Alan Davey Vision Quest Request

[Steve Swann]

I have that too, plus the "documentary" about their efforts to stage it.  ;-)

Steve

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Arin Komins <akomins at uchicago.edu> wrote:
> 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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> : -----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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