Keith and I had the following exchange earlier:

Julian Cope claims that "Blackdance" by Klaus Schutze was his seduction album. I bought it, just out of curiosity, and it never fails to send me to sleep. It's pretty good though - wurp-wurp-wurp - that kind of thing.

That's strange you should say that Peter, as I was in Virgin yesterday on my day off work, and was hearing a bit of Julian "Copey" Cope's new record, then I kind of thought, hey, there's some bloke that looks dead like Julian Cope, and then started thinking "Why is there a queue behind this bloke", so it turns out it is actually Julian Cope, wackily dressed up as Swampy or something.

I was thinking the other day also about how you could better describe the great Moog synthesizer, and I hit upon the idea of mentioning great Moog songs, and came down to my two favourite Moog solos, which come from Ike and Tina Turner's "Nutbush city limits" and Heatwave's "Boogie nights", both totally great Moog solos, indeed the former record, so I'm told by my mum and dad was the first record I ever danced too - so

I believe The Archdrood is on a book promoting tour, with "talks" in Waterstones and so forth. I wouldn't mind going, I bet that book's a good laugh as well as possibly instructional. There's loads of prehistoric cromlechs and dolmens and whathaveyous round here as well, all conveniently situated at the top of mountains. I've been to one, but it just looked like fossilised elephant dung in a little circle. Still powerfully evocative of a bygone age though. While we're on the subject of books, I apologise if I have been inadvertently sending people on a wild duke chase for Dung and Goulash - I thought it was out already, that was the impression I got from the Dukegob website (he's definitely not subscribed, is he?) there you go, as

this track came out in 1973 it turns out I'm so cool, I was into Moog solos from almost before I was born!

I wouldn't know a Moog solo if it bit me to be honest, unless the record has the word "Moog" in the title. I believe Stevie Wonder used them, so I'm nominating the instrumental bit with playlet from Living For The City, a song also covered by Ike and Tina. Popol Vuh's epic Vuh also features a Moog, but tread carefully, I think they probably lived inside it during the making of the album. I believe Amon Duul II borrowed it at a later date, so you might be able to spot it on that tape, Keith. Adrian Evans wrote: Peter out Miller in out in.....that Starsky and Hutch is very good. I have a picture I did on the old windows paintbrush of Dougall from the old supernatural whirlygig fame that I want to send to Honeys Mummy page. Unfortunately it's in .BMP format and I don't know what to do to make it .jpg friendly. HELP !!! I have no idea what .jpg format is, my Starsky and Hutch portrait was done with PaintPot or whatever it's called, as included with Windows 95. I've also discovered that if you save your pictures in the Windows folder you can then use them as desktop backgrounds, instead of the usual shite. At the moment we've got a fine portrait of Stuart Mad Dog Murdoch reprimanding the rowdy crowd in London, done by my good lady wife. Jealous, eh? Perhaps it belongs on the ever-expanding Mummy page as well. Has all the shagging talk stopped yet? I do hope so, it puts me off my food a bit. I'm listening to Stevie Wonder now, it's great. If that's not a Moog it bloody well ought to be. I'M GOING NOW BYE!!! Peter +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+