BOC: So long and thanks for the fish

[Abra Cadabra]

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2015-04-02 20:34 GMT+02:00 Abra Cadabra <anacondaconan at gmail.com>:
> Club Ninja is terrible... Imaginos has some great moments... HF has
> lots of heavy hard core style modern rockers (the one about the dude
> with the Snake Tattoo! Power Underneath Despair etc) i like that are
> "not" BOC ish, and melodic Shirley lyric stuff (Man With The X Ray
> Eyes) too. Curse has its great moments too... "Pocket"... not having
> listened much to Curse for a number of years to recall it much...
>
> 2015-04-02 20:01 GMT+02:00  <j.hillenburg at comcast.net>:
>> Heaven Forbid is very patchy for me. John Shirley wasn't a great choice for lyrics and some of the tunes sounded dated on release. Curse is a little better, a little closer in spirit to the original band. If it must be, better that stand as BOC's final album than the likes of Club Ninja. Yikes!
>>
>> Buck is writing again and well, so perhaps we'll hear more from him. I doubt if any incarnation of BOC records again.
>>
>>
>>
>> Original Message===================
>>
>> both Heaven Forbid and Curse Of The Hidden Mirrors are nice albums
>> from the latter day BOC. I guess unlike the continuing ship sailing of
>> Hawkwind, BOC is pretty much "all is said and done and discussed" and
>> less BOC fans in that sense...
>>
>> I was a HW fan and got into BOC after this list in the mid 90s...
>> picked up Workshop Of The Telescopes and did some BOC trades i used to
>> find CD copies of Imaginos used in Oslo and traded them rarities here
>> for HW or other stuff...
>>
>> Christian
>>
>> 2015-04-02 12:39 GMT+02:00 Jonathan Jarrett <jjarrett at coriolis.greenend.org.uk>:
>>> On Wed, 1 Apr 2015, Jeff Thompson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Yeah.  Where HAVE the BOC discussions on the net migrated  Do people just
>>>> hang out on Eric and Donald's FB pages or something?  I really like the
>>>> listserv format.  Maybe lists, like usenet, are a dying thing.
>>>
>>>
>>>         This does, alas, seem to be the state of things. PhD Comics, as so
>>> often, has it about right:
>>> http://phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1790
>>>
>>>> Haven't seen Al in a while.  How many of us BOC fans are left?
>>>
>>>
>>>         Well, I came here as a BÖC fan, met Hawkwind and got sucked in... I
>>> would probably go and see BÖC one more time, but they've been less exciting
>>> each time I have, and I'm afraid to utterly spoil my memory of them. First
>>> saw them in 1998, on the Heaven Forbid tour, with Eric still in full voice,
>>> Danny Maranda on bass and Bobby Rondinelli on drums and that was great,
>>> tight, fierce and funny when there was a chance to be, Allen coming to the
>>> front for 'In Thee' and 'Last Days of May'. I still think there's some good
>>> stuff on that album that is unjustly forgotten. But each time they make it
>>> here it's with a different rhythm section, fewer original members and less
>>> energy... Al, however, I will go see in any band he can get over here if I
>>> only find out about it, and therein lies the problem, because I used to get
>>> most of my gig notices through this here list! Yours,
>>>                         Jon
>>>
>>> --
>>>   Jonathan Jarrett       "There is scarce any tradition or popular error
>>> Medievalist historian    but stands also delivered by some good author."
>>>      Birmingham         (Sir Thomas Browne, "Pseudodoxia Epidemica", 1646)