He Is The Eggman / March 23 2008
When I got home from the Enormous rehearsal yesterday, I sat in the studio with a big, dark chocolate Easter egg from the Co-op and a bottle of fighting rum from the off-license ready for an afternoon of mixing some execrable heavy-metal music.
As I was closing the big sash windows in the control-room, my attention was drawn to a group of small children who were playing in the street below. They were singing a well known nursery rhyme:
‘Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall,
All the King’s horses and all the King’s men,
Couldn’t put Humpty together again.’
It made me realise how such innocent verse can often be very candid and prescient, and how effective it is at teaching essential life lessons. The above rhyme concerning Mr Dumpty’s fatal mishap, for instance, demonstrates very succinctly how imprudent it would be to employ horses – especially horses belonging to a king – in the mending of broken eggs. It simply cannot be done. No opposable thumbs, you see.
On the Fantastic hi-fi today:
London Calling - The Clash
Filed under Childhood / Easter / Recording Studio
Comments
4 comments on “He Is The Eggman”
Jo Beaufoix / March 23rd, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Yep and they can’t actually see chocolate. It’s a fatal flaw.
Napoleon Fantastic / March 23rd, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Jo,
I knew that horses couldn’t see chocolate but was Mr Dumpty made of it? I never knew that.
Nelson Galaxy / March 25th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
How did the rehersal go?
Napoleon Fantastic / March 26th, 2008 at 11:21 am
Very well as always.
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