Jarkko writ: "Sitar for me is an instrument played by: a) these men with long beards who talk with a funny accent in Hollywood movies b) people who are stuck to the crappy LSD-Beatles years." Hmmm...I know I may have started a thread awhile back about Brian Wilson vs. the Beatles but even I didn't have the balls to say that. Considering the Beatles were given LSD by their dentist in '64, you're saying everything from Help to Let It Be is crappy? Wow...thats about all I can say because I am simply stupefied... Ailsa made me feel alot less lonely when she said: "I don't really know if I like this idea. Say it's a 12 track album - that's half the songs that aren't by Stuart. Which is not good if you're a big Struan fan like me." I couldn't agree more. Maybe it means they came up with an idea to start the song, a chord pattern perhaps, and then Stuart took the ball and ran with it. I really hope so, because even though I think TBWTAS is my fave album of all-time I say that meaning only the Struan songs and Is It Wicked... Seymour Stein is nice and all but the other two non-Struan tracks are just pish and then some. I keep thinking that if maybe they had included 11 of Struan's tracks and Isobel's take then the record would have been alot better. I mean, especially Stuart D's tracks, which are very lovely by themself but when placed next to anything Struan even breathed upon they shrivel up and die. Paper Boat is quite nice. Maybe this is just an extension of Stuart trying to defuse the spotlight everyone seems to want to shine on him. Maybe if he doesn't include enough Isobel tracks she holds out on him...who knows? This brings to mind something else I've been thinking about for awhile. I know B&S are a band and not a cult of personality surrounding Stuart, but let's be honest: the man's voice is the reason most of us (myself included) come back everyday to hear the same album for the 400 millionth time. It never gets old. It really is their trump card and to totally throw that away for half of the album seems a bit arbitrary to me. I think everyone one of them are the best players at their instruments that I've heard in ages and the way they play together just totally befuddles me in its perfection and heart, but this would be like Wee Chris telling Stevie that he wants to play lead on a track or Isobel taking over the keys: sure its fun but is it really the best they can do? I play drums and when my band fools around at practice I noodle around on whatever instrument is lying nearby but I know if we did that for an entire song it would just lose that certain something. I don't know...maybe I'm expecting too much. Me and Todd H. of the Sinister list are getting together at University of Maryland on Oct 15th for Midnight Madness, which is the first practice of the men's basketball team. If anyone fancies meeting us and taking part in a drunken, stoned mini-Sinister meet they are more than welcome. Come prepared to scream at collegiate men with growth abnormalities... Umm...ok...that was alot longer than I had planned Later Steve C. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+