1st Chiropractic Centre Expands

The 1st Chiropractic Centre is expanding again with the addition of another Chiropractor, making five Doctor Pim's in the one family. Dr Leyla Pirn will shortly be joining the family practice to help give a welcome boost for Chiropractic health here in Gibraltar.

— the Chiropractor! The health of your spine is possibly the biggest single factor in determining how healthy you are. The key to health is not waiting for symptoms. Do you wait for toothache before see ing a dentist, or miss seeing a car crossing the road, because you had poor eyesight.i Have you got an other body to live in should you wear this one out? Visit a Chiropractor today!

Millions of people _ visit Chiropractors every year and the numbers keep going up and up. No wonder it is the fastest drugless health care profession in the world today.

If you want to benefit from Chi ropractic call today on 44848 or you can e-mail: enquires^lstchiro.com or check out their website www.lstchiro.com

Chiropractic continues to grow from strength to strength in Gibral tar, with more and more people dis covering the ben efits of having their spine checked. After all everyone has had their hearing,eyes, teeth among other things checked right? But who checks your spine?

Millions o f visit Chiropractors every year

^Special equipment to allow re cording of the root canal length without having to take X-rays is available, called an apex locater, it tells the practitioner when the length of the canal is reached via a visual and audible signal. The reading is measured and so establishes the length of the canal. Another earlier method utilises a file in each canal and an X-ray taken,sometimes more than one X-ray is needed to estab lish the length of the canal, with the apex locater however no X-rays are required and so keeps the radiation dosage to the patient to the mini mum of one X-ray before treatment to get an idea ofcanal shape and size of abscess/lesion in the bone and one X-ray at the end of treatment to check that the root canal system has been completely filled and free from

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voids).

Once the root canal is ready for filling (no pain, no infection, clean root canal system)there are various methods to achieve this aim. A good root filling obturates(fills)the whole canal completely with no voids in the root canal.

The Dental Practitioner has to at tend special courses of instruction in the use of these modern techniques and equipment and then purchase the equipment which is expensive.

Continuous Professional Develop ment (CPD), 250 hours of post graduate activity over 5 years, is now a requirement to retain post graduate qualifications awarded by the FGDP of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and similarly to retain the practitioner's name in the Dental Register of the UK.

by James Martin

The Bucks: A TALE OF LOST CHERRIES

It is now nearly two years since I wrote on the band once known as Buck Cherry,so the time is ripe for another look at them given they are one of my favourite local attractions.

Nowadays they simply wish to be known as The Bucks. It would appear that somewhere along the rock and a^ll road the boys have lost their cherries! Given they boast a combined age of 254 years some would consider this occurrence long overdue.

I caught up with them a couple of months ago, when it was time to lock up your grannies as The Bucks began their world tour of Gibraltar. This began one Friday night at Corks and came to an exhausting end some 24 hours later at the Lord Nelson. In spite of this gruelling schedule the "boys" did manage to chat to me and reaffirmed that the band's own philosophy regarding choice of material mercifully re mained intact. Not a Mustang Sally within earshot, instead they prefer monly known single version of this great song. No, they showed their true breeding by doing the version found on what many believe to be the Sfo/ii's'finest album Let it Bleed, whose title was a parody of the Beatles'Let it Be. It is essentially the same song and I particularly like guitarist Stan's snarling playing, which adds a real edge. It was also one of the most popular choices at both gigs.

In the 1960s and 1970s there ex isted a phenomenon known as al bum bands. These bands tended to pooh pooh singles, concentrating instead on albums. Singles were commercial whereas artistes put out albums. If you tried that in to day's world of over hyped manu factured music you'd be lucky to get sales into double figures. Yet all

Tables To Its Frantic Rhythm

to choose numbers that are a little less well exposed but a lot more en joyable.

They have developed into quite a tight outfit and have a great front man in Zooney. With Michael on bass and vocal.s, Stan getting better and better on lead guitar.Bob Pugh on rhythm and the octogenarian drumming skills of Baz Wallace, they have become a much loved feature of the Rock's rock music scene.

The two venues they played at represent, in Corks, Gibraltar's newest live music location; whilst in the Lord Nelson we have Gibral tar's premier and best loved live music location. The Nelson is now the place for musicians and music lovers alike. The acoustics are not perfect (nowhem in Casemates is) but it more than makes up for this in other ways. And Corks too has the potential to offer some great nights of music, although its loca tion may put it at a disadvantage for late night gigs.

The Bucks set includes some real gems.One of my favourites was an old Stones' number Honki/ Tank WoHKUj. Not for the Bucks the com- those years ago bandssold millions of albums without having to release a single. Even more incredibly some of those album tracks became as well known as hit singles.

Take for example Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven.One of the most familiar rock songs in the world it was never released as a single(Rolf Harris,ofcourse,took it into the UK charts). The Bucks didn't attempt Stainvay to Heaven, they did, how ever, dip into the majestic album from which it came,known simply as Led Zeppelin 4, or ZOSO, on ac count of its symbols.Following the riff driven rock of the album's opener. Black Dog, comes Rock and Roll,and this was the song the Bucks chose to perform for us. It went down well, especially at Corks where some in a part)' from GBC were seen to be banging their hands on the tables to its frantic rhythm, and,surely not, head banging along as well! I understand the cheque is in the post so I won't be naming names!

Some bands achieve immense success,sell millions of albums,and apparently cannot put a foot wrong. Until, that is the self styled purveyors of taste turn against them. One band that rode the tide after Live Aid only to suffer a criti cal backlash later on were Dire Straits. They almost single handedly took rock music into the CD age and then guitarist Mark Knopfler sensing the impending backlash blew the whistle on the band, preferring to concentrate on his solo career. Good on the Bucks then for reminding us of just how good Dire Straits were by including a great version of Moruy For Noth ing, from the multi million selling Brothers in Arms album.The follow ing day it inspired me to blow the dust off some Straits' albums, the true sign of a song well done.

Now what kind of age group en joys The Bucks? Well, at the risk of sounding ageist (a bit late for that maybe)I was surprised to see a real cross section getting off on the band. When a group of young girls arrived to celebrate an 18th birth day party I did wonder how they would relate. After all it appears that rock bands are becoming less mainstream as dance music takes over. In the event the youngsters responded enthusiastically to the band and were the only people there to dance. Who says rock mu sic is dead.

Mind you even the dead would find it hard to resist dancing to the

energy of Dr Feelgood's classic track

Down at the Doctorsl The masters of English rhythm and blues from delight everyone with a great ver sion of Steve Harley and the Cockney Rebels'Make Me Smile(Come Up and See Me.) Not an easy song to per form it worked perfectly, with Bob, Zooney and Stan doing the back ing vocals and three part harmo nies.

Once again the Bucfcs'penchant for selecting material just that little bit different paid off handsomely.

Talking to drummer Baz Wallace after the gig he told me:"We are still determined not to do Mustang Sally, Hotel California, Knockmg on Heav ens Door and all those songs every body does. It's not that they aren't good songs, far from it. We just want to do something different, that we enjoy. The only version of Hotel California I like is the one by the Eagles because nobody else can do it properly. If we had to do those songs I'd sooner pack it in."

Canvey Island in Essex featured two of the most colourful charac ters in rock in the late Lee Brilleaux, and ace guitarist Wilko Johnson.

But it wasnot all rough and gutsy rock music. The night had some contrast. This was best typified when Michael took over vocals to

That would be a really sad way to end his musical career. Baz has been playing for some time now,his best-known role being one Barry Jenkin (sic), in the 60s' band The Nashville Teens. He has also played with Screaming Lord Sutch before he formed the Monster Raving Loony Party,and hassqueezed in a military career, which saw him do ing such diverse thing as patrolling the Malayan jungle and guarding a Welsh oil refinery.

You can catch the Bucks at Corks or the Lord Nelson... keep an eye out for details.

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