America

meangreenie · **Posted:** Mon May 28, 2012 6:17 pm

Hi wonder toy

Back in '93, my first trip, two words "utterly fabulous".

More recently, in '10, two words "utterly fabulous".

Beautiful people, beautiful country.

If I had to live anywhere, other than Old Blighty, it would be America.

Can you tell, I am quite a fan? :wink:

Regards - meangreenie

donger · **Joined:** Sat Feb 13, 2010 6:00 pm **Posts:** 1058

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I was born in America and have lived in America all my life, and I can't believe the size of some of the cars. I fell in love with small cars when I took a vacation in Italy, and it's a sore point with me that we can't have small cars; the number of huge cars on the road just make it too dangerous for small-car drivers.

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Agreed. Gasoline will never be too expensive for some people.

wonder toy · **Posted:** Mon May 28, 2012 10:09 pm

I hope I get a chance to make it to England one day. (preferably Nelsonica)

Nice to hear that everyone had a good time here.

Bill Nelson · **Joined:** Sun Apr 03, 2005 4:40 pm **Posts:** 8465

Re: American cars:
I would have loved to have been able to visit America in the late 1950s, early '60s, when the now classic tail-finned, rocket-ship inspired cars cruised the US cities and highways. Yes, horrendous gas-guzzlers and highly ecologically incorrect vehicles, I know, but, despite all that, works of sculptural art on wheels...just fabulously dreamy machines.

Although I was born in working class Yorkshire I grew up with American pop-culture, music, films, comic books and technology, (as so many of my generation did.) Perhaps it was the Hollywood version of 'the 'States' rather than the real thing but the romance of it all was terribly seductive for a young boy surrounded by the drab, grey and austere atmosphere of post-war England.

wonder toy · **Posted:** Tue May 29, 2012 7:16 am

Cool stuff.

Do you remember where your first show in America was?

Bill Nelson · **Joined:** Sun Apr 03, 2005 4:40 pm **Posts:** 8465

wonder toy wrote:

Do you remember where your first show in America was?

I think it was in Atlanta. I remember staying at The Peach Tree Plaza Hotel which, in the '70s, seemed very modern and quite impressive. I think the venue we played was called something like 'The Electric Ballroom' (or something similar.) I seem to remember we had to walk through the audience to get to the stage and, as we did so, a member of the audience shouted to me: "Hey, Bill! Glad to see you're in town! Wanna do some Qualudes?"
We eventually quoted that line in 'The Modern Music Suite'! :lol:

Douglas Barry · **Posted:** Tue May 29, 2012 1:33 pm

Bill Nelson wrote:

... a member of the audience shouted to me: "Hey, Bill! Glad to see you're in town! Wanna do some Qualudes?"
We eventually quoted that line in 'The Modern Music Suite'! :lol:

Thanks for this Bill. During those times over the last 36 years or so I've listened to Modern Music, all I ever heard in that quote was "Quails Eggs"! :shock:

wonder toy · **Posted:** Tue May 29, 2012 6:27 pm

Bill Nelson wrote:

wonder toy wrote:

Do you remember where your first show in America was?

I think it was in Atlanta. I remember staying at The Peach Tree Plaza Hotel which, in the '70s, seemed very modern and quite impressive. I think the venue we played was called something like 'The Electric Ballroom' (or something similar.) I seem to remember we had to walk through the audience to get to the stage and, as we did so, a member of the audience shouted to me: "Hey, Bill! Glad to see you're in town! Wanna do some Qualudes?"
We eventually quoted that line in 'The Modern Music Suite'! :lol:

So... How were the ludes...? :wink:

Welcome to America, huh? :lol:

The Peachtree still looks kind of modern.

Alex Cooley's Electric Ballroom... Maybe it was Alex who offered the Qualudes.

Never before a show. :wink:

Tourist in Wonderland · **Posted:** Tue May 29, 2012 7:22 pm

America is fabulous!!

It's big!

Jaw-dropping, spectacular

Great people.. genuinely very friendly..much more so, on the whole, than in the UK

New York is the best/my favourite city in the world!!..I love it!!!..

..a 'world within a world'.

I can see myself living there permanently sometime in the future..

Radium Girl · **Posted:** Tue May 29, 2012 7:25 pm

New York's alright......

If you like saxophones :wink:

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