UK Fnordcooler 23: Immanentizing The Eschaton - When The Pyramid Meets The Eye!

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I have argued over a hairbrush, actually. But it wasn't about the hairbrush, per se, as much as the whole rivalry for years and years and all "argh, you nicked my hairbrush AGAIN, you are always stealing EVERYTHING OF MINE, all my songs, all my hard work, just like you NICKED MY BOYFRIEND WHEN I WAS 17!!! ARGH!!!! I HATE YOU!!!"

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's basically over control, money & exploitation of the band's back catalog & live recordings. The stupid thing is they could all make money of archive HW recordings if they did them properly a la King Crimson collector's club, but as often as not some dodgy label puts stuff out, they get the money, and the people who played on the record (incl Brock and Turner) get shit.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

I'm driving the slow way back, along the coast rd. Stopped for a breather in the sand dunes. Lovely

― Ed, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

Space Ritual is great, but the Watchfield & Stonehenge festival live tapes from '75/'76 are just.... beyond....man, they're awesome.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

They should really sort it out and put out a proper series of releases. I'd even get a Hawkwind passport if it let me collect them all.

This makes me want to listen to Space Ritual and I've no idea what happened to my copy, I think it was actually on cassette so lord knows where it went.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry - almost didn't see you in there! Hi Ed! Jealous of you in the sand dunes there. When come back bring CHEESE!!!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

So what about Turkish dirty dronerock boys from 1971 or so?

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dri200/i258/i25892krq3l.jpg

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

What on earth?

Great cover, though. It's just everything that's great about that era in music.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

I have a feeling you would like a lot of the music itself too.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

Hi 'Cooler. Everyone alright?

I'm off to Hackney to look at two more studios. At least one of them has to be good, right?

― G00blar, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

Your studio will find you, Gooblar. I know it.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I've been listening to the Slipstream now, and I'm sorry, it's just kinda boring. It's not even that it's "poppy" - it's just kind of generic sounding and not really there for me.

Weird, I thought the two albums would sound the other way around.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

This makes me want to listen to Space Ritual and I've no idea what happened to my copy, I think it was actually on cassette so lord knows where it went.

Not that you're dropping any hints or anything...

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not actually - I'm going to buy the fucker again.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

It might be on the way anyway

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

Re that HMV thread on ILM, where do you all buy your cd's/vinyl/Tapes/78's these days?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

HMV, mostly! Hah!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

No local indie shops then? or do you just hate them?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

And pick up Warrior on the Edge of Time while I'm at it. Which I still don't have.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

We've had this discussion before - my nearest indie shop is Rough Trade and it's just too bloody hard to find anything in there, it's so sectioned out by increasingly complex genres. I don't want to have to look through Psychedelic, 70s, Prog, and Spacerock to find Hawkwind - I just wanna go to the H section.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

Did I tell you I got "Space Ritual Vol 2 - Sundown", or whatever you call it, in a car boot sale for £2?

― Tom D., Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

no indie record stores south of the river???? whaaat?

actually none in Oxford now that Vinyl Frontier and Polar Bear have both closed. the record store is, it seems, brown bread.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

There are no record shops in Streatham, fullstop. This is probably a good thing. If I want to buy CDs, I have to make a trip from work. Closest are the HMV in Covent Garden and Rough Trade.

I suppose I could walk over to Soho during a lunchtime, but generally I can't be bothered.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

So that's why people always slag off Rough Trade. My friend wouldn't go in there when he lived in Essex. It scared him too much.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

There (used to be?) a really good second-hand LP shop, in a 'square' where the fire-station cafe is. It was a downstairsie, if I remember correctly, and I do.

― Mark G, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

I have an orgone accumulator.....

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

Do you?

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

I love what's being charged in this one:

http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/toolsforwellnesscom_1937_26804069

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

http://z.about.com/d/inventors/1/8/M/_/orgone.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

Got the job! It's still here at the same place so still with Beryl, but a new job that no-one has done before.

― Dr.C, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

Hurrah, congrats, Dr. C!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

Do you?

No. I don't even know what it is.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

yes, well done!

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

Thx! I'll have to do some bloody work soon though.

― Dr.C, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, Kerr, and go and read up on some Wilhelm Reich, it's really wonderfully ridiculous stuff.

A Pyramid Shaped Orgone Accumulator!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

They are these sort of metal boxes that people sit in, and they get warm - Reich claimed "through orgone energy!" (though Einstein debunked - through convection) - and hippies claim they have all sorts of healthful effects - though overuse can lead to priapism, as it's supposedly harnassing the sexual energy of the cosmos or something - orgone is derived from orgasm.

It's wacky wacky sci fi stuff - William S. Burroughs was really into it as well.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.thelastfourbooks.com/imageKV9.JPG
http://www.thelastfourbooks.com/image2IC.JPG

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.thelastfourbooks.com/johnnypyramid.jpg

You could make all the Shimura Curves have an hour in that before you next do a recording.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

Erm.... no.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

probably a better idea to put the recording device inside it.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

Or use the crystal to power your guitar

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

I bet M@rissa M@rchant records all her work in an orgone box. Nuff said.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

hahahaha

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

Moshe Daniel: author, Kabbalist, alchemist, naturopathic doctor, singer/songwriter: My Idea Of Hell.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

Is he on the next madonna album?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

I am going home early tody - except I'm not going home, I'm going down the pub for the Finn's leaving do.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

you having cheese and wine?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

Dunno if you're here or not Kate but check your email.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

Just been digesting the Magpie's nest email for this month, it's going to be good. We have blues and american folk from [Removed Illegal Link]. The frets player, I'm assuming, is related to David K.

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 06:33 (nineteen years ago)

Just been digesting the Magpie's nest email for this month, it's going to be good. We have blues and american folk from the groanbox boys and more north east folk nepotism with faustus. The frets player, I'm assuming, is related to David K.

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 06:38 (nineteen years ago)

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