Nik wants into all your wallets NOW :)

[Jonathan Smith]

You have to be in the mood for Viv Stanshall, but he was a genius.
Everything he  recorded  is  available  through

http://www.vivarchive.org.uk/

or was at one time. I have a couple of DVDs full of his unique humour.

*Captured  Rotation *is very good, but the sound (not the music) is a
little off somehow. *Cyber Tooth* is excellent but I can't see him touring
with it.


On 26 August 2013 22:53, mike c <insect.brain at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd appreciate anything about Viv Stanshall.
> I inherited a copy of Tubular Bells recently, and got to hear that
> after decades of hearing about it.
> I basically hate it but it certainly isn't Viv's fault :) :)
>
> and
>
> I can't remember if I asked here before, but Alan's "Captured
> Rotation" is a somewhat cherished recording to me, but the original CD
> seems like it suffers dramatically in mastering, whatever it is that
> makes the sound "thin".
> has that been repaired and I bet an LP could do wonders
>
> On 8/26/13, Jonathan Smith <smithjm77x7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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/
> >>
> >
>