BOC: Astoria

[Stephen Swann]

On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Andy Gilham wrote:

> Good gig!
>
 [...]

> Highlights: A-number-one "Last Days", smashing "Live for Me" (I was
> surprised how much I liked that one), super "Vigil" (in spite of

I hate you Andy.

I've been to see BOC something like 8 times, and I've yet to see The
Vigil.

Last Days really has turned into a sort of mini-epic, though, hasn't it?
At least if you got the version Buck has been performing in the States for
the last few years.  The last time I saw them was about 3.5 years ago in
Raleigh, and I was blown away by that song.  "A transcendant guitar
playing odyssey"  was the overblown-sounding description I conceived at
the time.  ;-) But, even as overtstated as it sounds, I think the song
(and Buck's playing) have become so amazing that it deserves a hyperbolic
description like that...

> Rondinelli's crash-bang drumming which nearly spoiled it), "Lips", "Reaper",
> "Telepaths".
>
> And the chorus of "you fat bastard" during the drum solo!  Only in
> England...

What the hell is that from?  I've got s friend who uses that line
occasionally, and he won't say where he got it from (actually, I have to
suspect he was drunk when he picked it up, and doesn't remember...)

Steve