HW: Cassettes!

[K Henderson]

Chuck wondered...

>Also picked up Flicknife cassette of Friends/Relations 2 and 3 on a single
>cassette. This is neat, I'm hearing some stuff for the first time.
>"Psychedelia Lives" seems longer here than the one on the Best of F/R, though
>I could be wrong... "Drug Cabinet Key" of course is just Hawklord's "Flying
>Dr.", minus the didj, but a good version. "Wired Up for Sound" I'm assuming
>is from Brock's Earthed to the Ground album? Very nice. Who does "Work", is
>this ICU?

Nope, as was already mentioned, this is Martin Griffin's contribution.  The
music to this song is exactly the same as a Richard Strange (ex-Doctors of
Madness) solo track, from either/both of his albums from that time (c.
1980-1), entitled 'The Phenomenal Rise of...' and 'The Live Rise of...' (the
latter of which is only partly live (from New York) and largely overdubbed
thereafter I believe, esp. given that three bassists are credited and hard
to imagine that sort of thing on stage outside of Spinal Tap).  However, the
"Strange" version (of "Work") had completely different lyrics and indeed a
completely different title (my brain is telling me it was 'Gutter Press'
which I know is one of his songs, but I can't be sure if it is the correct
one).  Although I do believe (from memory) it is Strange also on
Guitar/Vocals of (ostensibly) Griffin's "Work," which means that it's not
really obvious who actually wrote those alternate lyrics.  The only thing
I'm pretty sure of is that Dave Winthrop plays a sax solo on both versions.
And for those '6 degrees of separation' fans who like to connect various
musicians to others (often via Bill Bruford), this link is invaluable given
that Paul Martinez was in the Strange/Griffin lineup, and he also played
bass with Robert Plant's band, also with Phil Collins (for Plant's Pictures
at Eleven), as well as Paice, Ashton (RIP), and Lord, which of course links
to the entire Deep Purple family (Bernie Marsden was in PAL too, so that is
even more direct to bands like Whitesnake and Babe Ruth).

Grakkl (FAA)

P.S.  "The Man with the Golden Arm" is more of that awful Nik-squawking of
the period, innit?