Sinister: Like a cloud his fingers explode...

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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.
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