Cult Classic and Mork

Jason js3619 at ACMENET.NET
Mon Mar 28 18:36:33 EST 2005


>The answer to this, I think, is in the BOC FAQ
>(http://members.aol.com/bocfaqman), but the short answer is that BOC was
>no longer under contract to Sony, I believe that the producers of "The
>Stoned Age" wanted to use "The Reaper" but couldn't use the original
>version without paying high royalty fees, so BOC planned to record a new
>version.  Having not yet secured a new record contract, they decided to
>release a whole album's worth of their hits.  There's more to it, but
>that's what I recall off the top of my head.

This same reasoning might explain why I heard The Reaper used in a
commercial to promote the Mork and Mindy "behind the scenes movie of the
week" on NBC.  The riff was surely Reaper, but the vocals and guitar fills
(like the one before"like romeo and juliet) were differently mixed --- the
latter sounded Boston-ly double tracked.

Jason


>John



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