BOC: Re: Various thoughts of the day

[John A Swartz]

>Actually John, they've been playing the new songs and promising a new album
since I saw them in December of '91--FIVE YEARS AGO now.

Probably true enough (I lost track of BOC between '89 and '93, until
re-discovering BOC-L).  I guess I sort of count *Bad Channels* as a
new album in a way -- that is, if BOC played "Demon's Kiss" or "Horsemen
Arrive" and said that they were going to be on their "new album" back
in the '91/'92 timeframe, well, I guess they delivered as far as those
2 tunes go.  If they were playing "Harvest Moon" and "Still Burnin'"
around those times and making the same claims (and they may very well
have - I'd have to go back and check some setlists and tapes), then they
certainly failed there (I don't know when all the "new" songs were
written, but I know "Harvest Moon" was written way back around 1986).

>I guess part of the negative attitude (for me) comes from the fact that
I've been handed the "New Album Coming Soon" line for five years now.

Absolutely.  My point (and I think others) as far as saying "give 'em a
break" is that while we will all believe the new album when we hold it
in our hands, from all visible signs, BOC is making progress towards
that new release.  While before all we heard (at least all I heard) was
"we've got a new album coming out soon", at least this time I've heard
that they've got the recording finished, got a working title, presumably
got someone planned to do the album artwork, and are supposedly working
on distribution deals.  Oh, and I know (most of) the album titles.  So,
I have reason to be optimistic.  Now, March 1st was the originally
announced release date - it's not yet March 1st, so I shouldn't expect
a new album *before* that.  True, Buck hinted that since they won't
start mixing for another month, that date will probably be pushed out.
Well, alot of albums get their release dates pushed out beyond the originally
expected date.  Now, I will start to get more cynical the further out
that date gets pushed, but it is too early for that - I can wait until
March or April and see if there is more signs of progress or just
seemingly empty promises.  And still, as I said, even if the current
deal has or does fall through, if they really do have the album recorded
then I think it is going to get released this year in some fashion.

So, IMHO, we should all sit tight and at least save our cynicism for
a few months down the road...

John