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The old MCG Scoreboard<\/h2>\n
I spent many hours at the Melbourne Cricket Ground as a youngster, wagging school, jumping fences, evading security guards to get into games etc.<\/p>\n
All part of growing up in Melbourne I guess.<\/p>\n
The scoreboard was an essential part of sport in Melbourne.<\/p>\n
This story is worth reading – MCG Scoreboard<\/a> – if, like me, you like the old scoreboards rather than the new digital ones, which bombard spectators with ads for gambling and other mass consumption items rather than sticking to the facts.<\/p>\n The scoreboard I grew up with at the MCG, which is now at Manuka Oval, was built in 1907.<\/p>\n Here it is in all its glory in the old City Stand (now gone) during the – 1981 VFL Grand Final<\/a>.<\/p>\n There were 112,964 spectators turned up that day.<\/p>\n It was the last time the scoreboard was used at the MCG.<\/p>\n Don’t mention who won!<\/p>\n Here is a story about the relocation of the scoreboard to – Manuka Oval<\/a> in Canberra.<\/p>\n This is what the board looks like now in its new location – it was relocated and rebuilt in November 1982.<\/p>\n This is what I have been listening to while working early this morning before I catch a flight home.<\/p>\n It fits with the theme of the day.<\/p>\n The – Idle Moments<\/a> – album was released on the Blue Note<\/a> label in 1965, two years after it was recorded.<\/p>\n The guitarist is – Grant Green<\/a> – who us one of my favourite guitar players.<\/p>\n He isn’t a player who would appear on many lists of the most famous jazz guitarists but he is close to the top of my list.<\/p>\n He recorded a massive number of tracks as a session player for Blue Note during the 1960s.<\/p>\n He was in the hardbop tradition while at Blue Note, but later branched out in the early 1970s and started paving the way for what we now call Acid Jazz.<\/p>\n On this album (and the title track) are the best players of the day:<\/p>\n 1. Joe Henderson<\/a> – tenor saxophone<\/p>\n 2. Duke Pearson<\/a> – piano<\/p>\n 3. Bob Cranshaw<\/a> – double bass<\/p>\n 4. Al Harewood<\/a> – drums<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nMusic – Idle Moments<\/h2>\n
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