(OFFish) was BBC Now Porcupine Tree

[mary ann sullivan]

Need to find a copy, also I really need to hear the full version of 9 Cats,
since I love that piece.  It will happen.  I look forward to being able to
comment on The Cross, and all those wonderful pieces of music Mr. Wilson has
written that I haven't heard, yet.   PT, are officially my second favorite
band, and the upcoming show is really helping me keep my sanity.  Are there
any trading sites for PT, if so, I guess they're underground,  I plan on
bring a bit of extra money to purchase something at the show, but what, and
where do I start?  Steve, I always loved Magnu, and when I turned Dave Brock
on to the first PT album he thought Jupiter Island sounded like Assault and
Battery, I don't hear the resemblance, that's why Dave's a musician, and I'm
not.  Also, I turned my friend Shani Carey on to PT, and it became a joke
that an American turned her on to music from her side of the pond.
Thanks for giving me something pleasant to think about, I really appreciate
it.

Your friend,

Mary

P.S. Jon,  On the way home from LA in '89 Chris was going to read Cosmic
Trigger, or 1 of the  Robert Anton Wilson books, but I slept for 3 days, and
he ended up reading Macroscope.  We'd have weirded out some folks on the bus
reading about conspiracy theories, and all. We never did get around to
reading the books, and last I checked, they're not available to me, unless I
come up with cash to pay to have them read. During that tour, at the Stone
in Frisco, a flyer for a Robert Anton Wilson talk was left on the Hawkwind
bus. Weird, but I guess it goes with the territory.

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On Sun, 12 Sep 2010, Steve Freight wrote:

> To me it always sounded like Magnu.

>> On 12 September 2010 08:49, Steve Freight <stevefreight at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Re
>>>> peeling back the foggy layers of memory didn't the vinyl exclude 
>>>> "the cross"?
>>> Yes (question of copyright to Prince I think) but pretty sure it 
>>> included OUT the Hawkwind pastiche which was not on the original
release..

 	I have this. It is basically `Magnu', complete with words and synth
sax solo,  but as with the way Mr Wilson's cover of `Hallgallo' 
turned into `Signify' halfway through it changes shape dramatically in the
middle, with a hammering break in rising chords that Alan Davey would have
been proud to have written and a chorus of "DOUBT! just get out of my head"
repeated with a rising inflection to match the chords. Unlike the
`Hallogallo' thing, however, it returns to shape for one more verse of
`Magnu' before repeating the break and continuing up the scales into a
chaotic finale. It's not bad, although rather constrained by the bedroom
recording scenario--very hard to make chaos sound accidental when you're
deliberately laying it down on four-track by yourself, I imagine. Yours,

Jon

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