More Imaginos

[BREVARD, Adrian R.]

JS>O.K., now you went too far!  ;-)

>Well, you can have your opinions on which concept album is best (and I
>certainly am a big fan of *Dead Winter Dead*).  The biggest problem with
>*Imaginos* as a concept album, IMHO, is that because it was not "
>"complete", and because the songs aren't really in the right order (I
>still say "Random Access History" is a fabricated myth to explain the
>bad sequence on the final product), it can be confusing to follow the
>"story" (o.k., we educated fans know what's going on, but to the
>uninitiated, do they really hear these songs as all part of a complete
>story?  My guess is no).

Oh no John nothing as deep as that, my thinking is far more shallow.
I'm talking strictly "listen-a-bility" here.  Imaginos as released by
Columbia rocks no question, it could have sounded lots better though if
there were a real commitment by those other than Al to make it a monster
album.  Nothing wrong with the concept, the original play order (I
prefer the suggested order of the liner notes) or anything like that I
just believe Imaginos could have sounded lots better than it did.

Clarifying the re-make issue, again if there was a real commitment by
others to this project and we had gotten the full version what we have
in our collections would have been different.  I'm assuming it would
have been even better.  I know Al has chimed in the last day or so but I
do recall way long ago I asked him directly about a desire to take
Imaginos to the stage and his reply was something akin to "in a New York
minute."  Yeah this is all in the realm of desires at this point but
admit it this is some of the best BOC related stuff on this list in a
loooooong time.

lil ab

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