BOC: So long and thanks for the fish

[Jason C. Hillenburg]

Heaven Forbid is very patchy for me. John Shirley wasn't a great choice for lyrics and some of the tunes sounded dated on release. Curse is a little better, a little closer in spirit to the original band. If it must be, better that stand as BOC's final album than the likes of Club Ninja. Yikes! 

Buck is writing again and well, so perhaps we'll hear more from him. I doubt if any incarnation of BOC records again. 

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From: "Abra Cadabra" <anacondaconan at GMAIL.COM> 
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Sent: Thursday, April 2, 2015 1:24:24 PM 
Subject: Re: BOC: So long and thanks for the fish 

both Heaven Forbid and Curse Of The Hidden Mirrors are nice albums 
from the latter day BOC. I guess unlike the continuing ship sailing of 
Hawkwind, BOC is pretty much "all is said and done and discussed" and 
less BOC fans in that sense... 

I was a HW fan and got into BOC after this list in the mid 90s... 
picked up Workshop Of The Telescopes and did some BOC trades i used to 
find CD copies of Imaginos used in Oslo and traded them rarities here 
for HW or other stuff... 

Christian 

2015-04-02 12:39 GMT+02:00 Jonathan Jarrett <jjarrett at coriolis.greenend.org.uk>: 
> 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 
> 
> -- 
>   Jonathan Jarrett       "There is scarce any tradition or popular error 
> Medievalist historian    but stands also delivered by some good author." 
>      Birmingham         (Sir Thomas Browne, "Pseudodoxia Epidemica", 1646)