OFF: "Live Drug" by Sun Dial

[mary]

" If you ever return Stateside I  
> need a CDR badly........!!!"Do you want me to look for a copy for you.

Mary
-----Original Message-----
From: BOC/Hawkwind Discussion List
[mailto:BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET]On Behalf Of Carl Edlund Anderson
Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 1:40 PM
To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET
Subject: Re: OFF: "Live Drug" by Sun Dial


On 17 Apr 2009, at 11:21, Christian Mumford wrote:
>> The cassette of _Live Drug_?  I think I have a CD, though I think
>> it's also in the States.
>
> The cassette is dubbed from the CD. If you ever return Stateside I  
> need a CDR badly........!!!


Ah, right!  OK, I'll keep that in mind.  I will _eventually_ get my  
CDs sent to me, or carried over, and that _might_ happen sometime in  
the next year -- but the time lines are hazy.


> Their early years (read: Other Way Out) were definetily the  
> creative peak before he went too experimental with electronics or  
> moved too far away from the guitar-psych format. Though Zen For  
> Sale is more like the rockier stuff (very heavy psych, not techno  
> doldrums of Libertine or whatever he was noodling on about there  
> during that, though the follow up Acid Yantra was a welcome return  
> to the early SD sound...)


I felt like the Libertine-era stuff was kind of a half-arsed effort  
to drift into the Brit-pop scene, though confused by some kind of  
weird techno obsession of the sort which weighed down Hawkwind in the  
90s ...  And in another slightly different universe, that might have  
worked for Sun Dial, at least in the short term, though I'm sort of  
glad it didn't!  I think I heard some Zen for Sale stuff via MySpace  
or something, and it did seem like one of those much-heralded-and- 
seldom-received "returns to form", as with Acid Yantra (which I do  
have, though it's probably also stashed in the States).


> Yeah, a cool B&W video. And I also saw a video on 120 Minutes (the  
> annoying face of Paul King haunts me still every now and then here  
> at the Barracks) for Ship Of Fools  "L=sD'2" around the same time  
> of that and Ozrics "Sploosh!" was used in a BMW commercial. 1991  
> was an awesome flash of psychedelia on the "telly".... where the  
> "Crusties" were so smelly. And the Mondays were Happy and the Roses  
> Always Stoney---->


I'm actually one of those weird people who kinda likes bits of the  
second/final Stone Roses album.  "Love Spreads" has a cool riff, with  
a kind of "psychedelic Zep" thing going on ....

Actually, I always felt that Libertine-era Sun Dial wanted to do a  
Stone Roses kind of thing, though  luckily (for us) they had too much  
cred ... or something! ;)

Cheers,
Carl
>

--
Carl Edlund Anderson
http://www.carlaz.com/