[boc-l] BOC: Gun 2021

[Jonathan Jarrett]

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)