BOC: Sunday Times review

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

On 01/08/2006 12:35, Ted Jackson wrote:
> As much as I love the band, I have to admit I agreed 
> with some of the points in that scathing review.
> BÖC ARE a nostalgia act, and I think they have done
> that to themselves.  I just saw Little Feat last Sunday,
> and they are a geezer band who never play the same 
> set 2 nights in a row.  They may include a couple of
> songs that show up in nearly every set, but apart from
> that, their set list is wide open...

I'm vote myself onto this band-wagon.  BOC give the impression of, for 
whatever, not really trying.  Sure, they're down a couple of key 
original members and disassociated from Pearlman, who was a big 
influence back in the day.  But, then again, the Allman Bros are 
currently missing, what? 3 key original members (only 2 of whom are 
actually dead) and have cycled through quite a number of line-up changes 
and traumas even in the last dozen years.  Yet they still turn out 
extremely vital shows with different set-lists each night and have even 
turned out some eminently respectable (if not life-changing) studio 
albums.  They may never have a another radio hit, but then they never 
had that many to start with, and who the heck needs a radio hit when you 
sell out 9 nights at the Beacon, have a comfy back catalogue, and can 
still turn out some solid new material that sells respectably?

Clearly, the _option_ is there, even for "geezer bands without their 
original line-ups".  The Allmans still have cred, wheras BOC have ... a 
virtuoso guitarist and an excellent catalog that hasn't been expanded on 
significantly since 1982 :/   The last tBS album _alone_ had more good 
tracks (i.e. the whole album, basically) than post-1982 BOC (not 
counting _Imaginos_! :) has produced in its entirety.

Cheers,
Carl

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