From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V5 #29 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Saturday, January 29 2005 Volume 05 : Number 029 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] Span ["Bradley Skaught" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:29:47 -0800 From: "Bradley Skaught" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Span God bless you, Tim, for being a Span fan! > I love this album. In fact, it's probably my favorite of > theirs. Oddly, > it came in dead last of all their skidillion albums in a > fan poll I > saw. You've got ot be kidding! I've listened to maybe half a dozen other Span albums and nothing comes close to this, really! > In general, the tones > are stunning (one thing I still prefer analog for is guitar > amps) and > very well matched. Anyone who loves the guitar sounds and interplay of Kimberly Rew and Robyn Hitchcock would do well to check this out--they used to play bits of it live back in the original Soft Boys days, and it's an obvious launching point for their playing. Please To See The King has some of the best, and, yes, best sounding, guitar playing i've heard! > My absolute favorite thing is the electric dulcimer > intro to "Lark In > The Morning," though, and that's definitely Hart. So > presumably the > guitar in the other channel is Carthy--that might be a > good place to > start figuring out which stuff is his. Good to know... "Lovely on the Water" is mind blowing--that middle bit where they crank up the tremelo on the guitars launches it into some kind of Tom Verlaine dream dimension. > You will certainly need TEN MAN MOP as well. > Same lineup, and only a > hair less brilliant. If you still want more, I recommend: Some of the others mentioned i've heard and haven't liked as much. Please To See The King has a very delicate balance of performance, sound, arrangement, etc. that makes it special--the others i've heard lack at least one of those elements. I will check them out again, though, on your recommendation. > including some really bad saxophone playing from > David Bowie, > imitating Acker Bilk) Bowie is the greatest artist in pop music history, but he's a lousy, lousy sax player. Don't tell Scott Miller that, though, because Scott will tell you that Bowie is his favorite sax player. I don't know why. > This is one band that could really use a good best-of, >but the ones > I've seen definitely have a different idea of their best >from mine. I've noticed this. The sound on the Shenachie CDs is actually pretty good, though. Not a label I associate with careful mastering. > Maddy Prior has done some great and some not-so->great solo stuff--I > really like WOMAN IN THE WINGS, but would >have to admit if pressed that > it's a bit straight. HANG UP SORROW AND >CARE lives up to its title. The > albums she and Tim Hart did before Span are also >worth checking out, > especially SUMMER SOLSTICE. These are all things I will look for! whew! Bradley (also Span fan) stray songs: www.davidbowie.com/users/bjskaught/index.html - -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.1 - Release Date: 1/27/2005 ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V5 #29 ******************************