OFF: Simple Minds/Legendary Pink Dots

[dave hall]

That SM track was "Don't you forget about me". Simple Minds - a Scottish
band, started well okay in mid eighties, lost it big time in 90's. Superb
live act, saw them a number of times. I used to be in a band with one of
their former drummers and their keyboard player's brother works with me.
Two tenuous Hawkwind/Simple Minds links for you:
Simple Minds had a couple of their early LPs produced by Steve Hillage who
as you all know played with Gong. Mr Hillage produced Nik Turners's
Xitintoday....as you know,  Nik former Hawkwind member.
Glissando guitar: yep, the old gliss guitar connection. Guitar technique
picked up by Daevid Allen (of Gong) from, I think - Syd Barratt, said
technique passed to Steve Hillage in the early 70's, who passed it to
Charlie Burchill in the early eighties (nearly fell over at a Simple Minds
gig when Charlie started with the "gliss"). Back to Daevid Allen, Daevid and
co supported Hawkwind in the early nineties and the gliss baton passed to
Dave Brock.
There's bound to be more....

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Amphetamine Embalmer <superskrull666 at YAHOO.CO.UK>
To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Date: 15 February 2003 18:31
Subject: OFF: Simple Minds/Legendary Pink Dots


>boc-l,
>I just got the "Real to Real Cacophony" collection by
>Simple Minds in the cheap bin and it's great. I swear
>early Simple Minds was Legendary Pink Dots in
>disguise. Anyone care to recommend any albums.
>Favorite tracks are "Naked Eye", "Carnival (Shelter In
>A Suitcase)" and "Calling Your Name".
>
>Not only that, but the SM track "Premonition" could be
>the LPD track "Premonition 13" and "Film Theme" could
>be "Film Of The Book" if you were to compare title and
>New Wave atmospherics.
>
>Anyway, I wonder what albums the tracks on "RtRC" were
>taken from. They are all dated 1982 and all produced
>by John Leckie (ov Stone Roses fame)
>
>(Plus Jim Kerr and Edward Ka-Spel are lookalikes.
>However, I always started confusing Simply Red with
>Simple Minds on MTV when "Alive And Kicking" was a big
>hit because I hated it and hated Simply Red. But
>everything before that was okay. The "Breakfast Club"
>thing was the last good single they had. What was it
>called again? Sexeee.... :)
>
>regards,
>Christian
>(A Crap Goth)
>
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