OFF: Kingdom Come,

[Douglas Pearson]

Chris sed:

>At 17:53 17.12.97 -0600, you wrote:
>>>>ObCD: Kingdom Come _Journey_

Isn't this actually "on-topic"?  I don't have the album, but I thought the
drummer was Dracken Theaker, who later played with Pete Pavli in Michael
Moorcock's Deep Fix (see HWF&R vols.1 & 3) ...

>As for that CD (remaster w/bonus tracks!) I picked it up cheap on impulse
>because I've wanted to hear the post Crazy World stuff, and it totally
>clicks the right switches in my head... kzzzt... cosmic goth-prog
spacerock
>- my favorite genre! The CD looked like it had lingered for years in th
shop
>just waiting for me....
>
>>And do you have Adrian Wagner's Distances Between Us with Calvert doing a
>>moog and arp version of Steppinwolf....?

Very cool version - completely different from the later Hawkwind one.  It
reminds me of Calvert's later mininalist/synth/sequence stuff ('Hype',
'Test-Tube Conceived'), but without the catchy melodies that Bob would
write - instead, just haunting electronics.

>Brown was also on Song Of The Gremlin on Calvert's Lockheed album of
>course.

... even more on-topic!

        -Doug
         ceres at sirius.com

ObCD Metal Urbain _L'Age D'Or_