5. Randy Fitzsimmons
Randy Fitzsimmons is chief songwriter and manager for Swedish band The Hives, although he doesn't appear to actually play or perform with the band. As such, finding a photo of him was rather difficult. The internet claims that's him in the middle, with the glasses on, standing in between Iggy and Ringo. And, let's face it, if you get to stand in between Iggy and Ringo, with Jimmy Page close by, you've pretty much made it.
I like The Hives a lot whenever I listen to them. I don't listen to them a lot. Somehow, I manage to have accumulated four CDs by them, which I guess means they end up in charity shops a lot, since I've never bought one through more legitimate means. No surprise then, to see Charity Chic feature the band earlier on this month... although I was rather miffed when he selected my two favourite songs: Main Offender and Hate To Say I Told You So. Still, there's plenty more to go at, even though they do all start to sound the same after a while.
One thing I really like about The Hives is that they must be the most self-referential band in rock. I can find about half a dozen song titles wherein they directly reference themselves, and I only own a fraction of their output. These include: T.H.E. H.I.V.E.S.; The Hives Meet The Norm, The Hives Introduce The Metric System In Time, The Hives Declare Guerre Nucleair (which I'm guessing is French for the main aim of Donald Trump's presidency) and this... which is an instrumental. I don't often feature instrumentals here because, you know, I'm a lyrics kid. So whenever I do feature an instrumental, it has to be pretty cool...
Oh, and finally, I thought I'd throw in a link to lounge supremo Richard Cheese's cover of HateTo Say I Told You So because it's... niiiiice.
That's half my Randies done. Have I included your favourite yet?
Definitely not one of my Randys and wondered when you would veer off into more tenuous territory - A lot of info here though about a band I know very little about but is he also Swedish I wonder. Hard to tell but I feel sure there will be no British Randys in this series as just not a name for this country. I may however be wrong!
ReplyDeleteNo, I don't think there are any British Randies to follow. Yes, he's Swedish, although the rest of the back have much more Swedish sounding names...apart from Dr. Matt Destruction.
DeleteOops, you say Randies, I say Randys - might never have to use that word again but I defer to the English teacher.
DeleteSorry: I wasn't consciously correcting you. Just force of habit.
DeleteNow that's what I call digging deep for a Randy. Lost touch with the Hives long ago, but I quite enjoyed that.
ReplyDeleteNot too deep. When I typed Randy into my musical player Search box, his name came up a lot because of the composer credit on many of the Hives songs. Very little research is done for this feature!
DeleteOh, love this, not heard before, thanks. And I'm getting a great stereo effect from my two little add-on speakers here, it really works.
ReplyDeleteThe Randy that I've been waiting for has not been included yet - but I'm sure they will be.
Hmm... I am curious about who that might be. I only have two obvious ones left. (That I can remember.)
DeleteI didn't see that Randy coming! Nicely done Rol.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Swede...though I'm starting to wonder if I'm missing an obvious choice that everyone else is expecting!
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