HW: Brock Interview - Star One

[Andrew Garibaldi]

Hellfire Jon - nice appraisal - couldn't have put it better myself - in
fact, I haven't yet.Oh well, if we ever need to write it up, I'll have to
ask ya for permission to use that for a guest reviewer slot - good one!!!!!!
Andy G.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Jarrett" <jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 4:36 PM
Subject: Re: HW: Brock Interview - Star One


> > > They played the Hawkwind medley that Dave sang on for that Star One
cd. It
> > sounded really good. I would like to hear the rest of the disc. If the
rest
> > of the cd is anywhere as good as the medley, then it is probably
fantastic.
> > Has anyone heard the whole disc?
>
>         Yes. The medley's different to the rest in terms of, I don't know,
> it has more grit and less pretention, though not much less. There's a
> forgettable version of `Space Oddity' on the bonus disc too but otherwise
> it's pretty consistent, overblown power metal with masses of synth
> content. Most of the instruments are by the boy Arjen, who can't play as
> well as he thinks he can, I think, but there are some guest soloists who
> turn out plenty of yer power-metal widdling, including synth-guitar duels
> and stuff like that. Terribly terribly I-would-love-to-think-it's-tongue-
> in-cheek-but-I-don't-think-it-is. Like Rainbow with the teeth removed and
> extra hair. But no, hang on, I'm not being quite fair. Once you allow for
> the fact that it's decidedly operatic in aspiration and that though Arjen
> may think it's heavy I own some Electric Wizard albums that cause me to
> differ from him on this, it's (hush, look the other way) actually quite
> *good* in places. Some effective use of harmonies, some quite good pieces
> of music, lyrics not always terrible (I mean, they beat John Shirley's but
> you can tell Arjen doesn't have a very good grasp of what's a hideous
> cliche or skull-numbingly naif), and of course there's the fun of working
> out what films he's using. It's by and large obvious if you've seen them
> and in some cases even if you haven't, which means that if like me you
> hadn't seen any Blake's Seven you must avoid hearing the lyrics so as not
> to have the plot entirely exposed to you.
>