HW: cover songs

[Craig A. Shipley]

The Iron Dream took its name from a piece of sci-fi written by Norman Spinrad. The book was a bit of "alternative-reality" where Adolf Hitler was a sci-fi writer and expressed his views thru the pen and not with the Panzer. (Another "famous" author who appears on rock recordings, Spinrad "sang" the lyrics to "Houston 69" on Richard Pinhas' "EAST-WEST" release, and a number of titles of various Heldon/Pinhas tunes reflect Spinrads' writing). The prime vehicle of choice in TID was the motorcycle (kinda ties into BOC, well, sorta...kinda reminds me of "The Golden Age Of Leather" with more Nordic/mystical/Nazi overtones...) and the baddies were these mutants of Zind (the racial purity thing...) which were attacking the fatherland of Heldon (gee, maybe this belongs more on the Pinhas/Heldon mailing list, if there was such a thing...). An even more tenuous HW link; on the cover of my copy of TID, there is a quote from Michael Moorcock!

The book was published in 1972, FWIW...

objCDPlayer: Mastermind IV / Until Eternity. This CD is a blast of powerful guitar and synths. Some definite BOC-ish licks on this one. I think that this CD is going to be my "best prog-rock of 1996" choice. Don't miss out on these guys...

Craig Shipley
craigs at pyramid.com

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From:   Karl Hiller[SMTP:khiller at NICKEL.UCS.INDIANA.EDU]
Sent:   Monday, October 28, 1996 4:37 PM
To:     Multiple recipients of list BOC-L
Subject:        Re: HW: cover songs

On Fri, 18 Oct 1996, William Duffy wrote:

> I was just wondering whether "The Iron Dream" may be a cover?
> I remember watching A children's puppet show from Japan called "Star
> Fleet." There was a scene in one episode featuring a battle with "The
> Iron Dream" being performed by someone else in the background.
>
> The series was made after "Quark..." came out, however, I was thinking
> that it could be a reworking of an old classical piece (ala ELP,
> Rainbow, etc..)

>>From my admittedly limited experience watching Japanese animation (I had
a friend years ago who was really into it), Japanese producers are not at
all shy about "lifting" music from American/European sources, with or
without permission.  Maybe the puppet show just borrowed the tune.

Karl


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