

I hope they succeed in their campaign, and the Greenygrey is happy to leave them to it. For poor British girls are now under attack from a sexism imported from the above culture. Not that it is new to the U.K., with The Mill television series showing it has been a part of British culture for centuries.

Leading nicely into working-class week at the Greenygrey: the second of the www Ws at the GG.

Dr. Marc Latham has books available on:

Smashwords and Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/author/marclatham).

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Women and Feminism: Hair Nice n’ Natural not Sexy

Hi, it’s Stella Lagerwolf-Bruno, fashion expert at the Greenygrey. Women and feminism week is drawing to a close here, so I think it’s about time we had a little fashion discussion about what looks good, nice and sexy.

Hair looks Nice and Natural

This week we’ve featured a lot of blonde women, and that’s because blonde hair can brighten a greenygrey day.

However, at the Greenygrey we believe hair looks nice and natural, not sexy, so there’s no need to cover it unless there’s a weather-related reason or bad hair day.

I don’t think this looks sexy or nice:

This doesn’t look sexy, but looks nice:

Natural Hair and Designer Vanity: a Socialist Perspective

At the Greenygrey we believe there is nothing vain about showing your natural self; and that it is much less vain than buying expensive designer scarves to hide it.

Charley Webb plays poor Debbie Dingle in Emmerdale. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

When women are forced to hide their hair and other natural qualities, and it is supported by the matriarchs of those societies, it seems to me like the rich and powerful hiding the qualities of the poor and beautiful; making the quality and prestige of headgear more important in terms of attractiveness than natural hair.

As my hair is now grey and past its best, I could call for all werewolves to cover their hair, because with my fantastic fashion sense I’d then be able to look better than all the other werewolves. But I wouldn’t put such a cunning plan into practise.

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Perishers in Perisher Valley Finale: Perish the Feminist Thoughts

Hi, it’s G.G. Howling, listening to the Scorpions, who had some wonderful women hanging out with them in the 1980s Worldwide Live video. The heavy rock and metal fan in me loves rock and metal comedy satires, like Beavis and Butthead and the Bill and Ted movies, so sometimes I wonder why other people don’t seem to have a sense of humour when it comes to comedy satire they say offends them. Maybe they’d say I don’t mind because I’m too stupid, like the stereotypical metalhead?

Although I’m not the real author of Werewolf of Oz: Fantasy Travel by Google Maps like my human parallel J.K. Rowling was of The Cuckoo Calling, after using the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, I’ve been invited to introduce the second of this week’s episodes of your favourite werewolf travels Australia on a fantasy travel quest for comedy satire by Google maps.

Girl Action 

There’s not much girl action in this episode, but that hopefully means there’s less ammunition for militant feminists to criticise. Although they will probably criticise the lack of females then.

If there’s women in it militant feminist critical theorists will find fault with their roles, and if there’s no women in it they’ll criticise the lack of women… because like other critical theorists, that’s their job and obsessive agenda. Sometimes there are genuine biases, but other times they just seem to pick on something to have something to write about.

Madonna, Valle Hovin (Photo credit: NRK P3)

It’s hard to find a happy medium, and sometimes hard for men to know the right thing to do with modern women; open a door or not, smile and greet or not, compliment or ignore etc; but we think most try to do their best, and we certainly do at the Greenygrey.

For the Girls, Girls, Girls

While a lot of what we’ve written might have seemed more critical of women than men, we do believe that women have the moral high ground over men overall, as men do much more violent crimes against women than vice versa; and men still control power a lot of the time. But women often wield the power behind the men.

Jo Guest (Photo credit: Stuart Chalmers)

Maybe some women believe they have to become militant, but some men think they get privileged treatment as it is. Funnily enough, glamour modelling is one industry where women probably do better than men, although it is supposed to be a tough cutthroat place to work.

Beavis and Butthead Send in the Clowns

The truth is probably somewhere in the Greenygrey middle. Anyway, enough prevarication, you’ve already had the best work of my day for no additional pay.

Here’s the next Woo episode, which sees the conclusion of The Perishers in Perisher Valley storyline… leading to a Smiggin Holes Lord of the Rings theme…

Chapter 95.  Angry’s Adoption Offer

The veg broth was cooking well, and everything seemed swell.

Angry’s Dog Gets the Boot 

Remembering Grizzly Adams (Photo credit: DanMoralesPhotography)

Angry’s dog was getting on with Boot like a house on fire; warming the cockles of my heart in front of our flaming bush telly. I hadn’t seen two critters take to each other so quickly since Grizzly Bear Adams met Ben.

The dog duo seemed inseparable by the time Marlon said the Perishers had to leave. I felt sorry for them, until Angry said it looked like his dog had found a new home, and told the Perishers and Boot to look after it.

Angry’s dog looked sad as we said goodbye, but walked proudly beside Boot at the head of the gang as they left.

Beware Smiggin Holes 

Smiggin Holes, Kosciuszko National Park (Photo credit: Australian Alps)

Before leaving, Maisie warned us to beware of Smiggin Holes if we were heading east, as there was some weird poo going on down there. Her warning sent a shiver down my spine; well, it was either that or the cold; as that was the direction I could see the dust sandy path leading.

Boot’s new best friend barked a final goodbye before disappearing from view, and Angry led us in shouting and barking our farewells.

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Notes

Grizzly Bear Adams was a television series about a wilderness man called Adams who saved and befriended a grizzly bear he named Ben.

Smiggin Holes is really a nice ski resort.

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Blondie’s Debbie Harry: Adopted Child Cultural Legend

Hi, it’s Wachel Wiley-Coyote, numbers expert at the Greenygrey and Countdown to the Full Moon. It’s women and feminism week at the Greenygrey, and I think there’s few better examples of female role models who’ve struggled through juvenile adversity to legendary status than Debbie Harry of Blondie.

I think I can relate a little to Debbie Harry after my human parallel Rachel Riley was criticised for her short skirts early in her Countdown career.

Tough Childhood to Blondie Success

Debbie Harry was adopted. After graduating college with an Arts degree she struggled through her early singing career with jobs ranging from a BBC Radio secretary to a Playboy Bunny.

Cover of Blondie

After singing in a few bands she found success with Blondie, fronting a band completed with four male musicians. Debbie was of course considered the leader and main focal point of the band.

Harry mixed a cool singing persona with punk fashion and dancing to capture the attention and admiration of both men and women.

Debbie Harry and Chris Stein

Although Harry’s onstage behaviour and dress might have brought disapproval by some people, she had an exemplary long-term relationship with bandmate Chris Stein. 

This included Blondie taking a break for an extended period of time at the height of their success as Harry cared for Stein when he began suffering from the blistering autoimmune disease pemphigus.

Blondie Continue to Rock n’ Roll

Blondie never regained their late 1970s heyday, but have continued to record and tour, and have had several successful records in recent years.

Debbie Harry continues to be an icon for the late 1970s generation, symbolising that time of exciting punk and new wave musical acts. And now she is an example of leading a good and successful life after overcoming early adversity.

Cover of Deborah Harry

I wonder if the late-1970s men generation would like and love women as much today without Debbie Harry?

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Millie Tant of Viz Fame Werewolf of Oz Analysis

Hi, it’s Susie Dentinfang, word expert at the Greenygrey and Countdown to the Full Moon. When I agreed to this gig at the Greenygrey some werewolves thought it was beneath me, and that I’d lower perceptions of my kind, but I noticed last week that my human parallel, Susie Dent, was having a whale of a time on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, and was even serenaded by some bloke called Nick Helm.

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Millie Tant of Viz Comic Fame

I was lost for words for once, and still am, so it’s lucky that I’m just here today to present the latest thrilling episode of Werewolf of Oz: Fantasy Travel by Google Maps as part of the Greenygrey’s women and feminism week.

Millie Tant Guest Analyst

While I’m happy working for the Greenygrey, and think Werewolf of Oz is positive towards women, I thought it’d be only fair to get the views of a more militant female about today’s episode. So I contacted Millicent ‘Millie’ Buckridge Tant of Viz fame, and asked her what she thought. She was horrified.

Snowman building (Photo credit: TheNickster)

She said it was awful that the two main women of the story, Cathy and Elle, were stereotypically doing the cooking in the first paragraph.

I pointed out that male Angry was building a snowman at the time, which was a more useless role really, and that unisex Grey unthinkingly joined him instead of helping with the cooking. Moreover, Cathy later knows where they are more than anyone.

Millie shouted it should have been a snow-woman anyway, and said she was going to organise a Werewolf of Oz boycott before slamming the phone down.

Werewolf of Oz Introduction 

Anyway, here’s the episode with the controversial first paragraph uncensored and uncut for you to decide.

It sees the travellers having escaped Kerang-Kerrang to New South Wales, the penultimate state of their epic fantasy travel comedy satire quest; and a guest appearance by the one and many Perishers.

Chapter 94.  Perishers Prevent Perishing Cold in Perisher Valley

I awoke adrift in a snow drift. As I came to terms with my consciousness, and remembered the events in Kerang-Kerrang, I could see there were awesome peaks all around us. Climbing clear of the hole I’d made for myself, I saw Cathy and Elle were kindling a fire, while Angry was building a snowman.

Wishing it had been them. (Photo credit: nechbi)

I helped Angry finish off the snowman, and then we joined Cathy and Elle as they cooked up some wild vegetable broth.

I asked if anybody knew where we were. Cathy said it was the Perisher Valley, in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales. We had crossed over the state border during the dream.

Perishers Peruse our Parky Party 

View to Perisher village from mt. Perisher (2054m) (Photo credit: Tatters:))

I had just about absorbed Cathy’s geographical information, when some interesting characters wandered out of the nearby forest pushing a pram and pulling a wooden buggy. They were heading our way.

I said howdy when they got within earshot, and asked where they were heading.

The one pulling a buggy said they were on their annual holiday from the Daily Mirror’s Perishers cartoon, and were making their way home to Crunge after getting ejected from the train again.

He introduced himself as Wellington, and the other humans as Maisie, Marlon and Baby Grumpling. The Old English Sheepdog was called Boot.

Perishers Save Us from Perish the Thought 

perishers careers (Photo credit: mcmrbt)

Elle asked them if they’d seen any dead wood on their travels, as we were running out, and there might not be enough to finish cooking our food. Marlon said they hadn’t, but he offered us his buggy, saying it wasn’t one of his most genius contraptions, and hadn’t been much use in the snow.

We were overwhelmed by his generosity, and thanked him profusely before quickly dismantling it and heaping it on our bush telly.

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Notes

The Perishers story and characters explained within the narrative. Marlon was known for his genius contraptions.

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Women and Feminism Week: Femen to Playboy

Hi, it’s Grey Greyvara, social conscience at the Greenygrey, listening to Nirvana’s Nevermind on a Seattlish weather Monday morning in Blighty after an L.A.ish weather weekend. As regular readers will know, the Greenygrey was formed with a www ethos: wolves, women and working-class; inspired by a mixture of animal welfare, humanitarianism, environmentalism and socialism.

Feminism with a Sense of Humour

And because it’s done seriously elsewhere in the media, we try to add a little comedy to it. In this respect, the y of comedy is the y linking opposing arguments in the Greenygrey; or the different kinds of feminist movements.

I think that while the Victorian-style feminists could be classed as the grey, the nude n’ proud feminists would be the green.

Ethical-Hefnerist Feminism for Men 

The Playboy Mansion – West (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Most men like women; unless or until they have a very bad experience with them, and vice-versa; but wouldn’t think of themselves as feminists because it conjures up images of men-hating radicals.

Perhaps the best example of a woman-loving man is Hugh Hefner, who lives with dozens of beautiful women in the Playboy Mansion. Which we’ve just noticed in the accompanying photo can look greenygrey great!

Liberating the Playboy Mansion Chicks 

Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

While nobody forces the women to live there, and it’s a dream for many women who apply to live and work there, the mansion does seem a little like a workplace.

We might be ending our hopes of an invite to the Playboy Mansion, but we believe in wilderness freedom, so as the social conscience of the Greenygrey I believe the chicks should be more free-range.

We also don’t believe in unnecessary cosmetic surgery, so believe the Playboy Mansion should be more organic.

Lads Mags Sexy Humour and Feminist Talibannies 

FEMEN demonstration in Kiev.

As we campaigned against the grooming, raping and prostituting of poor and vulnerable girls for ten years while ‘militant feminists’ in the U.K. kept quiet about it (apart from Ann Cryer if she counts as a militant feminist?), or even tried to keep it quiet and censored as part of the fascist ‘Unite Against Fascism’ we think a little politically incorrect humour should be okay.

But the militant feminist movement seems to have woken up now, with lads mags and glamour models the easy traditional target. While some feminist movements, like Ukraine’s Femen, believe women should have the right to show their bodies any way they want, the British feminist movement seems allied with the Taliban in wanting women covered up.

More women talk this week, and plenty of Hefnerist feminism in Marc Latham’s books on Smashwords and Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/author/marclatham).

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Axl and Slash: Angry Nice Boys with Rose Tattoo

A recent episode of Werewolf of Oz: Fantasy Travel by Google Maps focused on Angry Anderson and Rose Tattoo’s influence on L.A. heavy metal.

Although Guns N’ Roses are no longer together, and Axl and Slash no longer nice boys to each other, they still remember Rose Tattoo’s influence on their music, and both jammed Nice Boys with Angry and Rose Tattoo on recent tours:

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Werewolf of Ozzers Prog Rock Literary Nonsense

Hi, it’s Greenygrey. Here’s the last episode of the Kerang-Kerrang time-travel tale that has been keeping you on the edge of your seats all week. This episode focuses on Prog Rock, from the cool Pink Floyd to the a little over the top for my liking Yes and ELP.

Crazy Train (Photo credit: somenice)

We hope you liked this tale within a tale, and will continue travelling with us for the rest of the journey, which only has about fifty chapters to go now.

Chapter 93.  Prog Rock Helps Travellers to a Good Spirit Sleep

I heard a voice announce there would be another Crazy Train in an hour. Although I was ready to leave Kerang-Kerrang I didn’t really fancy that, so I asked the others if they had any ideas about how to move on with our minds intact.

Cathy Gets into the Spirit of it 

dream (Photo credit: gigi 62)

Cathy said she thought she could feel the Wemba-Wemba spirit in the area, and if she could get a deeper contact she might be able to find a dream path.

I thought for a minute or three,

awaiting a perfect eddy,

to make me look brainy.

I was still paddling the surf,

with the sea much to rough,

when Cathy said Prog Rock was enough.

I’d heard before it is the ultimate unwind,

so I left the stormy waters of my mind behind,

and agreed with Cathy on what to find.

Pink Floyd too Exciting for a Good Sleep 

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Cover of Animals

So off we rambled to find Prog Rock. It turned out to be easier than I thought, as a pig was flying above. A long Wall extended from Prog Rock to the Dark Side of the Moon, and herds of Animals seemed to be using it as a bridge between the two.

I suggested continuing to the ELPYesendless Lea suburb; because from what I knew, it was constructed for comfort and rolled on forever. It sounded perfect for inducing a good sleep.

Sound Spirit Sleep 

emerson lake and freakin palmer (Photo credit: ▓▒░ TORLEY ░▒▓)

So, under an ELP Black Moon on Love Beach we took our places In the Hot Seat. And Yes, Close to the Edge, holding hands in Union, we swept into slept until we could Fly From Here. It was like no other flight I’d experienced.

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Notes

Prog(ressive) Rock is a complex form of music usually involving long instrument-orientated songs.

Wemba-Wemba is an aborigine group of people.

Pink Floyd albums: Wall, Dark Side of the Moon, Animals. Pink Floyd had a flying inflatable pig in their stage show.

ELP (Emerson, Lake and Palmer) and albums: Black Moon, Love Beach, In the Hot Seat.

Yes and albums: Close to the Edge, Union, Fly From Here.

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