Nik wants into all your wallets NOW :)

[Jonathan Smith]

Alan's web site/ store has gone. I suppose it will be back sometime soon.

In the  meantime, there is this: https://myspace.com/alandaveymusic


On 26 August 2013 23:17, mike c <insect.brain at gmail.com> wrote:

> thanks Jonathon, I did quickly go look at wiki but it's too early and
> I seem to get less and less sleep so I must take it back up later.
>
> Just for the record I do have a couple of Beduin CDs and a couple of
> Alan Davey CD's which are all basically great IMO, I am simply missing
> a ton of his material now.
> thanks for the Cybertip
> NOTED!!
>
> On 8/26/13, Jonathan Smith <smithjm77x7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > You have to be in the mood for Viv Stanshall, but he was a genius.
> > Everything he  recorded  is  available  through
> >
> > http://www.vivarchive.org.uk/
> >
> > or was at one time. I have a couple of DVDs full of his unique humour.
> >
> > *Captured  Rotation *is very good, but the sound (not the music) is a
> > little off somehow. *Cyber Tooth* is excellent but I can't see him
> touring
> > with it.
> >
> >
> > On 26 August 2013 22:53, mike c <insect.brain at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I'd appreciate anything about Viv Stanshall.
> >> I inherited a copy of Tubular Bells recently, and got to hear that
> >> after decades of hearing about it.
> >> I basically hate it but it certainly isn't Viv's fault :) :)
> >>
> >> and
> >>
> >> I can't remember if I asked here before, but Alan's "Captured
> >> Rotation" is a somewhat cherished recording to me, but the original CD
> >> seems like it suffers dramatically in mastering, whatever it is that
> >> makes the sound "thin".
> >> has that been repaired and I bet an LP could do wonders
> >>
> >> On 8/26/13, Jonathan Smith <smithjm77x7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > At least you can  actually  buy  obscure  spacer rock psychedelia now
> >> > and
> >> > Cds are cheap to produce.
> >> >
> >> > Capt Lockheed was unique-- a huge cast of characters and famous
> people.
> >> Bob
> >> > Calvert didn't manage to tour with it, for whatever reasons. Bob
> >> > Calvert
> >> is
> >> > impossible to really imitate (although Ron Tree did his vocals pretty
> >> > well), but all  comedy  sketches.... Nobody can even remotely sound
> >> > like
> >> > Viv Stanshall, and I doubt Arthur Brown will turn up. Do we need more
> >> > covers of the The Right Stuff with the inevitable sample of Viv
> >> Stanshall?
> >> > It might be OK live, however.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On 26 August 2013 22:04, Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at carlaz.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> On 26 Aug 2013, at 08:09 , Jonathan Smith <smithjm77x7 at GMAIL.COM>
> >> wrote:
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I tend to agree. Most of his projects tend to have a couple of
> >> >> > really
> >> >> good
> >> >> > tracks, but admittedly no real classic album. I would go and see
> him
> >> >> > play
> >> >> > covers if he played near where i live but that will never happen
> >> >> obviously.
> >> >>
> >> >> +1, here!
> >> >>
> >> >> > I remember seeing Bob Calvert with Krankschaft. The audience was
> >> >> > small
> >> >> even
> >> >> > in London yet Alan seems to be confident that he can tour with Capt
> >> >> > Lockheed. Space is slightly more popular than those days...
> >> >>
> >> >> That may be -- I think the ongoing growth of the Internet and social
> >> >> media
> >> >> have helped re-kindle interest in fans that might otherwise have lost
> >> it,
> >> >> as well as helped the genre reach new fans. I don't think we're
> >> >> looking
> >> >> at
> >> >> space-rock bands about to produce Top 10 singles ;) but ....
> >> >>
> >> >> Still, touring the Captain Lockheed album ... I think it would be
> cool
> >> if
> >> >> they reproduced on the theatrical bits on stage :) but basically this
> >> >> is
> >> >> going to revolve around playing "The Right Stuff", "Aerospaceage
> >> >> Inferno",
> >> >> and "Ejection", no?  Not that there's anything at all, wrong with
> >> >> that,
> >> >> but
> >> >> ....
> >> >>
> >> >> Cheers,
> >> >> Carl
> >> >>
> >> >> --
> >> >> Carl Edlund Anderson
> >> >> http://www.carlaz.com/
> >> >>
> >> >
> >>
> >
>