The PA Happy Birthday Thread

In fact, though, said services might be useful for our actual birthday star today when he needs his kit transported. For let us say hello to yet another prog star who has graced the forum of the most avidly read prog site in the known universe, one that the three-headed little green men on the red planet are, as we speak, hacking into the NASA rover to read.

For fstdrmr celebrates his 61st birthday in the Land of the Free today. Jerry Beller listed his occupation as both an insurance agent and a drummer, the former being especially handy, one assumes, if he ever buggers up his spinal cord in the manner of that Genesis bloke who ruined prog.

When Jerry joined the throbbing prog mass that is PA in 2005, he advertised the music of his band, an ELP Tribute act called Knife Edge, based in LA. And also at the time, he played in a band with Ryo Okumoto of the fuzzy faced Vulcan band Music Street Journal - Music News & Reviews 

Jerry then moved on to a band quite a few of you may have heard of. I reviewed their debut album in 2010. Yep, he was the drummer with Mars Hollow. Here is their website Mars Hollow - Official Website and here is my review of their debut   MARS HOLLOW Mars Hollow music review by lazland Unfortunately, they only went on to make one more studio album, and a live effort, but they were quite well regarded.

So, what is our Jerry up to now, I hear the masses scream? Well, if you are sitting comfortably, then I will begin. He went on to play in a band called Heliopolis, who are also on our beloved encyclopaedic site HELIOPOLIS discography and reviews And there the musical trail ends. According to Goditssadbook, Jerry now works for UPS in Malibu. He does still, though, have a picture of him behind the kit on his homepage, and mentions session work, so hopefully our good friend is not lost to us musically https://www.facebook.com/jerry.beller.9

Happy Birthday, Jerry. Deliver on time! Don’t slip that disc!

Elsewhere in the bear pit that is the PA Birthday Thread, well they don’t get much bigger than this. Yes, please put those wonderful hands of yours to far better use than (this comment was removed by admin owing to its gratuitously obscene content) and give it large (is that better?) for the one and only Logan! Yep, one of our beloved Admin Team who keep us all safe and warm whilst debating all things prog celebrates his (ahem) 99th birthday today! 1922 in Vancouver? Come on, Greg. How old are you really, man?

You really can tell the mark of a chap from his forum signature, and they don’t come much deeper than this “The first step on the path to wisdom is the recognition of one's own ignorance" (paraphrased from Plato). Our admins ignorant? Never! Bloody fantastic bunch, and it is a fact that Greg is a mighty fine chap, and part of a mighty fine team, and we send him all our best wishes. As a measure of how much we love him, he holds what must be a record 656 thanks. 656! Now that’s what I call a bloody good boss! Note to Admin.....is that enough to earn the fifth star, mate? If not, PM me, and I can always edit this before beddie byes. Ta!

And before we sign off for the night, I have some breaking news which has f**k all to do with birthdays, but will bring just as much of a warm glow to the hearts of every decent person on the site, even more than our love for Greg (5 stars, please. Long overdue!). Yep, the ubiquitous Piers “Morgan” Moron has resigned from his breakfast tv show owing to the fact he attracted a record number of complaints to our gogglebox regulator for comments made about the saintly Megan Markle following her interview on CBS with Ian Wright wearing a wig last night. Here is the breaking news; Piers Morgan quits Good Morning Britain after Meghan Markle row - Mirror OnlineAnd here is Wrighty without the wig; Watch: Ian Wright does hilarious celebration after Hector Bellerin's goal - PlanetFootball Fooled those Yanks completely into believing that some women called Oprah did it!

Phew! Time for bed, said Zebedee! 

Not so today. Today was a little bit of a challenge, friends. I have, however, settled on soundfactor, or Carlo Delicati as he was named in a sweaty mass of a ravioli infused maternity ward 57 years ago today. Carlo announced himself as a producer in January 2006 who also enjoyed gardening and the intertit. The forum name, and, of course, his posting history were designed to flog us all something, or as Carlo might put it, introduce the masses to some extremely exciting new music, and his post wanted us to give If a chance. As you can see, this did not exactly send the brethren into a writhing mass of excitement http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=16976 Regrettably, the link to the nu-prog female vocalist who was If has been lost to the digital equivalent of the rubbish tip down the road, and Carlo’s brave efforts were all in vain. 

However, all is not lost, because Sound Factor and our Carlo are still very much with us. Here he is on Linkedarms Carlo Delicati - Remote Recording Audio and Video Engineer - Drums Circle | LinkedIn And here is the website you will all be visiting diligently from now on And Then Carlo was not entirely neutral about And Then, as he plays bass and keys. I gave Skin on Skin a wee listen just now, and can safely say that the Prog Gods who make up our new additions collabs will not be spending a huge amount of time evaluating this. Actually, no time at all. However, if you go onto the current projects part of the site, you might want to give beardy folky types, The Boxty Boys, a listen. Not bad if you groove to that sort of thing. Here is their website Buy Cd or downloads And lastly, here is Carlo’s Tweety Pie page https://twitter.com/carlodelicati 

So! Let us shout out Tanti Auguri a Te to our wonderful producer! If only If had been any good, eh? What might have been?

Elsewhere, no present collab news to report. 

The theme for tonight’s extravaganza is food. Yep, dejeuner. Scoff. Tucker. 

And first, to celebrate, we really must pay a visit to the world of jimjamtwo, all the way from The Land of Skippy, The Bush Kangaroo. Actually, I can’t let that pass without sharing the wonderful theme tune showcasing easily the most intelligent mammal ever to appear on TV. He would have pissed Mastermind! https://youtu.be/M7xHyYWUxXI Absolutely brilliant.

Our Aussie friend, whose name is sadly lost to us, celebrates his 62nd birthday today. He joined in May 2006, and didn’t bother the site censors once in the nearly two years he stayed. He registered as a teacher, but I don’t believe a word of it. Yep, I believe that this was what by now is becoming a familiar pattern hereabouts in that Bruce was trying to advertise the services of a business, in this case Jim Jam. Have a look at the “consummate producer of high quality preserves and condiments” JimJam Foods, a consummate producer of high quality preserves and condiments. They have a farm shop in Stanley, so, please, any of you convicts residing nearby, please do give Maggie a call. She will certainly thank you for it.

Continuing the food theme, the next one really does make one wonder as to the mindset of some of the personages who register here. Take Gobbly, or Lucy Sausage who apparently celebrates her 39th birthday today. Now, there is a website advertising the services of said banger at Lucys Sausage, but this is based in New York, whereas our gobbling lady stated she was from dear old Blighty. There is also this from “Lord Lucy” https://www.lordlucy.com/post/sticky-sausage-and-vegetable-traybake, but that looks all a little bit too sophisticated for someone who seems to enjoy placing a Percy in her orifice. And, lastly, there is this  Sausage Archives - Lucy Loves Yep, this Lucy would have been the favourite, excepting for the fact that she states that she is in her forties. Nice looking scram, though! I will, naturally, refrain from posting any of the other links I found advertising gobbling sausages and male members. That, my dear friends, you can do all by yourself in the privacy of your own pit. Please do, though, remember the environment when you wash your sheets in the morning. Greta is watching!

So! Happy birthday Bruce and Lucy. Have a glass of Chardonnay with din dins on us!

Elsewhere in the seething proletariat of PA, it is a pleasure to wish our very good friend Doug McAuliffe a very happy 20th birthday, although how he lives with himself being so incredibly young and clever, I really don’t know. Doug joined us a couple of years ago, and is a regular contributor to our intellectual verses. Happy birthday sir!  Go easy on the apple pie! 

Take Golden Vampire, or Taylor Gordon as Mom and Dad named her 32 years ago today in The Home of the Brave. Little did they know on that auspicious day that Taylor would grow up to occupy the following job title. “I am Hamster Tits”. Now, in my line of work, I come across all sorts of weird and wonderful trades, but I must admit that Hamster Tits is a new one on me. Entering this wonderful occupation on Mr Googly does end up with a number of results showing the type of website which might just get one in trouble with the better half when she or he or they or them or no particular preference look over your shoulder to check what it is that you are ogling. So, please take yourself to a nice quiet room, get yourself under the sheets you only washed this morning after examining Ms Gobbly Sausage last night, and feast your eyes on this....

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Titillation really doesn’t get much better that that! Taylor spent her brief time on the site in 2007 stating that she hated vegans, calling one of our honoured brethren “dipplenit”, and extolling the virtues of a band by the name of Droopy and the Little Bartenders, who seem to be sadly lost to us.

Happy birthday, Taylor! Stay beautiful!

In addition, we should consider Aiden. Her real name is Christine, and it was her signature which captured my affection. “Love is death waiting to be revenged”. About as deep as it comes, my friends, and I find it a real shame that she didn’t bother to share any posting wisdom in the short time in 2007 she came here.

But the mother of signatures must surely go to Ulyaoth4. Now said Ulyaoth is well known to those members of the yoof fraternity who love staring at a screen endlessly and digitally shooting and blowing up stuff, although we sincerely hope that this does not extend to small mammals mammary glands, because Taylor really would be most upset. Ulyaoth, as any fule kno, is an Ancient from Eternal Darkness Ulyaoth | Villains Wiki | Fandom Apparently, his zombies self destruct if damaged, which does give us mortals some hope in the event of the  coming zombie apocalypse, I suppose. Our friend self identifies as a dude/dudette, which really does strike me as being better placed in California than Iceland, and he is 112 today. Well, he IS an ancient! He is also, I am afraid, by his own admission rather full of sh*t. Take a look at his signature. 

Having shared all of this with the clean living masses in April 2008, he spent a whole one minute here before disappearing forever. Why? I mean, why?

Elsewhere, I am afraid we have nobody from the current collab pool who can be arsed to post here anymore, so Drew and Gandalff will simply have to go without.