what is your top 5

[Stephan Forstner]

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 pauleatonjones <paul at IMRRYR.KAROO.CO.UK> wrote:
>   I actually think that Bring Me The Head.... is a fairly good album.
>Texts Of festival is fabulous, I wish that side four of the vinyl l.p.
>had been transfered to c.d.

Absolutely, Text presents for us the genesis of spacerock in all its
extended druggy glory, and I've already defended Yuri here - its a bootleg,
so you have to adjust for the crap sound and judge it on the performance
which is fantastic.

>  Does anyone out there think that E.M.I. short-changed us and the band
>when they did the remastering of The Space Ritual? They had access to
>the original tapes and failed spectacularly when they didn't do the
>whole of the concert.

I disagree here, EMI was reissuing an ALBUM so they should and did put out
the album as it was, with the extras tacked on at the end. The full show
could be released separately, probably as part of a Collector Series deal
since there would be so much overlap that an official release could be
considered exploitation - but then look at the catalog anyway. However, I
think we and the band DID get shortchanged by the Cleopatra reissue of
Space Ritual Vol 2.0, at least musicwise (the packaging is among the best
HW has). They were rumored to be releasing the whole concert (and if you
read the liner notes I think the scribe they recruited was under that
impression too) but ended up only giving us what was already available
(multiple times) via the Dave Anderson clone factory.

Stephan