Nik wants into all your wallets NOW :)

[Jonathan Smith]

I tend to agree. Most of his projects tend to have a couple of really good
tracks, but admittedly no real classic album. I would go and see him play
covers if he played near where i live but that will never happen obviously.

I remember seeing Bob Calvert with Krankschaft. The audience was small even
in London yet Alan seems to be confident that he can tour with Capt
Lockheed. Space is slightly more popular than those days...
On 26 Aug 2013 20:36, "Carl Edlund Anderson" <cea at carlaz.com> wrote:

> On 24 Aug 2013, at 23:30 , Jonathan Smith <smithjm77x7 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > With the SRS live album he seemed to have got somewhere but maybe there
> wad
> > not enough support to keep it going....
> > Bedouin seemed like it might do something, although I prefer his later
> > albums. They are not that consistent. Maybe there isn't too much market
> for
> > space rock? Shame, I am sure the world needs more of it :〉
>
> I sort of classify all of Alan's solo projects as "Alan's solo projects"
> regardless of how they are billed. ;)  There's stuff I like from (obviously
> enough) his HW tenure through Captured Rotation and on through the relative
> present with Eclectic Devils, but he tends to have a great songs scattered
> here and there (IMO) instead of consistently great albums -- or a
> consistently great album or two.  If you took all of Al's best stuff,
> _that_ would be a pretty great album. :)  I realize that he's probably
> sunning on a shoe-string, and musicians with whom one might work are flaky,
> and some cover-band stuff will pay the bills, but ... Oh well!
>
> Anyway, I think we can assume that there isn't much market for space-rock
> ;) though there seems to have been a renaissance in stoner rock in recent
> years. (Not that I suspect this translates into huge revenues for anyone
> ...)
>
> Cheers,
> Carl
>
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