Review: Bedouin in Cambridge

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

On tor 22 apr 1999 10.25 +0100 "Jonathan Jarrett" wrote:
>         Sputnik Stan (this was insane - Alan's bass solo actually rather
> outdid Lemmy in 'Time We Left' - I know it's sacrilege but it seemed that
> way to me, what can I say... )

     Ooooh, treading dangerous ground :)  Alan was essentially on
his own here, and I think Lemmy benefited from having the rest
of the band crunching along underneath him.  So for overall
effect, it's difficult to say.  It was definitely cruising at a
similar altitude, though ..... :)

>         "Sean's Trouser Beast, I mean, Sword of the East"

     Ah, yes.  I got the dodgy joke, and misquoted the pun!
Must have more coffee ....

> Sean's guitar work is
> individual and takes leaves out of Mr. Brock's and Mr. Rudolph's books, as
> well as others; he just needs to be louder.

     ?  But:

> And of course, Alan, well.

     Ah, well, that will be OK then!

> One
> of my friends who'd not seen them before said he spent some time during
> the solo in 'Sputnik Stan' (during which Sean put down his guitar and went
> and sat behind the stack to have a fag) looking for the second
> guitarist... His complaint was that Alan was so much doing solo stuff that
> he felt they lost a bit of rhythm, and a couple of the fast ones did
> suffer that way a bit perhaps, but when the high points were as high as
> they were, you don't quarrel! See them quickly while it's still cheap!

     Yeah, a second guitarist would be completely superfluous.  I
mean, Sean is there to add colour and variety to a very long bass
solo, in effect ;)  I think they'll be hammered into tighter shape
on the anvil of touring before long.  It worked for Motorhead, in
whose path Bedouin are very much tripping along.

     I am pleased to find that the 5 minute "Bass Junk" track at
the end of their little CD-R live album is no more and no less than
a "Sputnik Stan" bass solo.  Ah, another pun, I see ... :)

Cheers,
Carl

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Carl Edlund Anderson
Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, & Celtic
St. John's College, University of Cambridge
mailto:cea20 at cus.cam.ac.uk
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~carl/