HW: Re: HW: Brock Interview - Star One

[filip.vanhuyse]

WOEHA !!


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Subject: HW: Re: HW: Brock Interview - Star One


> Huw is down here in Devon at the moment in the studio contributing away!
> (with a healed arm!)
>
> Kris :-)
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jonathan Jarrett <jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK>
> To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 4:36 PM
> Subject: Re: HW: Brock Interview - Star One
>
>
> > On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 12:22:45PM -0400, Chris Raymond typed out:
> > > Heard the Dave Brock interview from totalrock that played last week.
> Real
> > > interesting. He said that Huw had an injured elbow and was not able to
> > > contribute much guitar playing to the new album. Also that Mike
Moorcock
> is
> > > doing some spoken word pieces.
> >
> >         That's not good news about Huw. On the other hand, it suggests
> > that they're keen on getting it done quickly because otherwise
presumably
> > he'd have time to heal up. Hope he'll be all right by mid-next month.
Good
> > to hear Moorcock's cool not that Doug Smith is out of the picture,
> > although I still don't think Marion is exactly a full substitute (and
> > somebody's *got* to buy Doug's portion of EBS... ) But anyway.
> >
> > > They played the Hawkwind medley that Dave sang on for that Star One
cd.
> It
> > > sounded really good. I would like to hear the rest of the disc. If the
> rest
> > > of the cd is anywhere as good as the medley, then it is probably
> fantastic.
> > > Has anyone heard the whole disc?
> >
> >         Yes. The medley's different to the rest in terms of, I don't
know,
> > it has more grit and less pretention, though not much less. There's a
> > forgettable version of `Space Oddity' on the bonus disc too but
otherwise
> > it's pretty consistent, overblown power metal with masses of synth
> > content. Most of the instruments are by the boy Arjen, who can't play as
> > well as he thinks he can, I think, but there are some guest soloists who
> > turn out plenty of yer power-metal widdling, including synth-guitar
duels
> > and stuff like that. Terribly terribly
I-would-love-to-think-it's-tongue-
> > in-cheek-but-I-don't-think-it-is. Like Rainbow with the teeth removed
and
> > extra hair. But no, hang on, I'm not being quite fair. Once you allow
for
> > the fact that it's decidedly operatic in aspiration and that though
Arjen
> > may think it's heavy I own some Electric Wizard albums that cause me to
> > differ from him on this, it's (hush, look the other way) actually quite
> > *good* in places. Some effective use of harmonies, some quite good
pieces
> > of music, lyrics not always terrible (I mean, they beat John Shirley's
but
> > you can tell Arjen doesn't have a very good grasp of what's a hideous
> > cliche or skull-numbingly naif), and of course there's the fun of
working
> > out what films he's using. It's by and large obvious if you've seen them
> > and in some cases even if you haven't, which means that if like me you
> > hadn't seen any Blake's Seven you must avoid hearing the lyrics so as
not
> > to have the plot entirely exposed to you.
> >
> >         So, yes, it's terribly cheesy but I can't actually slag it off
as
> > fully as my sense of taste tells me I should because parts of it are
> > really quite fun. The packaging is gorgeous. The music manages to stick
in
> > my brain so I can't say it's forgettable. The medley is lots of fun, but
> > the actual album is no disgrace even if it's no _Imaginos_ either. Just
> > ensure you have your poodle-metal sensors turned right down before
> > listening... Yours,
> >                     Jon
> >
> > ObCD: DarXtar - _Daybreak_
> > --
> >         Jonathan Jarrett                Birkbeck College, London
> >                  jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk
> >         --------------------------------------------------------
> >   "The large print giveth and the small print taketh away." (Tom Waits)
> >
>