BOC: Eerie Soundalike

[Jeff Thompson]

Heh -- check this. http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnin_Red_Ivanhoe

Amusingly, they toured as the opening band for Spooky Tooth, the band 
name-checked in
Stalk-Forrest's "A Fact About Sneakers."

More amusingly, an offshoot of the band with some of the same personnel 
called themselves
Secret Oyster.  I think we have confirmation they liked BOC.

-- Jeff



>     There's some good stuff there, and I certainly see the 
> resemblance; creepy organ throughout, and the same sort of choppiness 
> in some of the tunes. More contemplative (or, as one might have it, 
> boring) across some of the other tracks, and I certainly hear Eric's 
> point about Arthur Brown in the occasional breaks into falsetto. I 
> might also add some Jethro Tull influence to the mix here and there. 
> In fact, if you had only heard Tull and the Doors and decided "hey, 
> this could go a bit *faster* couldn't it?" you might get roughly here 
> without BÖC ever crossing your radar, but the resemblance is still 
> there I think. Parallel evolution?
> URL for the lazy: http://www.myspace.com/burninredivanprog/music
> Yours,
>     Jon
>