I should have the final word on what’s being done by this weekend. Incidentally, an examination of the Winnipeg Free Press archive also serves to provide an interesting insight into the genesis of the line-up which eventually did end up playing this gig. Blue Oyster Cult is an aggressive, hard-working and thoroughly entertaining band which I expect to go a long, long way. I immediately went out the next day to purchase T&M, and very quickly returned to the record store (“Autumn Stone” great name for a record store/head shop!) to pick up the first album too. Tyranny & Mutation tour, October, 1973, warming up for Savoy Brown.
This was a former Collegienhaus it is one of the last baroque palaces in the Freiderichstadt neighbourhood. Next door to this there is The Libeskind Building which is a modern construction. The building itself zigzags and there’s angled walls and floors. There is an audio tour that you can listen to that tells you all sorts of information about the building and why it was like that. But with the kids in tow, they didn’t want to stop long enough for me to listen to it. Maybe one day I’ll take myself on the train to Berlin and do it again (As well as visiting my friend who now lives about an hour outside of Berlin).
Christ on a bike, reviewer Michael Nicholson is obviously a complete and utter pompous twunt… “But their audience doesn’t care about the words, they come to be bludgeoned by the music”, eh…? Well, at least BOC will be glad to know that “they have a few novel ideas, a few imaginative progressions and changes”, according to Michael… That’ll give them something to try and build on for the future so that, should Michael ever again have the misfortune to be forced to watch their tedious and repetitive “gimmickry” in future, he won’t be so offended…
Inside this warren of narrow passages and rooms lies a whole underground community of what would have been 500 people who all needed to work, eat, sleep, pee and plot the war. I saw no bathrooms and as many of them smoked (and at least one smoked a cigar) you can only imagine how fetid and obnoxious the air would have been in this windowless space. You may see a hygiene star rating displayed outside a restaurant. This is known as Scores on the Doors and will indicate how the restaurant fared in its last council-run food safety inspection. You can read the safety report by going to this site.
The flashy group presented their music in a hard, brash style that was a delight to see and hear. “T. Rex” was co-billed with “Cult” but didn’t appear, Mark Bolan, member, was said to have laryngitis. A young folksinger took their place and was promptly booed off stage by the raudy rock-crazed crowd. Another person saying they remember Hot Rails being played – she also said she remembered hearing ‘Diz-busters” but admitted to being in an erm… let’s describe it as an enhanced state of consciousness… When lead singer Eric Bloom announced that the recording tracks were rolling, and would be part of the band’s next album, I swear the tumultuous roar of approval that went up nearly blew the roof off the arena.
He’s all grown up now and living with his mate but he’ll still be part of our little family and hold a special place in our lives. After 2020 you’re expected to behave and not be a (majority) of a screw up (it had it’s highlights but there were a lot of low points too). I’m sure more than this happened in the month but Jaxon is begging me to play Lego Harry Potter with him while Rex naps so I think I have to go do that. This week has so many changes in it, it’s going to be intersting. So I sat about finding the pattern for my Stormy Open Back Jumper by Handknits and Hygge. I knew it was a test knit at the time, I also knew that “storm” appeared somewhere in the title.