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Post by eastmark on Jan 18, 2021 19:18:28 GMT
DFTR lead me to buy the tape from the Sunday paper Columbia record "8 for a penny" deal.
I probably didnt buy all the full priced tapes to satisfy the contract on that deal...but I did buy every other BOC I could get at the record store after hearing AOF. 🤣
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Post by eastmark on Jan 18, 2021 19:22:29 GMT
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Post by duckbarman on Jan 18, 2021 20:40:59 GMT
I was hooked hearing "Beautiful as a Foot" sometime late '73 as far as I can recall, after hearing it in a local record shop.... if I'm honest, it was the intro drum segue that sealed the deal...
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Post by The Ocean on Jan 18, 2021 20:56:17 GMT
WPLJ played Astronomy in '74 and I bought the album.A friend had the first two records so I borrowed those and that's all she wrote.
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Post by sirrastus on Jan 18, 2021 22:51:48 GMT
The original:
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Post by Buck on Jan 19, 2021 3:28:27 GMT
I was hooked hearing "Beautiful as a Foot" sometime late '73 as far as I can recall, after hearing it in a local record shop.... if I'm honest, it was the intro drum segue that sealed the deal... Wow, that's unusual. Here's a note Ralph, that drum fill into "Foot" never occurred in nature. It was an edit Sandy Pearlman did when he was sequencing the record at the mastering session. Not sure if they had to clip what was intended for time, or if it was an artistic decision. Anyway, the band thought the edit sounded really awkward, because we knew the way it was supposed to sound between those songs and the timing is odd. We never did it the fill live, of course, until Jules learned it for the first album show. Jules makes it sound like we meant to do that.
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Post by Alessandro on Jan 19, 2021 8:32:33 GMT
it all started the year before Fire came out, a "literati" Italian music journalist deemed BOC the only hard rock band with brains -Patti Smith connections and the like- so my buddy Pier Paolo first bought T&M and Treaties then SEE while I bought FOUO as soon as it was released few months later, and that was the start. in the next few years he bought Spectres and OYFOOYK, while I bought Agents, the First, then Cultosaurus and ETL and by the summer of '82 we were hooked forever. blame it on the book
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Post by The Ocean on Jan 19, 2021 14:51:01 GMT
I was hooked hearing "Beautiful as a Foot" sometime late '73 as far as I can recall, after hearing it in a local record shop.... if I'm honest, it was the intro drum segue that sealed the deal... Wow, that's unusual. Here's a note Ralph, that drum fill into "Foot" never occurred in nature. It was an edit Sandy Pearlman did when he was sequencing the record at the mastering session. Not sure if they had to clip what was intended for time, or if it was an artistic decision. Anyway, the band thought the edit sounded really awkward, because we knew the way it was supposed to sound between those songs and the timing is odd. We never did it the fill live, of course, until Jules learned it for the first album show. Jules makes it sound like we meant to do that. Were there any other instances of Sandy putting something in the final record that y'all didn't know about until afterwards? I now wonder if the track transitions in Secret Treaties were planned that way by the band or if Sandy snhck them in. They work on Secret Treaties to me, regardless, though as you say on the debut that transition is awkward. I always thought it must have been from a different take where the mics weren't set up the same.
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Post by frog on Jan 19, 2021 20:11:13 GMT
I was hooked hearing "Beautiful as a Foot" sometime late '73 as far as I can recall, after hearing it in a local record shop.... if I'm honest, it was the intro drum segue that sealed the deal... Wow, that's unusual. Here's a note Ralph, that drum fill into "Foot" never occurred in nature. It was an edit Sandy Pearlman did when he was sequencing the record at the mastering session. Not sure if they had to clip what was intended for time, or if it was an artistic decision. Anyway, the band thought the edit sounded really awkward, because we knew the way it was supposed to sound between those songs and the timing is odd. We never did it the fill live, of course, until Jules learned it for the first album show. Jules makes it sound like we meant to do that.
Did you play Foot a lot during the 1971-72 shows ?
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Post by sirrastus on Jan 19, 2021 20:22:01 GMT
Weren't the Alessi Brothers in the studio when you recorded Foot and they gave Eric a round of applause after he finished?
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Post by phillyculter on Jan 29, 2021 19:23:05 GMT
I was hooked hearing "Beautiful as a Foot" sometime late '73 as far as I can recall, after hearing it in a local record shop.... if I'm honest, it was the intro drum segue that sealed the deal... Wow, that's unusual. Here's a note Ralph, that drum fill into "Foot" never occurred in nature. It was an edit Sandy Pearlman did when he was sequencing the record at the mastering session. Not sure if they had to clip what was intended for time, or if it was an artistic decision. Anyway, the band thought the edit sounded really awkward, because we knew the way it was supposed to sound between those songs and the timing is odd. We never did it the fill live, of course, until Jules learned it for the first album show. Jules makes it sound like we meant to do that.
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Post by phillyculter on Jan 29, 2021 19:30:46 GMT
That recording of the first album live is very, very great. IMO Jules is the best drummer BOC ever had. I've seen them all and some were better than others, but Jules is the best with apologies to Albert, who is a great drummer in his own right and a great songwriter/artist. This version of BOC is one tight band. Evidenced by first alnum live album, Rock of ages album and of course Symbol. Thank you for hours and hours of listening pleasure this year!
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Post by beanguy on Jan 30, 2021 6:13:43 GMT
I was in college(Central Ct State-University now), in 1975-76. A guy in my dorm made me listen to one of the first three albums. I didn't really get it, having just moved on from Chicago to Aerosmith. I first heard Agents while on a date in my Gf's car, which I am guessing she owned due to DFTR. After seeing BOC once, I bought the back catalogue, and have been a fan ever since.
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Post by frog on Jan 30, 2021 17:17:02 GMT
That recording of the first album live is very, very great. IMO Jules is the best drummer BOC ever had. I've seen them all and some were better than others, but Jules is the best with apologies to Albert, who is a great drummer in his own right and a great songwriter/artist. This version of BOC is one tight band. Evidenced by first alnum live album, Rock of ages album and of course Symbol. Thank you for hours and hours of listening pleasure this year! wow, when and where was your first show ?
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Post by tom on Jan 30, 2021 22:35:23 GMT
That recording of the first album live is very, very great. IMO Jules is the best drummer BOC ever had. I've seen them all and some were better than others, but Jules is the best with apologies to Albert, who is a great drummer in his own right and a great songwriter/artist. This version of BOC is one tight band. Evidenced by first alnum live album, Rock of ages album and of course Symbol. Thank you for hours and hours of listening pleasure this year! I have grown to respect and like Jules since he first joined BOC but I don't agree he is the best drummer BOC has had. Albert is way out ahead and Jules isn't even second on the list
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