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Post by marty on Jul 26, 2022 22:37:27 GMT
Thanks to Reaper, we can all talk about other stuff. How about Bonomo’s Turkish Taffy, cuz nothing can top it, or even come close. Love it Martso and Bucks lead-more than adequate on that too!! Def one of my faves from the Cali sessions. I also love the title track, COTHM, AC and Don’s Monkey.
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Post by sirrastus on Jul 27, 2022 0:03:09 GMT
Love it Martso and Bucks lead-more than adequate on that too!! Def one of my faves from the Cali sessions. I also love the title track, COTHM, AC and Don’s Monkey. All great I may have already stated how Bucks lead break on SC is IMO the best West Coast lead break -jam of all time.I wonder how Buck looking back feels about it-usually you have a tendency to say "Well it was good for that time but I think I could improve upon it now" but sometimes a homerun is just that a homerun.And Buck was certainly advanced enough to be hitting homeruns back then as we all know. BTW I love the Who harmony part in Bonomo's and the Who chording in Donovans Monkey plus who the feck would ever write a song about Killer Kowalski LOL.I think I saw him wrestle at Sunnyside Gardens in Queens with the Cub Scouts(no idiot the Cub Scouts weren't on the wrestling card that night).With The Claw(or as they said on Get Smart "The claw..the craw? ).
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Post by druid on Jul 27, 2022 0:34:32 GMT
It was a very good interview. For non BOC fans a must see.
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Post by sirrastus on Jul 27, 2022 0:47:55 GMT
Well prepared and asked pertinent questions.All you could ask for.
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Post by markus on Jul 27, 2022 2:41:05 GMT
While I'm always appreciative of current day interviews, Another Part of Me is a little tired of most of them being reaper-centric. Especially post cowbell. I understand it's their most universally known song but there are so many others I would love to hear discussed. BOC commerce and general media is 90% Reaper-related/originating, thankfully there are no woke inquiries regarding BOC influences such as Lovecraft or references i.e. Celine.
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Post by warrior21 on Jul 27, 2022 3:04:35 GMT
Def one of my faves from the Cali sessions. I also love the title track, COTHM, AC and Don’s Monkey. All great I may have already stated how Bucks lead break on SC is IMO the best West Coast lead break -jam of all time.I wonder how Buck looking back feels about it-usually you have a tendency to say "Well it was good for that time but I think I could improve upon it now" but sometimes a homerun is just that a homerun.And Buck was certainly advanced enough to be hitting homeruns back then as we all know. BTW I love the Who harmony part in Bonomo's and the Who chording in Donovans Monkey plus who the feck would ever write a song about Killer Kowalski LOL.I think I saw him wrestle at Sunnyside Gardens in Queens with the Cub Scouts(no idiot the Cub Scouts weren't on the wrestling card that night).With The Claw(or as they said on Get Smart "The claw..the craw? ). I’m laughing out loud envisioning a pack of a Cub Scouts climbing into a wrestling ring to face Killer Kowalski. 😂
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Post by sirrastus on Jul 27, 2022 8:19:58 GMT
All great I may have already stated how Bucks lead break on SC is IMO the best West Coast lead break -jam of all time.I wonder how Buck looking back feels about it-usually you have a tendency to say "Well it was good for that time but I think I could improve upon it now" but sometimes a homerun is just that a homerun.And Buck was certainly advanced enough to be hitting homeruns back then as we all know. BTW I love the Who harmony part in Bonomo's and the Who chording in Donovans Monkey plus who the feck would ever write a song about Killer Kowalski LOL.I think I saw him wrestle at Sunnyside Gardens in Queens with the Cub Scouts(no idiot the Cub Scouts weren't on the wrestling card that night).With The Claw(or as they said on Get Smart "The claw..the craw? ). I’m laughing out loud envisioning a pack of a Cub Scouts climbing into a wrestling ring to face Killer Kowalski. 😂 LOL Woody Allen went that route with a Boy Scout pack in Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex in a funny scene with John Carradine as a mad scientist.
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Post by joe on Jul 30, 2022 2:18:53 GMT
Point taken about interview's emphasis on Reaper/Cowbell, but there's no avoiding it, so it goes. There was a point during the interview when you started talking about Hammer vampire movies I think, and if the interviewer were me, I’d have used that as a pivot to the lengthy history of vampire imagery in BOC music. But I still learned stuff I never knew before from this interview, such as the mandate to record at a label owned studio for the first three albums. Hammer films: wow, that brings back a lot of memories. I was a sci-fi/horror movie fanatic as a kid. One can't think of a Hammer vampire movie without visualizing Christopher Lee out to bite you. Looks like Christopher Lee starred in 7 of the vampire films. And the mention of Hammer also makes me immediately think of Peter Cushing. These things aired on TV in my town either late evening (11 PM or so) or Saturday afternoons. Watched them every weekend they came on all the way through elementary, then re-watched them off and on during HS and college on rainy nights when I was stuck at home for whatever reason. Hammer had a lot of vampire and other sci-fi/monster material that could have inspired BOC tunes. I was distracted the first time I watched the interview, so I missed the part about Hammer. I have a feeling Buck and I watched a lot of the same movies back in the day....
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Post by pacnw on Jul 30, 2022 10:03:22 GMT
There was a point during the interview when you started talking about Hammer vampire movies I think, and if the interviewer were me, I’d have used that as a pivot to the lengthy history of vampire imagery in BOC music. But I still learned stuff I never knew before from this interview, such as the mandate to record at a label owned studio for the first three albums. Hammer films: wow, that brings back a lot of memories. I was a sci-fi/horror movie fanatic as a kid. One can't think of a Hammer vampire movie without visualizing Christopher Lee out to bite you. Looks like Christopher Lee starred in 7 of the vampire films. And the mention of Hammer also makes me immediately think of Peter Cushing. These things aired on TV in my town either late evening (11 PM or so) or Saturday afternoons. Watched them every weekend they came on all the way through elementary, then re-watched them off and on during HS and college on rainy nights when I was stuck at home for whatever reason. Hammer had a lot of vampire and other sci-fi/monster material that could have inspired BOC tunes. I was distracted the first time I watched the interview, so I missed the part about Hammer. I have a feeling Buck and I watched a lot of the same movies back in the day.... Curse of Frankenstein (1957) was maybe the first really violent/gory horror film. I remember being shocked at the monster's appearance in that one.
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Post by sirrastus on Jul 30, 2022 14:50:17 GMT
Hammer films: wow, that brings back a lot of memories. I was a sci-fi/horror movie fanatic as a kid. One can't think of a Hammer vampire movie without visualizing Christopher Lee out to bite you. Looks like Christopher Lee starred in 7 of the vampire films. And the mention of Hammer also makes me immediately think of Peter Cushing. These things aired on TV in my town either late evening (11 PM or so) or Saturday afternoons. Watched them every weekend they came on all the way through elementary, then re-watched them off and on during HS and college on rainy nights when I was stuck at home for whatever reason. Hammer had a lot of vampire and other sci-fi/monster material that could have inspired BOC tunes. I was distracted the first time I watched the interview, so I missed the part about Hammer. I have a feeling Buck and I watched a lot of the same movies back in the day.... Curse of Frankenstein (1957) was maybe the first really violent/gory horror film. I remember being shocked at the monster's appearance in that one. I saw the re-release double feature of Curse Of Frankenstein/Horror Of Dracula probably around 1965.They had put out a special magazine featuring those two films obviously coinciding with the release.As for Hammer one of my closest friends Steve Swires wrote almost exclusively on British horror for Fangoria magazine.He interviewed everyone.
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Post by The Ocean on Jul 31, 2022 1:55:14 GMT
I miss the old-school vampires of the era when there was this sort of inherent eroticism to it. Eventually movies tried to make vampires more like zombies and made them more like bloodthirsty animals. As much as I think 30 Days of Night or John Carpenter’s Vampire$ are fun movies, they really also took away what the appeal of vampire stories were and made them into less brainless zombies.
The vampires of yore had culture, intelligence, wit, sex appeal, they were there to TEMPT people and lure them in, not destroy them with brute force. Anybody remember the original Salem’s Lot miniseries with Michael Moriarty? The kids floating outside the window saying “join us”? That’s a vampire to me. They talk. They goad. They plot and scheme. None of this breaking down doors and snapping peoples neck crap.
There’s a show called Van Helsing on Sy Fy, and I can’t stress enough that I DO enjoy the show, but they aren’t vampires to me. They’re zombies with higher intelligence.
That said, you can take a show with a more traditional take on vampires like the new Dracula and the show itself can still be terrible lol.
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Post by joe on Jul 31, 2022 2:45:28 GMT
I miss the old-school vampires of the era when there was this sort of inherent eroticism to it. Eventually movies tried to make vampires more like zombies and made them more like bloodthirsty animals. As much as I think 30 Days of Night or John Carpenter’s Vampire$ are fun movies, they really also took away what the appeal of vampire stories were and made them into less brainless zombies. The vampires of yore had culture, intelligence, wit, sex appeal, they were there to TEMPT people and lure them in, not destroy them with brute force. Anybody remember the original Salem’s Lot miniseries with Michael Moriarty? The kids floating outside the window saying “join us”? That’s a vampire to me. They talk. They goad. They plot and scheme. None of this breaking down doors and snapping peoples neck crap. There’s a show called Van Helsing on Sy Fy, and I can’t stress enough that I DO enjoy the show, but they aren’t vampires to me. They’re zombies with higher intelligence. That said, you can take a show with a more traditional take on vampires like the new Dracula and the show itself can still be terrible lol. We really liked "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (1992). IF I remember right (I've seen so many versions), this one had some of the good qualities you mentioned. In fact we have a full size poster of it hanging in our house. During a "romantic" part the theater was silent and a guy in the row behind us made a three word comment with a great appropriate accent that had the whole area around him either laughing or cringing. I was in the LOL group. Back to a music-related item, Jon Bon Jovi was the star of the "2002 Vampires: Los Muertos" (executive producer John Carpenter). It was "different" to see a rock star being a vampire hunter. There is still a lot more rock music waiting to be written with vampire-related themes.
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Post by edog40 on Jul 31, 2022 3:59:56 GMT
I agree with you. Same type of situation with Don McLeans' American Pie which is getting a lot of publicity recently with the 50th anniversary documentary. I saw McLean right after I saw BOC at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn(Great sound) and I will never tire of American Pie. Paramount has an hour long documentary about American Pie and features Don McClean.
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Post by edog40 on Jul 31, 2022 4:06:28 GMT
Did no one else catch the FZ reference? Telefunken U-47
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Post by The Ocean on Jul 31, 2022 5:49:27 GMT
Did no one else catch the FZ reference? Telefunken U-47 Keep it greasy
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