IVOR’S FRIENDS
A new ROCK BLUES BAND is born.
R’n’B
IVOR’S FRIENDS (Gli amici di Ivor)
in memory of the little Girl Guide who was (by consensus) seduced from him.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ivors-Friends/262623057146557
(After Line Up listing you’ll find the information about the name inspiration)
Line Up:
Fabio Di Paolo………………………
Bass Guitar and author (already playing live with me years ago)
Dario Blues Di Nardo……………..
Drums, Voice, Farts, Burps and other special effects and author an lyrics writer.
Fabrizio “Bakko” Baccalà……………..
Lead Guitar and author
Giovanni Di Virgilio aka Johnny Rock, Johnny Blues (Depend on his outfit)
Lead Guitar and author.
Giovanni Iommi Liberatoscioli……………..
Lead Guitar, Voice and author.
Friends and special guests
Alessio Tupone……………..
Guitar and author
Giuseppe D’Ercole………………….
Guitar (proto-Virus and The Full)
picture taken from my own The Full’s archive
Marco Del Borrello………………….
Guitar (Planar Evil, The Full, Virus Inside)
Nicola, Nick Abruzzese, Di Virgilio….
Bass Guitar (Phidge)
picture taken from my own archive
Diego Di Nardo (Mascotte)
Band’s name history and meaning:
Keywords: The Who, Girl Guide, Ivor the engine driver, Keith Moon, John Entwistle, Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, Mini Rock Opera.
The name refers to figure taken from a Rock Mini Opera wrote by The Who’s guitarist Pete Townshend in the sixties.
The Opera tells about a little school guide who was by consensus seduced from Ivor, who’s an Engine Driver, because her boyfriend was away from home from a long time (her man been gone, for nigh a year), and she was so sad (blue).
Friends tell her about a remedy, the remedy was surely to take the life easily and have fun (it’s not directly declared), but she recognized the remedy in form of Ivor… and had fun with him.
During the act (the copulation) the boyfriend come back home after long time and catches the couple in the act….
Pete describe the scene in this way: This, this seduction, is rather lengthy. And, because it’s so long the, uh, boyfriend, who’s very very late indeed and he deserves what he gets never the less, he comes in right in the middle of the seduction and he catches the couple in the act.
The end is that He (the boyfriend) forgive the Girl Guide and they lived happily ever after…
Listen the song, listen or read the words with which Pete explain the song and enjoy it.
It’s one of my favorite songs over all…..
Great sound, great text, great emphasis, great story, great performance and performers.
LISTEN HERE ——–> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN6ZpEpVU18
What nobody wants from his own girl…. What scares attract…
To know about the song directly by Pete’s voice listen from Minute 4:50 of that tube file
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Transcription of Pete’s and audience’s chat
(Taked from http://lukpac.org/aqointro.html):
A Quick One Intro
Note: text in italicsand {braces} is dialog that was cut off of the remastered CD.
Pete: We’d like to, do for ya now, the uh, little, set of numbers which, we call Tommy’s parents as you’ve probably read in the musical papers.
{Pete: And if we’ve ever played for any of you before, you probably know this piece of reportie that I’m just about to embark on.}
Pete: It’s the story, of our mini-opera. And, this mini-opera was something which we did on our second album.
{Pete: And uh, in a way, for in it’s time it was fairly adventurous
(feedback noise)
Pete: (to Bob Pridden) It’s feedin’ back.
Pete: And, uh, it was adventurous cause it was one story which took six different themes of music.}
Pete: And the story, uh, is about a girl guide (pause) who was seduced,
(Audience cheers)
Keith: get um off ya
Pete: by an old engine driver. And it’s ya know, funny, social comment, thing, and uh, John Entwistle plays the engine driver,
(Audience cheers)
Pete: the seducer
Keith: the black raper
Pete: Ahh, yes! And I play the girl guide
(Audience cheers)
Keith: get um off!
(Audience member mumbles something)
Pete: later!
{Pete: And (laugh), and, uh, the seduction takes place while the girl guide’s boyfriend is away from home, and uh, she’s weeping because he’s been away so long
Audience: awwww
Pete: and some of her friends say “we have a remedy” and you’ll hear that chorus, we have a remedy, and the reme
(Audience laughs)
Pete: the remedy, the remedy is ahh, of course, the old engine driver
(Audience laughs)
Pete: who’s a randy old bastard and uh, they they know, that, with, with him she’ll be alright.}
Pete: And uh. So what happens is uh, they uh, fo they uh, fornicate
Audience: ohhhh
Pete: and, uh (laughs).
Keith: What’s that?
Pete: Pardon?
Keith: What’s that Pete? I thought it was a little station outside of Chipping Ongar.
Pete: No no no!
Keith: That’s the trouble always sitting here in the back.
Pete: He always gets off at the wrong stop. Any, anyway (laugh).
{Pete: This, this seduction, is rather lengthy. And, because it’s so long the, uh, boyfriend, who’s very very late indeed and he deserves what he gets never the less he comes in right in the middle of the seduction and he catches the couple in the act. And uh, I’d like you to imagine this scene (long pause).}
Pete: (to band) Assemble the musicians! And uh, {the reason that the seduction takes so long is because Ivor, as, he’s an engine driver naturally, doesn’t come on time!
(Audience laughs, drumroll)
Pete: (In Ivor voice) “Ohhhh, bloody me! It’s takin’ longer than usual.” He’s lookin at the watch he got for his retirement you see all covered in soot. Anyway, in he comes, the boyfriend catches them
Keith: Ah ha! Oh oh, ohhhhhhh!
Pete: (In boyfriend voice) “all over me best persian!”
(Audience cheers/laughs)
Pete: But, instead of rebuking them, duly, duly rebuk, instead of duly rebuking them, as it was, ahead of it’s time and remember this was three years ago, uh we anticipated the feelings of peace and love and pacifism and all that kinda thing which were to come, represented as, (mumbles). And uh, and such such is such is life, he forgives them. He sees them there and he forgives them. He loves to watch that sort of thing!
Pete: Anyway, we’ll get on with it now, and uh, we’ll welcome you to the Frankie Howerd Show next time. And uh, this is,} we do feature normally, {you normally would feature} Keith Moon singing, but today we’ll just have to feature him. If you would like to stand Keith.
Keith: Yes, ok now, is that it?
Pete: Yes, and it’s called A Quick One, While He’s Away. “Two, three.”
INFOS FROM WIKIPEDIA:
A Quick One, While He’s Away
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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“A Quick One, While He’s Away” |
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Song by The Who from the album A Quick One |
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| Released | December 9, 1966 | |||
| Recorded | IBC Studios, Pye Studios, and Regent Sound: early November 1966 | |||
| Genre | Rock, power pop, pop rock | |||
| Length | 9:10 | |||
| Label | Reaction Records (UK) Decca Records (as “Happy Jack”, U.S.) |
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| Writer | Pete Townshend | |||
| Producer | Kit Lambert | |||
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A Quick One track listing |
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“A Quick One, While He’s Away” is a 1966 medley written by Pete Townshend and recorded by The Who for their album A Quick One. The song also appears on the album BBC Sessions. In the performance on their Live at Leeds album Townshend calls the 9 minute “epic” track a “mini-opera” and introduces it as “Tommy‘s parent”. This song tells the story of an unnamed girl whose lover has been gone “for nigh on a year.” Her friends inform her that they “have a remedy”; the remedy comes in the form of Ivor the Engine Driver. When the lover returns, the girl confesses her infidelity, and she is ultimately forgiven.
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[edit] Parts to the song
The song has six distinct sections. The brief harmonized a cappella intro is titled “Her Man’s Gone”. The “Crying Town” section is sung by Roger Daltrey in an atypical low register. Daltrey also sings “We Have a Remedy” in his more usual voice. John Entwistle plays “Ivor the Engine Driver” in that section. Then comes “Soon Be Home”, another harmonized section. Finally, “You Are Forgiven” is sung by Pete Townshend — his only lead vocal on the album (except, on most versions of the album, a small part of “Heat Wave”).
This song is The Who’s first publicized venture into the rock opera genre,[1] although the song “I’m a Boy” was the result of Townshend’s first delve into rock opera, entitled “Quads”, and a precursor to their later, more ambitious project Tommy. A studio recording appears on their A Quick One album, and a live recording appears on Live at Leeds. Curiously, when the song was performed live, instead of “girl”, Townshend and Daltrey would make a point to sing “Girl Guide“. A video performance was made for The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, and can be seen on that video and on the documentary film The Kids Are Alright. It also appears on both films’ soundtrack albums. Another version recorded live at the Monterey Pop Festival can be found on the Monterey Pop Festival four-disk set and on another Who film, Thirty Years of Maximum R&B Live. A mixed studio and live version can be found on The Who’s four disk set Thirty Years of Maximum R&B.
Another version of this song is available on the DVD, At Kilburn 1977 + Live at the Coliseum, with Townshend’s long explanation of the song and constant humorous comments by Keith Moon. However, because of problems with the cameras, part of the performance is lost, and was replaced by stylised footage.
The section where the band repeats the word “cello” was done as a joke. The band wanted a string section to play in the song but Kit Lambert said that they couldn’t afford it, so they just repeated the word where the cello was supposed to play.
The Live at Leeds version of the song was used in the soundtrack of the movie Rushmore (though the Rock and Roll Circus version, specifically “You Are Forgiven”, was used in the film).
A short tease of the final section, “You Are Forgiven”, was used to end a concert at the Wembley Arena on November 16, 2000. That was the first time any part of the song was played live since 1970, and also the last time so far.
The song was rehearsed for inclusion in The Who’s 2006/2007 North American Tour, but was not part of any set list.
[edit] Covers
Graham Coxon performed the song in late 2004 at the Queens of Noize Christmas Party.
My Morning Jacket performed a cover of the song at the 2006 Bonnaroo Music Festival and on several European dates during their stint as an opening act for Pearl Jam in the same year, when the latter’s frontman Eddie Vedder would join them on stage. One such occasion (9/19/06, PalaIsozaki, Torino) is documented as a bonus track on the DVD version of the Pearl Jam concert film Immagine in Cornice. My Morning Jacket covered the song again during the encore of night 4 of their 5-day concert series at New York City’s Terminal 5 in 2010.[2]
Green Day recently recorded a cover that was included as a bonus track on deluxe editions of their recent album 21st Century Breakdown. They have also performed all six sections of the song at sound checks. The band performed the song in its entirety at their July 28, 2009 concert at New York City’s Madison Square Garden and also on April 25, 2010 at New York City’s Bowery Electric as their side-project Foxboro Hot Tubs.
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Giovanni said
grande dario… gran gruppo gli ivor’s friend….
fabrizio baccala said
bravo dario!!!