Billy and the Boingers could really tear it up.
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Opus has traveled with me through two cross Atlantic moves, and at least five moves in the USA.
Tuba solo!
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“She died the way Black women die when they go to hospital,” adds James. “Through neglect. Look at the data. How many Black women die in surgery or during childbirth, compared with other races? It’s an ugly truth.”
Yep. Figures
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Right? I’m glad at least that this documentary is coming out…
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Even though I try to separate art from the artist, I’ve had a really hard time listening to anything Bassnectar since the original accusations came out. This case may be settled, but there’s been too many other credible stories painting Lorin Ashton as a manipulative and abusive scumbag that I don’t see myself listening to any of his stuff in the future.
Here’s a long read breaking a lot of this down:
And even if he didn’t actually sexually abuse anybody, his treatment of other musicians like Mimi Page is unconscionable.
If you like Bassnectar’s sound you can always listen to Ravenscoon or Mersiv. They have a similar musical aesthetic but without the associated ickiness of the artist.
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My Opus is still with me as well! Also managed not to lose this:
They really just needed better management.
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Wizards and dragons and Roger Dean album covers, distant memories all a bit nonsense and swiftly “uncool”.
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I was a fan (I had copies of Wizards and Demons, Magicians Birthday and Look at Yourself) for a few years, and yeah it’s not something I go back to much. Yet when I do (like I am right now since you brought them up), I can definitely laugh at it, and even when I liked them I still thought they were a bit of a low rent Deep Purple mk II. Yet… I can see why I liked them. They definitely had some talent, wrote a few good songs, and Byron had a great voice.
I’ve also been a little intrigued by the “uncool” idea (which I’m not picking on you using, it’s pretty obvious fact). Like, why is it that the whole Swords and Sorcery fantasy related world of Dragons and Elves and Wizards that conquered the world is now cool, but the music that also arose concurrently around that 70s interest never got rehabilitated the way Lord of the Rings and D&D did.
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Yes to all your points, I suppose it is a sharp edge between cool/uncool, I think it was because they were uncool that I had affection for them. But they definitely had some of the coolest album covers of the 70’s.
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Yes! Besides the Roger Dean stuff, the fact that the album cover for “Look at Yourself” was a reflective mirror cracked me up.
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I have no need for moonlight,
You’re wrong to trust in sunlight;
For I exist not just in storms,
But in life itself in so many forms
To leave you… cold.
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This includes some interesting history on experimental electronic music…
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Well naturally. Did someone say it was not good? It’s better than anything Paul McCartney contributed to that album.
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Child me listened to that track over and over in headphones. Pre drugs of any kind. I loved it when the Beatles got weird
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