BOC: Creativity and production

[Steven Tice]

In a message dated 98-07-07 11:54:07 EDT, you write:

<< Even in their prime, it was pulling
 teeth to get them to record.  Creativity comes slowly to this group,.
 but when it does... >>

Well, actually, they were pretty prolific during their prime, if you define
their prime as their early to middle days (and, considering the quality of the
first three albums, that seems reasonable).  They released an album a year
from their inception in 1972 through RBN in 1983...that's a pretty good run!
Plus, there's TONS of unreleased recordings from all of the band members
during that period...they could fill a bunch of anniversary collections with
rare tracks if a record company would actually DO such a collection.  By the
middle years (AOF through Fire) virtually every member was bringing a bunch of
songs to each album, only a handful of which were actually selected.  It's
only after RBN that it all dries up rather suddenly...

SET