Nik wants into all your wallets NOW :)

[Jonathan Smith]

At least you can  actually  buy  obscure  spacer rock psychedelia now and
Cds are cheap to produce.

Capt Lockheed was unique-- a huge cast of characters and famous people. Bob
Calvert didn't manage to tour with it, for whatever reasons. Bob Calvert is
impossible to really imitate (although Ron Tree did his vocals pretty
well), but all  comedy  sketches.... Nobody can even remotely sound like
Viv Stanshall, and I doubt Arthur Brown will turn up. Do we need more
covers of the The Right Stuff with the inevitable sample of Viv Stanshall?
It might be OK live, however.


On 26 August 2013 22:04, Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at carlaz.com> wrote:

> On 26 Aug 2013, at 08:09 , Jonathan Smith <smithjm77x7 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> +1, here!
>
> > 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...
>
> That may be -- I think the ongoing growth of the Internet and social media
> have helped re-kindle interest in fans that might otherwise have lost it,
> as well as helped the genre reach new fans. I don't think we're looking at
> space-rock bands about to produce Top 10 singles ;) but ....
>
> Still, touring the Captain Lockheed album ... I think it would be cool if
> they reproduced on the theatrical bits on stage :) but basically this is
> going to revolve around playing "The Right Stuff", "Aerospaceage Inferno",
> and "Ejection", no?  Not that there's anything at all, wrong with that, but
> ....
>
> Cheers,
> Carl
>
> --
> Carl Edlund Anderson
> http://www.carlaz.com/
>