Alan Davey Vision Quest Request

[Arin Komins]

Steve,

I can also highly recommend the HPLHS version of Fiddler on the Roof (A Shoggoth on the Roof).  It's hysterical.

Their radio adventures are pretty good, too.

Arin
(also a HPL fan.  Unsurprisingly.)
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Arin Komins                                  
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: -----Original Message-----
: From: BOC/Hawkwind Discussion List [mailto:BOC-
: L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET] On Behalf Of Steve Swann
: Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 8:50 AM
: To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET
: Subject: Re: Alan Davey Vision Quest Request
: 
: Lovecraftiana is one of my other great enthusiasms besides
: BOC/Hawkwind.  ;-)  This Holiday season I was listening to the "Scary
: Solstice" albums by the awesome and wonderful H.P. Lovecraft
: Historical Society:
: 
: http://www.cthulhulives.org/store/store.lasso?1=product&2=122
: 
: My friends and I have had these albums for a few years now, and some
: of us have virtually forgotten the "real" lyrics to a lot of these
: carols....  ;-)
: 
: Steve
: 
: 
: On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Mary Sullivan
: <maryann.sullivan1 at verizon.net> wrote:
: > Jonathan Smith wrote:
: >>>>> ..... in an infinitely probable alternate universe -- Alan's
: >>>>> Bedouin has recently produced a fine "Arabic space doom" concept
: >>>>> album for Rise Above based around Lovecraft's character "
: >
: > Although I don't agree with Mr. Lovecraft's attitudes toward women
: and black
: > people I do like a good story, even though after a while the stories
: follow
: > a similar pattern.  I'd think one would need to take care in that
: alternate
: > universe, I wouldn't want to cross paths with that mad Arab he refers
: to so
: > often.  A concept album would be really cool.  Vision Quest is such a
: great
: > song.
: >
: > Mary
: >
: > -----Original Message-----
: > From: BOC/Hawkwind Discussion List [mailto:BOC-
: L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET] On
: > Behalf Of Jonathan Jarrett
: > Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 2:25 PM
: > To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET
: > Subject: Re: Alan Davey Vision Quest Request
: >
: >
: > On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, Jonathan Smith wrote:
: >
: >> It would work for sure! :) The idea of Arabic psychedelia sounds
: >> great. *
: >> Bellymetal* (Kephra seem to be its sole band) sounds too good to be
: true.
: >> There was Hassan i Sabbah....
: >>
: >> 2009/12/14 Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at carlaz.com>
: >>
: >>> On 14 Dec 2009, at 07:41 , Jonathan Smith wrote:
: >>>>> ..... in an infinitely probable alternate universe -- Alan's
: >>>>> Bedouin has recently produced a fine "Arabic space doom" concept
: >>>>> album for Rise Above based around Lovecraft's character "Abdul
: >>>>> Alhazred". If only I could dimension hop to the right universe in
: >>>>> order to hear it! :)
: >>>>
: >>>> I'd love to hear that! Not that anyone's sanity would be intact
: >>>> after listening to it! ;)
: >>>
: >>> It would totally work, though, no?
: >>>
: >>> There's a list on MySpace of "oriental/arabic metal" groups --
: >>> http://groups.myspace.com/orientalmetal -- though I kind of dig the
: >>> label "bellymetal", which I hadn't encountered before but rather
: wish
: >>> I had. :)  The genre seems heavy on death/black metal groups ...
: but
: >>> I totally see a space in which psychedelically tinged doom,
: underlain
: >>> by Alan's surging bass lines, could play ....  Well, in that
: >>> charmingly alternate universe, anyway!
: >
: >        A long time ago when Bedouin were still touring and I had
: > something to do with putting them on in Cambridge, I actually talked
: with
: > Alan about something similar to this; he wanted to find a female
: vocalist
: > who could do genuine Arabian-style singing for the next Bedouin album
: (I
: > can't remember if there was even one then, I'm pretty sure this was
: after
: > Sean Masset left but I'm not even sure of that, it was a *long* time
: ago)
: > so as to make music that really lived up to the potential of the
: name.
: > It's therefore kind of weird to find him collaborating with Bridget
: > Wishart again now! That's almost the antithesis of that plan! I'd
: like
: > to think that if he'd found the sinder, it would have been the album
: you
: > envision, Carl, it could completely have worked, you're right. And
: Rise
: > Above would have been a natural home for it; we've often commented
: here, I
: > remember, on how strange it was that Bedouin never crossed the
: > space/stoner divide, which really isn't that big.
: >
: >        Also, congratulations on parenthood, since I'm running in my
: usual
: > message timewarp here. It's easier than it seems when you're actually
: > facing it, you will soon find out. But you were always good with
: children
: > anyway so really this is just an excellent excuse to indulge that
: tendency
: > :-) Good luck, yours,
: >                      Jon
: >
: > ObCD: Clutch - _Elephant Riders_
: > --
: >       Jonathan Jarrett, Cambridge    jjarrett at
: chiark.greenend.org.uk
: >
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: >