HW: Some thoughts about the "Take Me To Your Leader" Tour

[Doug Pearson]

On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 14:36:40 +0100, bernhard.pospiech <bernhard.pospiech at T-
ONLINE.DE> wrote:

>What is the new tour called ? Yes, TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER.
>It is based on the new CD and the theme of this CD is CLONING
>
>I think that the songs during a gig (of the new tour) should be related
>with the CLONING theme
>(Like most of the songs during the Black Sword tour were releded with
>the BS theme)
>
>
>A) These songs have NOTHING to do with the CLONING theme:
>
>1) sword of the east
>2) hassan I sahba / space is their
>3) ode to a time flower

If they're going to do a Robert Calvert cover, wouldn't "Test Tube
Conceived" be the obvious choice for this tour?  Actually, I could imagine
that being sung by Alan in his "real" voice (which is a bit thin and
vulnerable-sounding, well-suited to the resigned emotion of the song) as
opposed to his gruff "Lemmy" voice.

>4) wave upon wave
>5) psychedelic warlords

It strikes me that neither "Brainstorm", "Assault & Battery"/"Golden
Void", "Magnu" (unless it's a cloned horse ala Dolly the Sheep, I guess),
nor "Hassan i Sahba" have anything to do with cloning (or even
androids/robotics).  Is it possible to have a HW setlist without *any* of
those songs in it?  When's the last time THAT happened? ;^)

>B) No idea about these songs:
>
>11) welcome

I think that "Welcome" fits any theme related to the potential
failings/pitfalls of new technology, sort of a "Brave New World" theme.

>Here are some songs which should fit perfectly to the theme of the
>forthcoming tour:
>- Orgone Accumulator
>- Arrival In Utopia
>- Born To Go
>- Children Of The Sun
>- Dust Of Time (!)
>- Fable Of A Failed Race
>- Heads
>- Infinity
>- Micro Man
>- Transdimensional Man
>- We Took the Wrong Step Years Ago
>- Robot
>- ...

Good choices!  "Fable of a Failed Race" is a song I'd love to hear them try
out.  I think it would sound great sung by Dave.

>I am sure that there are many more...
>
>Please let me know what you think

Possibly "Right To Decide" (since it's a song about conformity, albeit not
necessarily conformity as extreme as being a clone!), maybe "25 Years" too
(wasn't the 25th anniversary of the first test tube baby a couple years
ago?), then.  Any of those Ron Tree raps/rants that mentioned "genetic
engineering" ;^).  Too bad they don't have a song that covers biology the
same way that "Quark, Strangeness & Charm" covers astrophysics (but I can't
think of any good double-entendres around names like Watson and Crick).

There must be more ...

    -Doug
     jasret at mindspring.com