Best Before 2007

We used to have a website a few years back and I thought we had lost everything but thanks to the 'Way Back Machine', I am now recovering some of our lyrics. As Dan has just reworked this particular song and sent it to me I'm now working on the vocals and maybe add a baseline - I shall put it up, along with new tracks 'Hekis Tebal' and 'The Tasmaanians', in a day or two.

Best Before - the bushpilots

Man has survived for thousands of years without sell-by dates
Take the chance, no consequence, don't hesitate
You can't go on, forever checking the ingredients
Listen to us,take the chance,you know we're making sense

But don't come running to me
When you're wasting away with dysentery
And don't even call me up
When your brain is fried and your nerves are shot

Man has survived for thousands of years without sell-by dates
Take the chance, no consequence, don't hesitate
You can't go on, forever checking the ingredients
Listen to us, take the chance,you know we're making sense

And don't put the blame on me
When you suddenly develop epilepsy
You'll be turning in your grave, young fella
When the tag on your toe reads 'salmonella'

Man will survive for a thousands more years without sell-by dates
Take the chance, no consequence, don't hesitate
You can't go on, forever checking the ingredients
Listen to us,take the chance,you know we're making sense

And you won't find nothing amusing
When you wake up on a table with a blood transfusion
So don't ever turn my way
You knew the risks I've got nothing to say

New Year - a bit late!

I haven't got off to a very good start here but I shall try to better my pathetic 22 entries of last year and the dismal 5 entries of 2005.

We had a few bombs go off in Bangkok on New Years Eve but I was far from the action, so to speak, in a small town called Pak Chong near Khao Yai National Park.

This is a very strange little town that seems to have adopted a permanent theme of a cowboy town, due to the fact that Thailand's largest dairy farm, Chokchai Farm, is nearby.

Anyway, we'd been camping in Khao Yai National Park until New Years Eve but it suddenly got inundated by hundreds of Thais just off work and seeking some fun for their holidays so, being as unsocialable as I am and wanting to avoid lots of people armed with guitars, cheap whiskey and squeaking wives, we decided to head to Chokchai Farm for a visit and stay in Pak Chong that night.

We ended up finding a very nice camp site and later heard that they were having a New Year's party with food and beer, etc, with a cowboy theme of course! We therefore decided to see in 2007 Thai cowboy style!

It was so bad that it was good! I managed to win several bottles of Chang Beer in the little fair that they had organised which emboldened me to later murder a rendition of 'Love is all Around' by the Troggs.

Here are a few photos.

My recently-purchased second-hand Mazda that got us up there, a real cowboy breakfast, 'Chang'-ed up and Karaoke.