Nik wants into all your wallets NOW :)

Jonathan Smith smithjm77x7 at GMAIL.COM
Sun Aug 25 00:30:36 EDT 2013


With the SRS live album he seemed to have got somewhere but maybe there wad
not enough support to keep it going....

Bedouin seemed like it might do something, although I prefer his later
albums. They are not that consistent. Maybe there isn't too much market for
space rock? Shame, I am sure the world needs more of it :〉
On 25 Aug 2013 10:58, "Carl Edlund Anderson" <cea at carlaz.com> wrote:

> On 24 Aug 2013, at 21:41 , Jonathan Smith <smithjm77x7 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > Better to ignore it all and focus on the new stuff.
> > Alan is doing a second *Al Chemical* album-- maybe what he wants to
> > do.  Excellent  in my book but probably not a money spinner.
>
> IMO, Alan needs if not a stable band around him, at least some stable
> songwriting partners.  Al's playing is great, and he is capable of writing
> some absolute corkers -- but I don't think he comes out with enough of
> those corkers, fast enough, to just blow everyone's and their dog's minds
> often enough.  Maybe it doesn't really matter, since the music industry is
> so screwed up these days (I mean, more than ever) any way, but I always
> feel like his efforts end up too diffused: Bedouin somehow wobbled around
> for years in the '90s, straight through the whole original stoner rock
> trend (which they totally should have exploited) without ever producing
> very much. Gunslinger is sort of on again, off again, with variant lineups.
> His solo stuff is similar. Then there are his cover bands, like the
> Motorhead thing and the Psych Warlords; I guess those pay the bills (or why
> do them?) but you can put me down as another person who wants to hear
> something new.  His guesting on the last Pre-!
>  Med album generated some fantastic playing, but he was really just a
> pinch-hitter there.  Oh well!
>
> Cheers,
> Carl
>
> --
> Carl Edlund Anderson
> http://www.carlaz.com/
>



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