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Postby HappyCamper

the songs dragon attack, need your loving tonight, and crazy little thing called love feature on which studio album by queen, noted for the band's first extensive use of the synthesizer?

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Postby Holden Chinaski

Which British guitarist, who was born in Sheffield in 1930 and died in 2005, was a member of free improvisation groups such as Iskra 1903, Company, and The Spontaneous Music Ensemble?

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Postby chengdufan

Prop wrote:Where would you find a ‘Bailey dump valve’?

At the top of Bill's legs

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Postby Prop

chengdufan wrote:
Prop wrote:Where would you find a ‘Bailey dump valve’?

At the top of Bill's legs


rofl

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Postby Prop

Holden Chinaski wrote:
Prop wrote:Where would you find a ‘Bailey dump valve’?

Inside an engine?


I’ll accept that. It’s mounted externally to the actual engine block, but it is part of the engine technically.

Very popular in the late 80s and early 90s on cars like the Ford Escort RS Turbo, the dump valve releases compressed air from a turbocharged vehicle’s intake when the throttle plate closes, preventing unnecessary load potentially damaging the turbocharger.

It’s the ‘tiiisssshhhh’ noise you’d hear between gears as Daz and Kylie toured the local high street attracting attention in their highly tasteful Max Power inspired hot hatch <laugh>

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Postby Holden Chinaski

Which American writer wrote the 1953 novel 'Junkie' (aka 'Junk' or 'Junky'), and published it under the pseudonym of William Lee?

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Postby SnookerEd25

Burroughs’ best known work is probably ‘the Naked Lunch’, which was long considered to be unfilmable, due to it’s unconventional structure and surreal tangents. Which director finally brought a version to the screen in 1991?

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Postby McManusFan

I really love that film. It's got the guy from Robocop in it. Now who's the bloody director? I used to know this, I went through a phase where I watched a bunch of his films.

It'll come to me later in the day.