Meanwhile... Pt. 1

[The Confessor]

Found two songs from childhood. Such a good singer, and so many memories. Spinning this 45 as a kid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbjGtFnzWvg

One of my best friend's has a 1975 Martin D-35 acoustic guitar that was once owned by Roger Whittaker. I've borrowed it from time to time and the guitar case it lives in still has a big red "Roger Whittaker On Tour" sticker on it. True story!

[Rob Allen]

Here's a blog for Silver/Bronze Age fans. I don't know how he got them, but someone is posting layout sketches by Gil Kane:

http://gilkanelostlayouts.wordpress.com/

Lots of familiar images there, but in first-draft form.

[Jezebel Bond]

Found two songs from childhood. Such a good singer, and so many memories. Spinning this 45 as a kid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbjGtFnzWvg

Thanks to youtube, I got reacquainted with 'The Voice' by The Moody Blues. I hadn't heard the single version in about twenty years.

And speaking about the Moodies...Nights In White Satin is a classic, but the first time I ever heard it was in TV's Wiseguy in the late 80s...I was still a little girl but liked the song...especially since Sonny Steelgrave committed the most impressive suicide a couple minutes later.

[The Confessor]

And speaking about the Moodies...Nights In White Satin is a classic, but the first time I ever heard it was in TV's Wiseguy in the late 80s...I was still a little girl but liked the song...especially since Sonny Steelgrave committed the most impressive suicide a couple minutes later.

It is a classic and in fact, the whole Days Of Future Passed album is worth owning. It's a classic slice of British psychedelia circa 1967 and also anticiaptes progressive rock.

[berk]

Thanks to youtube, I got reacquainted with 'The Voice' by The Moody Blues. I hadn't heard the single version in about twenty years.

And speaking about the Moodies...Nights In White Satin is a classic, but the first time I ever heard it was in TV's Wiseguy in the late 80s...I was still a little girl but liked the song...especially since Sonny Steelgrave committed the most impressive suicide a couple minutes later.

It is a classic and in fact, the whole Days Of Future Passed album is worth owning. It's a classic slice of British psychedelia circa 1967 and also anticiaptes progressive rock.

I am a huge Moodies fan. All their albums from Days of Future Passed up to and including Long Distance Voyager are must-listens in my book. I'd be hard-pressed to choose favourites - maybe Every Good Boy Deserves Favour or Seventh Sojourn - but they're all essential. The Hayward/Lodge solo album Blue Jays is a must for fans as well.

[The Confessor]

I am a huge Moodies fan. All their albums from Days of Future Passed up to and including Long Distance Voyager are must-listens in my book. I'd be hard-pressed to choose favourites - maybe Every Good Boy Deserves Favour or Seventh Sojourn - but they're all essential. The Hayward/Lodge solo album Blue Jays is a must for fans as well.

I only like a fairly narrow era of the Moodies' discography, basically centering around the Days Of Future Passed and In Search Of The Lost Chord albums, but also taking in non-album "psychedelic" singles of the period like "Love And Beauty". Prior to that it was all rather mediocre British beat music (although I enjoy Denny Lane's later stuff with Wings) and after that it all starts to get a bit too stadium rock and/or prog-rock for me. No doubting the band's talent though.

Actually, I'm such a fan of this short period of the Moodies career that I have two copies of Days Of Future Passed, one an original 1967 vinyl pressing featuring the original mix of the album, and the other a remastered CD, featuring the later remix. God, I'm such a music nerd!

[berk]

I only like a fairly narrow era of the Moodies' discography, basically centering around the Days Of Future Passed and In Search Of The Lost Chord albums, but also taking in non-album "psychedelic" singles of the period like "Love And Beauty". Prior to that it was all rather mediocre British beat music (although I enjoy Denny Lane's later stuff with Wings) and after that it all starts to get a bit too stadium rock and/or prog-rock for me. No doubting the band's talent though.

Actually, I'm such a fan of this short period of the Moodies career that I have two copies of Days Of Future Passed, one an original 1967 vinyl pressing featuring the original mix of the album, and the other a remastered CD, featuring the later remix. God, I'm such a music nerd!

Some of those appear on a compilation I'm very fond of, Prelude. Mostly singles and studio tracks that never made it onto albums - some awesome material on there.

Personally, I don't hear any change to a more commercial or crowd-friendly sound on the albums following In Search of the Lost Chord (what an irresistible title, BTW); I think the audiences just caught up with what they were doing. But then I'm a great booster of prog as well.

[The Confessor]

Personally, I don't hear any change to a more commercial or crowd-friendly sound on the albums following In Search of the Lost Chord (what an irresistible title, BTW); I think the audiences just caught up with what they were doing. But then I'm a great booster of prog as well.

Oh no, I didn't mean to suggest that they changed to a more commercial sound necessarily, just that they moved away from that Sgt. Pepper-esque, British psych sound. The albums following In Search Of The Lost Chord just have less psychedelic wisdom and exotic instrumentation on them. I mean, there's nothing like "Om" or "Legend Of A Mind" on the On The Threshold Of A Dream album for example.

Like a lot of '60s bands, as the decade came to a close, the Moodies moved back towards a more basic, guitar/bass/drums rock 'n' roll sound, while simultaneously taking on some prog-rock trappings (a genre they clearly pioneered). Personally, I just prefer their brief excursion into pop psychedelia circa 1967 and 1968 to what came before and after it.

[adam_warlock_2099]

One of my best friend's has a 1975 Martin D-35 acoustic guitar that was once owned by Roger Whittaker. I've borrowed it from time to time and the guitar case it lives in still has a big red "Roger Whittaker On Tour" sticker on it. True story!

So cool. Had he meet Roger Whittaker or had it purchased it somehow? It would be neat to meet such a talented singer.

[adam_warlock_2099]

The zoo here is having an ostrich egg omelet Saturday with benefits going to the zoo itself and other conservations. We're going to go with the kids. While I know my wife has no interest, I know I am going to eat me one. I've never had an ostrich egg. I've eaten ostrich, so I figured I might as well make it the full circle of life.

[The Confessor]

So cool. Had he meet Roger Whittaker or had it purchased it somehow? It would be neat to meet such a talented singer.

No, my friend didn't meet him, but he was friends with a guy who used to manage Roger Whittaker and it was via him that he was able to buy the guitar. It's a lovely sounding instrument, but then...it's a Martin!

[Rob Allen]

Another cool art link today - not comics, but mind-blowing illustrations by Harry Clarke done for a circa-1923 collection of Edgar Allan Poe stories.

http://50watts.com/#Harry-Clarke-Ill...ns-for-E-A-Poe - 24 black & white drawings
http://50watts.com/#Harry-Clarke-Poe-in-color - 8 color illustrations
http://50watts.com/filter/harry-clarke - index of Harry Clarke work at 50watts.com

[pakehafulla]

(not wanting to speak for dan, but just offering my own take on it...)

Straightforward and comprehensible, yes...but just not the real Marvel Universe. The whole Ultimates line is like one giant "What If..." as far as I'm concerned. I'm only interested in the proper 616 Marvel Universe, as created by Lee, Kirby, Ditko etc, way back in the early '60s. Except no substitutes!

Okay, so jumping in here boots and all having read no previous or future posts on this subject, but what is wrong with Marvel giving us the Ultimate Universe ? As fans of classic books we support an era/genre that exists because of Julius Swartz( god i hope I'm right with that name or its back to Comic-Books 101 for me ) and his creation of Earth 1 and 2, (by re-designing his characters for a newer generation).

Not trying to put those Ultimate books in the same league (heh heh) as the Earth 1 and 2 efforts, but I do think that some of them re-imagined their books quite well. Loved the first couple of Ultimates books, the first 50 or so of the UFF, and numerous others. But...never got the need to do the Spider-Man book and essentially tell the same stories again.

Anywho...I like dem, likes me some Earth 2, and in general most alternate earth stories(have done since that classic Trek episode).

[pakehafulla]

Here's a blog for Silver/Bronze Age fans. I don't know how he got them, but someone is posting layout sketches by Gil Kane:

http://gilkanelostlayouts.wordpress.com/

Lots of familiar images there, but in first-draft form.

Rob...thanks man. Those are fantastic. They very much remind me of the Frank Frazetta art books I have wth some of his sketches and doodle spread throughout. Frazetta showed more talent in a 2 minute doodle than most contemporary artists, and your link shows that Gil Kane was similarly talented. These are a perfect lesson in comic book art. Again thank you.

[dan bailey]

Okay, so jumping in here boots and all having read no previous or future posts on this subject, but what is wrong with Marvel giving us the Ultimate Universe ?

What's wrong with it is that I tend not to like it. I mean ... really. Surely it's understood that I'm speaking only for myself (though I see a couple of others happen to harbor a similar feelings). If attitudes & opinions all have to be rationally explained, we've just lost at least half the internet, & probably a good bit more than that.

Which might not be the worst thing in the world. Hmmm.

And here you showed such promise by being spot-on with regard to the 2004 Dawn of the Dead over in the horror movies thread ... *sigh* It's as if your Severin-hating former incarnation is peeking out from behind the mask.

As fans of classic books we support an era/genre that exists because of Julius Swartz( god i hope I'm right with that name or its back to Comic-Books 101 for me )

Ummm ... It's Schwartz, actually.

and his creation of Earth 1 and 2, (by re-designing his characters for a newer generation).

Not that it makes what he did any better or worse, of course, but the circumstances for the Silver Age reinventions were completely different. The original Flash, GL, Atom, Hawkman, etc. (or was that all of 'em? can't recall any other core characters off the top of my head, but I'm not exactly at my most alert right now, as per usual) had been gone for years in every way, shape & form, no? That certainly wasn't the case when Marvel launched the Ultimate versions of Spider-Man, the FF, X-Men, Nick Fury, Irving Forbush & whomever.