OFF: worldcon

[Doug Pearson]

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 12:21:40 -0500, Arin Komins
<akomins at MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU> wrote:
>On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Stephan Forstner wrote:
>
>:Subject: Re: OFF: worldcon
>:
>:On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 11:07:44 -0400, David Kuznick
>:<dkuznick at ALUMNI.BRANDEIS.EDU> wrote:
>:
>:> Let's see. There is likely a Ginger Baker->Robert Fripp link to bring
>:> it on topic.  Aha, got it.  John Mclaughlin was in The Graham Bond
>:> Organisation, and Robert did a pretty famous interview with John
>:> McLaughlin in Musician magazine in 1982.  Ta-da!
>:
>:No no, you go via Fripp & Eno, since Eno was all over Calvert's first 2
>:solo albums!

... and Paul Rudolph was all over three of Eno's first four solo albums.

>For an even more tenuous link:
>
>Norman Spinrad has played on and off with Heldon, who has a song named In
>the Wake of King Fripp (dedicated to Fripp and Eno).

That's a fascinating piece of trivia I did not know!  I like Heldon, but
I've hardly heard all their stuff.

But what I REALLY want to know is, what band has J.G. Ballard (HW-links:
author of 'High Rise' [did anyone who heard the Spirits Burning version
notice the PETA-unfriendly nod to the first/last scenes of that book?]
and 'The Drowned World', which refers to more than one "City Of Lagoons")
worked with?  (None, AFAIK; the closest link is that his 'Atrocity
Exhibition' was published by Re/Search, former publishers of 1977-era Bay
Area punk fanzine "Search And Destroy".)

>Hawkwind's The Iron Dream, was likely inspired by the Spinrad book of the
>same name ;-)

Too bad that one wasn't accompanied by a depiction of Bob fighting nazis
on mars!  Would've fit well with his combat fatigues / aviator helmet
look ...

    -Doug
     jasret at mindspring.com