UK Old Codgers Reminiscences Corner

[JSngry]

Not sure if we're dealing with a Codger here or not....

Anybody who doesn't dig EW&F is a codger afaic (UK, old, or otherwise), so I think your presumption is correct!

[kinuta]

To be clear what a codger is. You are a codger if some (not necessarily all) of the following apply to you:

1. 
   
   
2. You are over 50
   
3. You go to jazz concerts with one of the following - a goatee beard, a beret, a duffle coat, a 'Ban the Bomb' badge, a slim, 20-something French poppet
   
4. You tut when you see a laptop on stage
   
5. You tut when you hear a synth or drum machine or a rapper on a record
   
6. You talk about records instead of songs
   
7. You tut when you see an electric bass on stage
   
8. You tut when you see a double bass and guitar on stage instead of a tuba and banjo (Gold Class Codger there)
   
9. You think Miles sold out when he went electric
   
10. You thing Wynton sold out when he refused to go electric
    
11. You remember buying records in Collets
    
12. You now look like James Bolam on 'The Beiderbecke Affair'
    
13. You have ever, in any context, used the phrase 'And you call that music?'
    
14. You are watching the Royal Wedding (regardless of the Che Guevara poster you still keep from your student days)
    

I can only manage eight out of thirteen. But I'm an old codger in most respects.

Definitely in the right age group.

Most of the musical phobias don't apply,I try to stay open minded about music.

The refs to Collets and 'The Beiderbecke Affair' are lost on me. Being a fully paid up member of The South Yorks Socialists For The Abolition Of The Monarchy I can assure you I didn't watch 'The Wedding'