The thing is, I know how good LSD would have been. The few intense weeks me and Tim had working on it were wonderful. It would have been a very different album again.
The thing is, I know how good LSD would have been. The few intense weeks me and Tim had working on it were wonderful. It would have been a very different album again.
Yeah - totally. It's got it's own identity and sound that sets it apart from the rest of the catalog. Of course, the same could be said for all of the Cardiacs records.
Kavus' post makes me think that Cardiacs are one of rock's great 'what ifs'. For all the brilliance we got, I think Tim was on his way toward inventing his own unique genre with the latter period works and it it's a crying shame we may never know where he was headed.
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I think Cardiacs always was an own unique genre, pretty much right from the beginning in 1977. The obvious identity did not sound like anything else at the moment.
It is frustrating to hear that there is something brilliant lying on the shelves that we might never get to hear. Most likely not even half as frustrating as it must be for Kavus, who put his heart and soul into it.
Never say never.
While Tim's improvement is gradual, for instance I really don't think he'll ever sing again, it is an improvement.
We all look forward to a time when his health is at a point that he could perhaps orchestrate the completion of this album.
It's the thought of completing the many half-started projects (of which there are loads, believe me!) that is spurring him on to get better.
The first of which would probably be finishing the editing of the rehearsal footage which was about 80% done at the time of his collapse.
Oh I'm not saying they had no identity, don't get me wrong. The early stuff, you could hear the punk, you could hear the prog, you could hear the new wave, the gentle giant and Zappa influences, but Tim's melodies have always been his own. Not to mention Drakes contributions which, judging by the Sea Nymphs album, were enormous. I'm merely saying the later works were even more idiosyncratic. Dig me?
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“Remember, if it doesn't say "Cuneiform," it's not prog!” - THE Jed Levin
Any time any one speaks to me about any musical project, the one absolute given is "it will not make big money". [tip of the hat to HK]
"Death to false 'support the scene' prog!"
please add 'imo' wherever you like, to avoid offending those easily offended.
Yeah, all that stuff hanging in the balance: LSD, Garage rehearsals, Astoria dvd, Sea Nymphs second album... was there anything else?
LSD is obviously sans vocals, but was the music fully recorded? It was due Oct/Nov 08 which always struck me as a bit optimistic.
The rate we were working, it was a real possibility.
That would be an awesome thing to hear that material.
Oh yeah - a real evolution on Guns - maybe a revolution?
Tunes like "Rain and Wind is Cold", "Jitterbug" etc were pointing in a such a different and unique direction. In my mind I can "see" how different LSD was going to be once again. Musical geniuses like Tim have minds that can create and invent without any limitations or boundaries, and also without any need to rehash old ideas.
You can hear ideas that are on Guns on STG, but they are taken to the next step. How can you not love that?
And on an everyday listening level, I forget, until I hear it again, how much I love Loosefish Scapegrace, to bits...
I don't know whether it'd have been on LSD or not, but that semi rockabilly guitar bridge bit in the middle of Gen is just so perfect!
What I loved most about the Ditzy Scene single was the overall "lively" sound of it, BIG drums sounding really big, probably recorded in a big noisy room, live... Always thought the new stuff was going to be something well thought-out by all band members, working together bouncing ideas.... Surely the sound and the production would have been something like nothing they did before... Am I too wrong??
Watched the Mare's Nest vid again last night, and was just exhausted and blissed out by the end.
Hey, can anyone tell me what the title of "R.E.S." means? Friggin' genius, that song is....
Sound familiar?
^ How did I never put that together??!!
Wow! Cheers.
Ah -ha! Thanks!
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