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Post by marty on May 2, 2019 15:59:48 GMT
I’ve enjoyed hearing everything that didn’t make a BŌC record, even Imaginos, if only to satisfy curiosity, but it’s easy to see why they didn’t make the cut, with maybe one exception...Secret Road.
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Post by robreich on May 3, 2019 0:44:55 GMT
Oh, that’s an exception all right, Martman. It must be on the new album!
Rob
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Post by tom on May 3, 2019 18:29:47 GMT
Absolutely agree with that I play Secret Road all the time-would love to see it given the full BOC treatment
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Post by frog on May 4, 2019 14:46:48 GMT
Absolutely agree with that I play Secret Road all the time-would love to see it given the full BOC treatment
Or the new Godzilla Movie end credit treatment !
just kiddin', Tom, just kiddin'...
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Post by tom on May 5, 2019 17:15:34 GMT
Absolutely agree with that I play Secret Road all the time-would love to see it given the full BOC treatment
Or the new Godzilla Movie end credit treatment !
just kiddin', Tom, just kiddin'...
Jesus wept NOOOOOOOOO way Gerard
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Post by oysterboy on May 6, 2019 10:45:56 GMT
Wow!! More artwork? More treaties? I can only imaginos.
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Post by duckbarman on May 11, 2019 13:50:47 GMT
I forgot all about this outrageous Circus article from May 1974 - this was the month following the release of ST, yet this claims the title of the LP was "Power in the Hands of Fools" - like it was a done deal, and the implications of this are that the name change must have come very close to the release - but that doesn't really compute... but here's the article anyway - I think it'll have to be in 2 sections:
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Post by duckbarman on May 11, 2019 14:03:20 GMT
I never did find out if the guy who wrote the piece was a mate of Pearlman's and was jointly-perpetrating the whole "fluffy-tailed viciousness" joke or if he was the butt of the thing, dutifully writing down whatever nonsense was spoon-fed him with a straight face... I did once wonder if it was actually by Meltzer under an alias, but the style doesn't really seem to fit... Anyway, you'd think if you were reading that in May 1974 with a copy of ST already in your hands that the name change must have been pretty last-minute, and where's this "Borman" thing that was supposed to be on it? But in the NME on 2nd March, Nick Kent (not really a BOC aficionado) wrote: "THE CONCEPT crops up in the mental process of one Desdenova [sic] whom Pearlman has appointed the hero and narrator or the B.O.C.'s next album Secret Treaties.
All the lyrics appear in the first person and even though Messieurdames Smith, Meltzer and Bouchard have all been involved in the words, a linear concept has been constructed to fall in line with Pearlman's preoccupations.
"Desdenova possesses starry wisdom. That's from Lovecraft, y'know – I just liked the term and he's made a secret treaty with the ambassadors of Plutonia..."
Within this plot are worked such gems as Patti Smith's 'Career of Evil', Meltzer's 'Cagey Cretans' (formerly 'Bark in the Sun'), and 'Harvester of Eyes'/'Mystic Stump' – plus Pearlman's 'Astronomy', 'Subhuman', 'A Concentration Camp for Dogs Was Recently Located In New Jersey' and 'ME 262' a paean to the Nazi jet fighter plane."So that shows it was well-known in advance what the title was going to be. It also got a lot of people scratching their heads over "A Concentration Camp for Dogs Was Recently Located In New Jersey" thing but the Circus article above helpfully indicates that that was an earlier title for "Boorman" - which we never got anyway!!
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Post by luxexterior on May 11, 2019 14:15:58 GMT
Rabid rabbits!!! Great stuff.
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Post by Buck on May 11, 2019 20:00:31 GMT
Gordon Fletcher was a friend and admirer of Sandy Pearlman and the band. I don't know why he got the album title wrong, we did consider "Power In the Hands.." as a title for a while, but It wasn't a keeper. All press and promotion went through Sandy at that point in time, and the prevailing rock journalists were a chummy club then, one reason why we got so many good reviews in the early days.
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Post by agent on May 11, 2019 20:19:34 GMT
Gordon Fletcher was a friend and admirer of Sandy Pearlman and the band. I don't know why he got the album title wrong, we did consider "Power In the Hands.." as a title for a while, but It wasn't a keeper. All press and promotion went through Sandy at that point in time, and the prevailing rock journalists were a chummy club then, one reason why we got so many good reviews in the early days. I read through the Circus Print. I almost turned in my "Born In New York" membership card as I, for the life of me, cannot follow what the frig they are getting at. I'm sure if I smoked a Doobie it might make more sense :-) :-)
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Post by duckbarman on May 11, 2019 20:26:10 GMT
one reason why we got so many good reviews in the early days. That... and hash brownies... (actually, thinking about it - maybe that's where the rabid rabbits story/dream came from...?) Cheers for confirming the background info on the author - that article was one of my favourites when I was a kid - I also just loved those pics. I wish I could say that, back in the day, I saw through all that Allen getting bitten and Buddy Miles filling in for him because he was such a big fan business etc, but I'm afraid I seem to recall that I was still at that stage where I believed everything I read in such august publications as Creem and Circus etc...
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Post by Buck on May 11, 2019 21:00:43 GMT
Obviously, that whole Lanier story was BS. Never believe what you read or hear in media without corroboration. About anything.
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Post by duckbarman on May 11, 2019 21:13:55 GMT
Never believe what you read or hear in media without corroboration. About anything. Well, in my defence, I was only 14 at that time... I didn't become the jaded cynic that I am today until I was at least 15!!
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Post by ericoyster on May 12, 2019 22:27:36 GMT
Love this stuff!
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