HW Space Ritual

[mike coleman]

what are you doing here on the forum. It's the weekend and didn't  I assign
you a campy b-movie.......nevermind
I've been through my NikWind/Grenas/Creed/Thoms stuff, and looking back, now
that the tension between camps is past, right? , allI I can say is overall
that quality of spacerock I do not believe I can find short of Hawkwind
_version Devonshire_ , in all the land far and wide
MANDATORY
true, I still may have mixed feelings about Nik's psychedelic codpiece and
hockey helmet, and maybe he's out of tune vocally on some stuff, but
nontheless what a blessing
I had never played TRANSGLOBAL...what a surprise, to find me some eyes
is there a word for "fear of codpieces"?? nevermind again,  and Trev it
sounds like you're a brown-note believer, wow, I guess I am a skeptic too
about something
music is 1' and zeros
music is deep


On 12/20/08, trev <judge48 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> which brings us to the question of
> "What is Music"?
>
> Music is the oil of life
>
> Music can calm
> Music can enrage
> Inspire
> Amuse
> Distract
> Kill
> Provide emotional release
> Cause self-transcendence
> etc
>
> it is a thing of belief
> and analysis
>
> it's a very subjective thing as far as ones personal enjoyment goes
>
> he he
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Paul Mather" <paul at GROMIT.DLIB.VT.EDU>
> Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 11:18 PM
> To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
> Subject: Re: HW Space Ritual
>
>  On 19 Dec 2008, at 4:23 AM, Ian Abrahams wrote:
>>
>> Bernhard,
>>>
>>> Honestly, I think you've really missed the point here... a live gig  is a
>>> live gig, it's for the people who turn up and enjoy the event -  which I
>>> know people who attended did enjoy... so that's the context  of the show and
>>> it was a fantastic event and, really, 'end of  story'. Great to get a show
>>> to listen to afterwards but that's  always out of context.
>>>
>>> It wasn't 'crap'... it just wasn't... sorry!
>>>
>>> You say it didn't work for you and other people... you weren't  there! It
>>> wasn't assembled to be picked over on a bootleg, it was  put on for people
>>> to go and get a buzz from on the day... please,  context, always context!
>>>  :)
>>>
>>
>> I agree!  The canonical example of this, for me, is "Wild Thing" from  the
>> _Jimi Plays Monterey_ album.  The latter part of the song is  pretty boring
>> to listen to on disc (where Mitch and Noel are raging  away creating a wild
>> cacophony and Jimi is physically abusing his  guitar) but it's probably one
>> of the iconic moments in live rock  history and must have been an absolute
>> blinder for those who were in  attendance.  It's a perfect example of a
>> stellar gig that doesn't  translate over to the audio document.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Paul.
>>
>> e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu
>>
>> "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production
>>  deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."
>>        --- Frank Vincent Zappa
>>
>>