BOC-L Digest - 1 Apr 2015 to 3 Apr 2015 (#2015-84)

CRosenberg chuckrecs at GMAIL.COM
Fri Apr 3 22:16:27 EDT 2015


didn't even realize the Magic Shroom comp was on the list. Was it that one
released by Cleo in the '90s? Why the fuck didn't I hang on to that one??
BTW - the MMB kinda morphed into Astralasia...not everyone's cuppa, but if
I have an itchin' for some Space-Techno...and of course they remixed
Hawkwind.

On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 2:00 AM, BOC-L automatic digest system <
LISTSERV at listserv.ispnetinc.net> wrote:

> There are 10 messages totaling 314 lines in this issue.
>
> Topics of the day:
>
>   1. BOC: So long and thanks for the fish (3)
>   2. BOC - Bad Channels Record Store Day Release
>   3. Crack In The Cosmic Egg
>   4. faking doom, posing punk, fake wannabees
>   5. SUN DIAL/MONSTER MAGNET/EDWARD KA-SPEL Trade or Sell.. (2)
>   6. Carl's Espada Negra
>   7. Bandcamp (more OFF related music)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Date:    Thu, 2 Apr 2015 11:39:25 +0100
> From:    Jonathan Jarrett <jjarrett at CORIOLIS.GREENEND.ORG.UK>
> Subject: Re: BOC: So long and thanks for the fish
>
> 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."
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Thu, 2 Apr 2015 11:48:09 +0100
> From:    Jonathan Jarrett <jjarrett at CORIOLIS.GREENEND.ORG.UK>
> Subject: Re: BOC - Bad Channels Record Store Day Release
>
> On Wed, 1 Apr 2015, Nathan Gilbert wrote:
> > http://recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/7838
> >
> > This album any good?
>
>          It's what you might call a mixed bag, in fact it'd be hard for it
> to be more mixed. There's two quite good real B#C songs, albeit the lyrics
> are by John Shirley so immensely repetitive, then some ten other songs by
> mostly-deservedly unknown bands who could have been played on the
> fictional local radio station at which the film to which this album is the
> soundtrack is set (phew, grammar, sorry). A couple of these are fun, none
> are what I'd call good. Then the last twenty minutes or so is Tangerine
> Dream-style incidental electronica, which is by Buck but you'd never know
> that to hear it. So, buyer beware, I'd say. 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)
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Thu, 2 Apr 2015 19:24:24 +0200
> From:    Abra Cadabra <anacondaconan at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: BOC: So long and thanks for the fish
>
> 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)
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Thu, 2 Apr 2015 19:55:01 +0200
> From:    Abra Cadabra <anacondaconan at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Crack In The Cosmic Egg
>
> Just smoke it.
>
> Its dirtier, and whiter, than grass,
>
> Co Caine...
>
> Sugar in the morning. 1995 last time i based the coca leaf.
>
> Then the mirror cracks Troll centric in a cascade of Escher-esque
> shards of Satan.
>
> The latest Ozrics effort on mail order.
>
> Christ Ian
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Thu, 2 Apr 2015 20:35:22 +0200
> From:    Abra Cadabra <anacondaconan at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: BOC: So long and thanks for the fish
>
> This did not go to the list...
>
> 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)
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Thu, 2 Apr 2015 20:49:11 +0200
> From:    Abra Cadabra <anacondaconan at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: faking doom, posing punk, fake wannabees
>
> LOL.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Thu, 2 Apr 2015 23:47:25 +0200
> From:    Abra Cadabra <anacondaconan at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: SUN DIAL/MONSTER MAGNET/EDWARD KA-SPEL Trade or Sell..
>
> SUN DIAL "Return Journey" (lost 1st LP) CD (Relapse remaster 2005) £. 5,-
> MONSTER MAGNET "Monolithic Baby" ok some scuffs £ 3,5
> NAPALM DEATH "From Enslavement To Obliteration" with Cathedral
> vocalist Lee Dorrian NEW CD £5,-
> EDWARD KA-SPEL "Burning Church EP" CD cardsleeve ltd. ed. £3
> IGGY POP "Lust For Life" as new CD kr. £3
> CHRISTIAN DEATH "Love & Hate" as new CD  £5
> THE CHILLS (USA) "Something To Die For" new £5,-
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Fri, 3 Apr 2015 07:00:52 +0200
> From:    Abra Cadabra <anacondaconan at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Carl's Espada Negra
>
> check out collaborations with Mournblade's Duncan Mullet on Carl
> Edlund Anderson's Espada Negra the band, also covering stuff by Mick
> Farren & The Deviants, and Mournblade... also my pal Scott Heller
> "Øresund Space Collective" band, if ya got a Bandcamp fan site hook
> up! I network and see tons of people getting mostly obscure dark
> stoner and doom Metal while i surf the post psychedelic Tidal Forces
> (no Humans Allowed pt. II)...https://bandcamp.com/christianmumford
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Fri, 3 Apr 2015 07:04:29 +0200
> From:    Abra Cadabra <anacondaconan at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Bandcamp (more OFF related music)
>
> I have grown to like KingBathmat and side project Arcade Messiah quite
> abit... but i am grabbing them for free - i will have to purchase the
> Arcade Messiah CD as its killer cross between metal Porcupine Tree and
> post math metal stuff. Love it... KingBathmat is more progressive
> vein. All the KingBathmat and Arcade Messiah stuff is free download so
> check it out.
> KINGBATHMAT.BANDCAMP.COM
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Fri, 3 Apr 2015 10:27:50 +0200
> From:    Abra Cadabra <anacondaconan at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: SUN DIAL/MONSTER MAGNET/EDWARD KA-SPEL Trade or Sell..
>
> Sun Dial, Edward Ka-Spel EP, and a Magic Mushroom Band comp were
> traded off to a trader on Greece via FB. Sorry Charliechuckcharles
> Rosenberg! I got a double No Man remaster and a Wolfsbane Kathy
> Wilson, the one i coveted with a fistful of Cimmerian lust, CD for
> them... it was now or never maaaan!
>
> 2015-04-02 23:47 GMT+02:00 Abra Cadabra <anacondaconan at gmail.com>:
> > SUN DIAL "Return Journey" (lost 1st LP) CD (Relapse remaster 2005) £. 5,-
> > MONSTER MAGNET "Monolithic Baby" ok some scuffs £ 3,5
> > NAPALM DEATH "From Enslavement To Obliteration" with Cathedral
> > vocalist Lee Dorrian NEW CD £5,-
> > EDWARD KA-SPEL "Burning Church EP" CD cardsleeve ltd. ed. £3
> > IGGY POP "Lust For Life" as new CD kr. £3
> > CHRISTIAN DEATH "Love & Hate" as new CD  £5
> > THE CHILLS (USA) "Something To Die For" new £5,-
>
> ------------------------------
>
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