BOC: So long and thanks for the fish

[Jonathan Jarrett]

On Wed, 1 Apr 2015, Jeff Thompson wrote:
> Yeah.  Where HAVE the BOC discussions on the net migrated  Do people just 
> hang out on Eric and Donald's FB pages or something?  I really like the 
> listserv format.  Maybe lists, like usenet, are a dying thing.

 	This does, alas, seem to be the state of things. PhD Comics, as so 
often, has it about right:
http://phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1790

> Haven't seen Al in a while.  How many of us BOC fans are left?

 	Well, I came here as a BÖC fan, met Hawkwind and got sucked in... 
I would probably go and see BÖC one more time, but they've been less 
exciting each time I have, and I'm afraid to utterly spoil my memory of 
them. First saw them in 1998, on the Heaven Forbid tour, with Eric still 
in full voice, Danny Maranda on bass and Bobby Rondinelli on drums and 
that was great, tight, fierce and funny when there was a chance to be, 
Allen coming to the front for 'In Thee' and 'Last Days of May'. I still 
think there's some good stuff on that album that is unjustly forgotten. 
But each time they make it here it's with a different rhythm section, 
fewer original members and less energy... Al, however, I will go see in 
any band he can get over here if I only find out about it, and therein 
lies the problem, because I used to get most of my gig notices through 
this here list! Yours,
 			Jon

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   Jonathan Jarrett       "There is scarce any tradition or popular error
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