BOC: Imaginos

[Steve Swann]

I absolutely love the Imaginos version, especially the part around 1:55
that starts with: "It rained so hard," said Injun Joe...
Steve

On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at carlaz.com> wrote:

> On 08 Oct 2012, at 15:17 , Jonathan Jarrett <
> jjarrett at CORIOLIS.GREENEND.ORG.UK> wrote:
> >
> > I didn't see anyone else mention what you may already know, Carl, that
> there are two versions of `Gil Blanco County' on _St Cecilia_, the Stalk
> Forrest Group album that was put out a few years ago. Not much there is
> stately, though it's all marvellous. While quite a lot of BOC, and
> specifically _Imaginos_ is many places could be said to sound of dark
> things lurking in the woods at night, `Gil Blanco County' on the SFG album
> sounds of sun through trees in the daytime, so I don't know quite how it
> must have wound up in 1988...
>
> Yeah, the SFG Gil Blancos have a very West-Coast kind of vibe ... verging
> on folky.  Like bits of The Byrds getting mixed in with bits of the
> Airplane; one can imagine an Acid-Test-era Dead having a go at it and
> mangling the vocals (and probably much else! :)).  If I may get very freaky
> with unexpected comparisons, it recalls early Fairport Convention for that
> matter! (Perhaps only Richard Thompson might have also navigated the fairly
> clean-toned yet blistering guitar runs in there!)
>
> Praises for the SFG release are rightly sun in a review on Julian Cope's
> Head Heritage site: http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/review/1733/
>
> Anyway ....  The "lost" Gil Blanco of the Imaginos sessions sounds rather
> different!  It's starts with a vibe of dark things lurking, and then
> perhaps emerges in New Orleans rather than Marin County. You may "view" it
> here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZqbjuXRiVk
>
> Cheers,
> Carl
>
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