(NIK) Otherworld at a glance/Open Letter To Nik

[mike coleman]

my copy is delightfully stolen although I'll grab a real one some day....
phil campbell is indeed great
Commander Jim wasn't supposed to be on it that I know of but then again I
know nothing other than what Trev (used) to tell me (he was on my mind as
the Naked cd had just come out)
I'll keep my lips sealed on things I maybe shouldn't have said but my
comments regarding hide and seek had not much to do with talent really
would you like the "free" aspect of this passed on to yourself???
mike
(I'm gathering you've peeked but not purchased)
ps-I've wondered for YEARS if I'd ever see 2 basses in a band,  just figured
it must be pointless
trev's on dave's radio show next week.....thank you dave.....
take an opportunity here: I mentioned Hawkwind pirate CD's yesterday, and I
wish to make clear all I was saying is that I got a hint the band knew about
them popping up and not just from one place////I fear I made it sound like
there was a connection and that was not my intention
exhale-
m


On 1/8/08, Jonathan Jarrett <jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 09:32:21PM -0600, Objet Volant Non-Identifie typed
> out:
> > got to hear Otherworld today, albeit a bit in the background
> > my virtual bigmouth comment: fluff
>
>        I do actually need to get hold of this, if only to keep Nik in
> Brasso for the sax.
>
> > I am hearing Nik using vocal treatment that I hope (and pray) is
> > a forewarning of what will be to come
> > STUDIO ICU
> > abandoning the UNIT for so long truly is a testament to Nik's total
> > ATTITUDE,  because this band was like launching the equivalent of
> Motorhead
> > only possibly even better, never mind the money
>
>        I wish it could be so but I don't myself rate the chances
> highly. However, I still have a full set of arms and legs so am
> prepared.
>
> > there is one hopeful aspect: Slattery's (he is the guitarist right) days
> are
> > most likely numbered as it is, you see, Trev doesn't fancy him much, and
> > went after him, but alas he ran and managed to hide........
>
>        I think differently to you here, but possibly because you are
> not reading all the sleeve... Slattery is lead guitar, and more or less
> OK; Thomas Crimble is rhythm, and he only really has one and it plods.
> If I were being forced to be cruel in order to make Space Ritual as it
> manifests in the UK into a viable performing unit, the first thing I
> would do is persuade Mr Crimble into an immediate retirement. Trev would
> be a credible replacement, but as long as it's a rhythm player rather
> than a lead firebrand they're after why not grab Steve Bemand, he was
> with HW only slightly less than Crimble... Really they just ought to
> relegate Slattery to rhythm... replace or at least supplement Anderson
> with Ade Shaw (how could two bass players be a mistake, anyway?) and
> recruit Jerry Richards full-time, he guests often enough. That'd work.
> Though why exactly they'd all want to do it is harder to work out.
>
>
> > *I think Commander Jim is Hawkwind material and quite frankly if i got
> my
> > hands on a solo recording of him, I'd probably rank it above
> Otherworld.*
>
>        I've seen Jim be very indifferent and then there are days when I
> think fully Dik Mik's equal in the tasteful and overwowing swoosh
> department... but again, here he is not the only player unless `John
> "the Ghost"' who appears with them live has been relegated from the
> studio, and wasn't Del supposed to be on this album somewhere? So I
> think you may be crediting Jim with some other people's work here.
>
> > *Judge Trev goes without saying....where I come from the guitarmen are
> > usually the boss, and Trev founded and co-penned most if not all the
> classic
> > ICU stuff*
> > *Not having him next to you is like not having Fast Eddie Clarke next to
> you*
>
>        Alas, Nik still awaits his Phil Campbell, and if he had a Wurzel
> it would badly alter the band...
>
> > DISCLAIMER: THESE COMMENTS WERE ON A BACKGROUND LISTEN AND i RESERVE THE
> > RIGHT TO AMMEND ANYTHING i JUST SAID.
>
>        Or I'll do it for you! I jest. (You jest what? I jest amended
> what Mike C. said. Etc.) Yours,
>                                Jon
>
> ObCD: Fu Manchu - _The Action is Go!_
> --
> "When fortune wanes, of what assistance are quantities of elephants?"
>            (Juvaini, Afghan Muslim chronicler, c. 1206)
> Jon Jarrett, Fitzwilliam Museum, jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk
>