HW: OFF: What Mark said about Dave Brock applies to Edgar Froese, too!

[Craig Shipley]

Damn, Mark, this could almost be the same complaint that I have with current
Tangerine Dream!! Substitute "Edgar Froese" for "Dave Brock", "Underwater
Sunlight" for "Electric Teepee" and Bob's your uncle!!

Eddie-baby could also boost the coffers by releasing some live '70's and
'80's concerts...

(BTW, for any of you TD fans out there, it is you solemn duty to seek out a
copy of the 4 CD r.o.i.o. ELECTRONIC ORGY. This has just about every rare
track that TD has ever done, from the rare "Ultima Thule" right up to rare
CD tracks from the '90's. May be out of print by now, but what a collection!
Sweet!!)
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Edmonds <mmje at MMJE.DEMON.CO.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list BOC-L <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Date: Thursday, January 29, 1998 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: Distand Horizons/Dave Brock etc


>In article <199801291500.KAA24487 at wcic.org>, John Majka
><flossbac at WCIC.ORG> writes
>
><had to be snipped for space>
>
>I think the decline in creative ability with age is a truism in the rock
>world. It is also made worse by the fact that the older you get, so your
>musical tastes diversify and the paths split more quickly.  There was a
>time when I was absolutely dependent on Hawkwind and lived in fear of
>them splitting. That time has passed but I still respect Dave for his
>longevity and understand that the number of times he will "hit the spot"
>is going to diminish. This doesn't stop me enjoying older Hawkwind or
>getting that special Hawkwind buzz when they do come along with
>something really good. Problem is that it has been a while since
>Electric Teepee!
>
>However, the thing that they have often done which does piss me off is
>to rename old songs. When I bought the digipak Strange Trips and Pipe
>Dreams, it had a sticker on the front saying "Contains the classic track
>Bosnia" and I thought "great! sounds hopeful!" only to find they had
>already released it as Death of War. OK, so Bosnia might have been the
>original incarnation but the differences don't justify hyping it as a
>classic and duping the naive ones like myself.
>
>I do agree with John though in that quality rather than quantity should
>be the name of the game and if John's money argument is true then all
>Dave need do is to release a string of live albums from the late 70s!
>
>Mark
>