tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815215641735446886.post6748489687765419293..comments2024-01-26T07:11:45.193-05:00Comments on Linear Tracking Lives!: ABCs of My Vinyl Collection (Letter C, Part 20)Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04321051045499549249noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815215641735446886.post-10255397372075386882016-09-12T14:44:43.800-04:002016-09-12T14:44:43.800-04:00Now that's a smile, Adam. I'm sure it wasn...Now that's a smile, Adam. I'm sure it wasn't at the time.<br /><br />As always, than you Echorich.<br /><br />Robster, He's the man, and we are all lucky he reads our blogs!Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04321051045499549249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815215641735446886.post-75599436155455072412016-09-11T04:29:33.902-04:002016-09-11T04:29:33.902-04:00I am friend of friends with Steve, Comsat Angels g...I am friend of friends with Steve, Comsat Angels guitarist. Playing records at my friends 45th birthday party, as Steve walked in I out Independence day on. He turned around and walked out. Oops.Swiss Adamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13119322217065850020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815215641735446886.post-36811266429116623692016-09-10T10:50:55.833-04:002016-09-10T10:50:55.833-04:00Echorich - loudmouth and opinionated New Yorker is...Echorich - loudmouth and opinionated New Yorker is probably more like it. In NYC, I'm lucky if I can attain 'Prince Among Many' status and on Sunday, I will prove that point for four days of voice destroying, nonstop fun with friends and family.<br /><br />Now as for Comsat Angels, I doubt that any other band that I discovered because their debut album cover really caught my eye, other than Echo And The Bunnymen's Crocodiles, blossomed into a career long devotion. The Comsat's tried to really stick to a sound that they perfected from the start, but the music business wouldn't play along and they were pulled and stretched in many different directions after leaving Polydor. The Zomba/Jive albums, Land and 7 Days Weekend have the bones of Comsat Angel's sound, but it's over produced by Mike Howlett, Chris Tsangarides and oddly James Mtume who guided Stephanie Mills and Phyllis Hyman's careers.<br />They are a perfect example of a band with great intentions being boxed and packaged out of their comfort zone. The fact that they managed to find their way back with Chasing Shadows in 87, thanks to having a fan in Robert Palmer, and then again in mid 90s with My MInds Eye and The Glamour, showed that they hadn't lost their focus totally and found their voice again.<br />One final note, both Comsat Angels and The Bunnymen have one last thing in common for me - an album I can't get my head around. For the Bunnymen it's the Mac-less Reverberation and for Comsat Angels it's Fire On The Moon which even the band stepped away from and released as Dream Command - it didn't help that Island were so afraid of releasing more music as Comsat Angels because of a potential lawsuit from Communication Satellite Corporation (Com-Sat Corp), but this was an album of very average FM Radio Rock that really doesn't have much to do with the Comsat's sound.<br />Echorichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02853063796135973187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815215641735446886.post-37837037050520997432016-09-10T06:35:24.592-04:002016-09-10T06:35:24.592-04:00"Echorich - king of the comments." Ha! I..."Echorich - king of the comments." Ha! I doubt you'll find many who will argue with that statement!TheRobsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18277941961790844321noreply@blogger.com