HW: Silver Machine video revisited/Legendary Pink Dots

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Pam/Christian write:
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>> Am I the only one who finds A4/LiS albums to be
>> extremely _sucky_?? *flat out* sucky?? ;)
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>> Christian
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>I *really* like Alien 4-in fact, I'm still looking for this on CD!! My
>new player wants it:), and I've about worn out my tape copy. I guess I'm
>weird, tho-at least my friends say so:) I picked up Legendary Pink Dots
>latest-"Hallway of the Gods" yesterday-Interesting and VERY spacey. It
>starts out as spacy psychedelia and then towards the end gets downright
>trippy! Good stuff! I'm glad I picked it up! Highly reccommended:)Rock
>on!
>Pam

Sorry pam, I agree with Christian about the Area S4/Lis stuff.  The couple of
gigs I saw on the '95 tour, I was with a chap called Richard Allen of Delerium
Records. (He is manager to Porcupine Tree - SUPERB band!). Anyhow, we both
agreed that it was like Spinal Tap's worst nightmare!(Australian Hairdressers!)

At the time, I couldn't help thinking, why the hell didn't Ron quit doing the
high-pitched stuff, and get on with the job of being Bob Calvert. (No
disrespect to Bob's memory.)

That said, there were some great moments from the show, Assassins was
particularly powerful, as was Lord of Light.

Also, there's a huge coincidence here too! A Dutch mate was doing the sound on
the Alien tour, (Raymond Steeg), and he also does the sound for the Legendary
Pink Dots, as well as Porcupine Tree on a regular basis. He also engineered Ron
and Gerry's tracks on Distant Horizons.  He was also on the sound desk for the
Isle of Man shows, the Derby Bike fest., the Blackheath gig etc.

Enough waffling for now,

Guy T.

PS:  I know I'm a bit biased here, 'cos I filmed half of the Brixton '92 video,
but I rather like it! Does anybody else?