Yes, the early days of the internet really (not counting old 80s BBS modem systems etc.)... I loved those early digest groups like Paperlate, Notes From The Edge, The National Midnight Star, Freaks... what was the Gentle Giant one again? Kevin Gilbert was on there... anyway, like I mentioned earlier,
Hybris was sent to me in 1993 as part of a
tape trade from someone in California if memory serves. We used to do a lot of live boot tape trading etc... looooonnng before some of those shows were cleaned up ('remastered') and easily obtained via assorted download methods. The idea of transferring that amount of data back then was practically unheard of. Besides, what if someone needed to use the phone?
I'm pretty sure Greg Walker was selling his music via a catalogue in those days, I can't quite remember. But I did order
Hybris as soon as I could. It was only about a year later that
Epilog came out and then the live album (along with boot cassettes of them on their U.S. tour, where they often played "The Musical Box" with a wildly out-of-tune mellotron). And then - silence - for about eighteen years until wonderful album #3.
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