From andygilham at outlook.com Tue Mar 16 19:26:07 2021 From: andygilham at outlook.com (Andy Gilham) Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2021 23:26:07 +0000 Subject: [boc-l] BOC: Gun 2021 Message-ID: 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jjarrett at coriolis.greenend.org.uk Tue Mar 16 20:11:34 2021 From: jjarrett at coriolis.greenend.org.uk (Jonathan Jarrett) Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 00:11:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [boc-l] BOC: Gun 2021 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 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 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 B?C 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)