OFF: Comebacks

[brian halligan]

Laj said:
>[...]due to my current age of 23 years I have
>unfortunately never seen BOC with Albert or Joe, the five guitars, the
huge
>Godzilla during the ETL tour, the awesome laser show, Eric riding a
Harley on
>stage, Albert singing Cities from behind his kit, and the list goes on
and on.

I'm 23 also, but I have seen Albert singing Cities from behind the kit.
And Dominance & Submission, and Vera Gemini, and Death Valley Nights
(behind a Rik).  And even 5 Guitars.  I don't know if you live around
the east coast of the US, but if you do, make sure you get out and see
The Brain Surgeons!

>But then again the current line-up is awesome, it's cool the way you
can, when
>they play a bar, get right up front within 10 feet of the band!!! Ive
seen allot
>of large stadium bands live but the BOC musically blows most of these
groups
>away. As far as these bands being long dead rock bands, I prefer to
look at it in
>the way of time weeding out the crap, most people I talk to that say
there BOC
>fans, or Hawkwind fans, or Grateful Dead fans are usually people that
own every
>album and are thoroughly into said bands, there the fans that count.
>
>Later dude. . .

Like Keith Richards always says when he's asked when he'll retire, "You
wouldn't ask me that if I were Ray Charles, or Howlin' Wolf..."  The
best bands can take their fleeting pop success and turn it into
long-lasting, cross-generational fan support for as long as they want to
continue to entertain.  BOC, HW, the Dead, the Stones, and Alice Cooper
among others have all managed to make the transition.  Their music's
definately not "long dead".  And if their "pop death" means we can stand
close enough to Buck that we could tune his guitar if we wanted, well
then all the better! :-)

Later,
Brian

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Brian Halligan
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"We are drawing a moustache on the wanted poster of the face of music."
-Fierce Wicker
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