BOC-L Digest - 26 Jan 2015 to 27 Jan 2015 (#2015-24)

[CRosenberg]

Hey, Keith - That was Edgar Froese, not Klaus, that expired. :)
Chuck

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> Topics of the day:
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>   1. OFF: Timewind: WTFF?
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> Date:    Mon, 26 Jan 2015 13:06:38 -0800
> From:    Keith Henderson <
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> Subject: Re: OFF: Timewind: WTFF?
>
>  > I did find it amusing that people who bought it also bought Led
>  > Zeppelin.  Random play mode should prove interesting.
>
> Hey, I have the Timewind CD (original version I'm sure, without
> extended/bonus tracks), also Irrlicht and one or two others (?), and
> essentially the entire Led Zeppelin discography (not the newest reissues,
> with fake? bonus tracks), including solo works.  What's so weird about
> that?  Presumably, a lot of people on lists such as ours would have similar
> variety in taste, considering that all these artists are from exactly the
> same era.
>
> FoFP then offered...
>
> > Heh. I seem to be plagued by this lately. Another one I can't find at a
> sane price:
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> > http://www.musicstack.com/album/ego+on+the+rocks/acid+in+wonderland
>
> Hey, I have this too!
>
> You can listen to it here...
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wjEMe8TLzw
>
> I was about to say that this album is absolutely not worth *any* sort of
> premium price IMHO, but then I was thinking of a different album, that
> being Klaus-Peter Matziol's solo album, Run For Cover, which I also have on
> CD.  That one has maybe two really nice tracks in the style of Eloy, and
> the rest of the album is pretty forgettable.  Ego on the Rocks is, now that
> I have my mind straightened out, also not up to the level of the parent
> band IMHO.  Sounds kinda dated in that hokey late 70s/early 80s way,
> although I still have a weird love affair with certain selected
> albums/tunes from this era*, even though much of the music of that era has
> aged really poorly.  (At least gated drums hadn't taken over completely
> just yet...that happened a few years later.)  I was a teenager during this
> time, and was just starting to discover my *own* music, as opposed to just
> listening to whatever albums my older brothers brought home from college.
> They all stopped with
>  Tull, Rush, Zeppelin, BOC, and in one case, Hawkwind.  Within months, in
> 1980, HW was my favorite band (listened to Levitation every day for about
> an entire year), but then I immediately "discovered" Amon Duul II, Nektar,
> Can, Gong, etc. via the cross-referencing feature of the dead-tree Rock
> Record discography encyclopedia and Pete Frame's family tree foldout
> "atlas."  Eloy
>
> *Late 70s Mythos (Moo-tose) is completely awful and still quite compelling
> for some inexplicable reason.  Something about that crystal-clear,
> uplifting/triumphant synth sound that lasted only a few years**, presumably
> spurred on by the likes of Gary Wright and the fame of Dream Weaver some
> years before (?).  FM's Black Noise might be spoken of the same way.  (Note
> that all these bands, including Grobschnitt most notably, recorded some of
> the most pathetic music in rock history starting about 1982, the beginning
> of the GREAT BLACK HOLE OF (PROGRESSIVE) ROCK HISTORY, Marillion/iQ
> notwithstanding.)  Also, Stefan Zauner's Prism & Views is an album I will
> always love, even though his main contribution to Amon Duul II was to make
> the band completely uncool and (with a few exceptions) uniformly terrible.
>
> **I remember listening (in "real" time) to Chance, the 1980 (?) Manfred
> Mann album, full of the cheesiest of cheesy synthesizers, and thinking it
> was the greatest "new" sound in history.  Same with Aldo Nova's big hit,
> what was it, "Fantasy"?  "Cars" (Numan) too.  I thought the future had
> arrived, and the "old" music wouldn't have a chance against this stuff
> coming out.  How naive I was!  Two years later, I was over all that and
> said, What the hell happened to guitars?!?!  Human League, Thompson Twins,
> you gotta be kidding me with this horrific trash!!!  (and Joy Division,
> perhaps the WORST band that somehow still gets some respect...I cannot
> tolerate two seconds of them.)  Suddenly, this live album from Hammersmith
> (Stay Clean! No Class!) was annoying the hell out of my neighbors in my
> college dorm here at Penn State, trying to drown out "Should I Stay Or
> Should I Go Now" or whatever the flavor of the day was, none of them any
> good.  Ugh, what a
>  terrible era to go to college, not to mention Saint Ronnie in charge.
>
> But I digress...
>
> Listen to the Eloy live album from last year, recorded 2013.  It's a nice
> "career retrospective" collection of great tunes, without sounding as dated
> as some of those post-1980 Eloy albums with the terrible production and
> all...
>
> Keith
>
> P.S. Didn't know that Klaus Schulze had died...thanks CR for passing that
> news along.  Better news is that Daevid Allen is getting better...Gong's
> newest (essentially Allen solo with Aussie friends) is really solid and
> worthy of being sold under the Gong name...some bits are even a little
> plagiaristic of old Gong numbers, John Fogerty-style, not that that's a bad
> thing....
>
> P.P.S.  In 10 years, there will be few classic bands that have enough
> members to continue in any valid sense, not that that stops them from
> touring (*cough* Skynyrd/Lizzy/Man *cough*)
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