Re: (TV) Echo

[eric gregory <crackcity_2000@yahoo.com>]

minor point: "just like sugar" is the bunnymen, not
mcculloch solo
& "kingdom come" is a beautiful song (as is the rest
of "ocean rain", probably the bunnymen's high
point)....
i haven't heard the new live in liverpool disc (some
b-men fanatics have recommended it), but i'll likely
avoid it cos mac has lost his voice, forever & anon
from what i can hear (the liners to the "crystal days"
box set attribute his voice deterioration to the
cocaine blues, but i believe there's been some soul
deterioration as well, which can count for alot more).
sergeant is always worth a listen & even tho he's been
playing the same 3 or 4 variations on one guitar lick,
it's a fucking great one.
anyhow, point here is that the bunnymen up to the best
of (say, 85 or thereabouts...basically up until pete
defreitas split the band) were a major fuggin band.
i wouldn't hesitate to say that "crocodiles" & "ocean
rain" & choice cuts off the other recs stand up to (&
are superior to) alotta verlaine solo...
dive in, leo....

--- "Casey, Leo J" <CaseyL@VOLPE.DOT.GOV> wrote:
> This list has mentioned the group Echo and the
> Bunnymen a few times over the last 
> couple of years, and Verlaine in an interview once
> said that he could hear Television's 
> influence in the Will Seargent's guitar playing on
> Bunnymen's first couple of records.
> 
> In my car on way to work this morning, I heard a
> song by Echo and the Bunnymen 
> that the college radio DJ said was from their new[?]
> cd, "Live in Liverpool".  The song's 
> guitar was mixed way down, but the vocals were very
> upfront/prominent. It contained 
> the refrain "kingdom come".  
> 
> Not very impressed (is the rest of cd any
> good?)---in fact, to purge the memory of the 
> ponderous lyrics and pedestrian guitar I immediately
> blasted Flash Lightning.
> 
> "When I heard your name, I looked into my cup;
> Lo, and behold, the seven seas came up.
> When I hear your voice, the arrow flies;
> The street turns silver, and the fools get wise."
> 	Leo
> NP: "Remains" - The Only Ones;  "Blues Jam in
> Chicago" Vol. I, Peter Green/D. Kirwan/Otis Spann; 
>  "Sunny Side of Heaven", Danny Kirwan/Fleetwood;
> "Future Games", Bob Welch/Fleetwood;
> *Guilty Pleasure:  Ian McCulloch's "Just Like Sugar"
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