Random stuff

[Joseph Brooks]

I saw BOC plenty in the AoF era but damn if I can remember hearing "True
Confessions". I do remember hearing "Going thru the Motions" which at the
time, we all could've done without.

                >KBFH only has the shows that BOC did for them to work with,
so of course
                >there won't be any HF tunes.  Bolle hinted that this MIGHT
be a 2-CD
                >set, and that there is little or no motiviation to include
BOC's "hits"
                >on it, so he believes that we'll get lots of the more
obscure stuff.

Whoo hoo! If they left off Godzilla, I'd buy it for that reason alone,
nevermind what else was on there. I'm of the belief that that song hurt the
band more than anything, big hit and money maker, yes but it also caused
many people to write them off as a joke or novelty band.

I suppose I could live with "Reaper".. great song but over exposed and over
played. And as far as "Burnin' for You" is concerned, didn't the KBFH shows
predate that album?

Here's a question for you guys.. Did they EVER play "Mistress of the Salmon
Salt" live? I just love that tune but, as many times as I've seen BOC, I
can't recall ever having heard that one live, even in the old days.

JB


                -----Original Message-----
                From:   John A. Swartz [mailto:jswartz at MITRE.ORG]
                Sent:   Tuesday, March 09, 1999 5:34 AM
                To:     Multiple recipients of list BOC-L
                Subject:        BOC: Random stuff

                > Am I the only person on the list who heard BOC do True
Confessions
                > live?  I even have a photo of Allen singing!  That's gotta
be some
                > kind of collector's item, eh?  On tour supporting AoF,
they did a lot
                > of songs from that album.  Great tour...

                Wow - that must be pretty rare.  If Al Bouchard is
listening, maybe he
                could tell us how many times (roughly) it was done live.  I
didn't think
                it was ever done live.

                >
                > > 3. New BOC CD on CMC International -- will most likely
NOT be a live
                > > album.

                > This is really better news than a live album from the
current lineup,
                > at least for now.  I say this because it shows that CMC
has
                > confidence in the band, and suggests that HF probably sold
pretty
                > well.  Anyone have any sales figures?

                Nope - I don't believe it's gone gold (at least not yet) - I
would've
                think that this would have been major news if it had.  My
wild-assed
                guess is that HF has probably sold in the 50,000 - 100,000
copy range --
                but that's total speculation.

                > Anyone else wonder if
                > this news coincides with Al P's presence in the band?  He
might be a
                > more fertile songwriter/contributor than AL at this point
in time.

                I doubt that this is the case.  Al Pitrelli is a great
musician, but
                from all reports, he's merely filling in so that Allen can
get a break
                from touring.  I suspect that Al P. is going back to his
"regular job"
                of playing guitar in Savatage and the Tran-Siberian
Orchestra.  On the
                other hand, I understand that he and Danny Miranda have
worked together
                in the past, so maybe the two of them will do some
collaboration for the
                next BOC album...


                > 2) Imaginos
                > I seem to recall that there is a "correct" order for this
album, and
                > that it is not the same as the track list.  (I know this
was talk about
                > a lot on the list.)  I play my CD on my lap top, and the
program I use
                > (DiscPlay 3.4, best CD player for WinTel boxes in the
world, BTW)  has
                > an option to always play in a given order, and I would
like to have it
                > do so (actually, I had the list, but doing a low level
format of your
                > hard drive tends to lose things like that.

                Check the BOC FAQ - it's in there.


                > >
                > > 5 guitars (mark II and III versions).
                > >>
                > >What are the mk ii and iii versions?

                This is in the FAQ too, but I can do this one from memory...

                Mark I was the 5 guitar jam at the end of ME-262
                Mark II was the "independent" jam they used to do after
Joe's bass solo
                -- as heard on "Live 1976"
                Mark III was the instrumental version of "Golden Age of
Leather"


                >
                > Call me zany, but if they ever decide to expand the
"acoutsic set" beyond
                > one song (In Thee), Redeemed would be a cool number to
hear again... as
                > would I'm On the Lamb.  The latter's my fave version of
the Red and the
                > black, actually.

                Back in '95, they briefly (1 or 2 shows) did The Great
Sun-Jester
                acoustically.  Rumor had it that they were going to also do
She's as
                Beautiful as a Foot, but that never happened.


                > Bolle should convince KBFH to set up a fan poll on
bocfanclub.com in order
                > to select tracks for the live 'un. Number of hits to the
siteand things
                > like that should give KBFH a god index of how many copies
to run off
                > initially.

                KBFH only has the shows that BOC did for them to work with,
so of course
                there won't be any HF tunes.  Bolle hinted that this MIGHT
be a 2-CD
                set, and that there is little or no motiviation to include
BOC's "hits"
                on it, so he believes that we'll get lots of the more
obscure stuff.


                John


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                John A. Swartz - The MITRE Corporation, Bedford MA -
jswartz at mitre.org

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