[boc-l] BOC: Gun 2021

[Abra Cadabra]

Yes the Dictators!!! Always them and Fabienne Shine and Fred Smith!
Niagara! Meet the creeper... The Eternal, Sonic Youth.... RIP Ron....
Christian

ons. 17. mar. 2021, 01:11 skrev Jonathan Jarrett via boc-l <
boc-l at lists.ispnet.net>:

> On Tue, 16 Mar 2021, Andy Gilham via boc-l wrote:
> > So George Geranios has dusted off a 1978 demo of "Gun", tweaked the mix,
> got Al and Joe to record new vocal and drum parts, and put it on YouTube.
> It's kinda cool!
> > www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDybsMRWVSc<
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDybsMRWVSc>
>
>         That *is* pretty cool. Quite a different song from the tBS version
> on _Box of Hammers_. However, it's led me via Youtube suggestions to the
> _In the West_ 1975 version of `Maserati GT' and that's *fantastic*!
> Recommended to put a grin back on your face if one had left it...
>
>         I never did post about the new album, did I? Suffice for now to
> say I think it's excellent and have played it at others who thought so.
> Also definitely an album by the new band, especially Richie, but also
> clearly a BÖC album; after first listening to it I found I wanted to play
> all the 80s albums. This one may be better than everything post-Al,
> however. _Heaven Forbid_ is up there with it.
>
>         As for _Re-Imaginos_, that just made me so glad to hear. Some of
> those versions are now how I think the songs go. The `Siege and
> Investiture' may still be behind the tBS one for me, but they all have a
> place in my world. Anyway, I'm glad that even if no-one wanted to be in
> this situation, that at least it's pushed some of my remaining favourite
> musicians back into the studio with such excellent results. These are
> riches we might never have had without the pandemic. Weird, innit? I hope
> you've all managed to pass unscathed and my sympathies if you haven't,
> yours all,
>            Jon
>
> ObCDTillILoadedThatLink: Dictators - _DFFD_ (which I only own because
> someone--Tim Bart, I think?--put its first track, `Who Will Save
> Rock'n'Roll', on one of the Last Tapes of May getting on for quite some
> time ago...
> --
>         Jonathan Jarrett, Keighley and University of Leeds
>      "Says not the Wise One, `When two men cannot agree over
>       the price of an onion, who shall decide what happened
>      in the time of Yu?'" (Kai Lung, reported by Ernest Bramah)
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