Cupids_bow Posted March 30, 2024 Posted March 30, 2024 On 29/03/2024 at 9:00 PM, JorgeGVB said: Not sure if I will make it tonight. It is our 38th anniversary, so we're hoping to go out to dinner tonight. However, she was feeling a bit under the weather this afternoon. Since the stroke she tires out after a couple hours of any kind of activity and sleeps a lot, so there is a good chance she will be sleeping by the time FNL starts. The excess sleeping from what we have been told is the brain repairing itself after the stroke. The stroke recovery time is about 6-12 months, so it may be like this for awhile. Overall, she is doing really well all considered. Expand Happy Anniversary Jorge! May your wife have a complete recovery. Thanks for the update. 5 1
etcarroll Posted March 30, 2024 Posted March 30, 2024 US cover - "Similar to the writing process of their previous album, Andy Latimer and Pete Bardens retired to the country side to compose and put words to Moonmadness, and this is where the album name came about. Latimer: “Pete and I, we camped out in this farm near Dorking and that was kind of what instigated the title in a way because Pete and I were both convinced that the house we were living in was haunted. Pete especially tuned into the spirit of things. His father wrote lots of books on the occult and spirits, so he talked about it, and we were saying one night ‘it gets kind of mad when there is a full moon’. And I sort of, just to be funny said ‘we would get some sort of moonmadness’. It kind of stuck.”" 8
etcarroll Posted March 30, 2024 Posted March 30, 2024 The opening track kicks the moon theme off with the title Aristillus - a crater on the moon. 6
Cupids_bow Posted March 30, 2024 Posted March 30, 2024 First listen for me. Camel albums are hard to come by in the wild. 6
etcarroll Posted March 30, 2024 Posted March 30, 2024 The next track on the album, Song Within a Song, has everything that Camel excelled at: great melodies, interesting time signatures, a melancholic verse that segues into an energetic theme 7
wownflutter Posted March 30, 2024 Author Posted March 30, 2024 I need to find more of their albums. Love the two I have. 6
etcarroll Posted March 30, 2024 Posted March 30, 2024 (edited) On 30/03/2024 at 2:02 AM, Cupids_bow said: First listen for me. Camel albums are hard to come by in the wild. Expand You're gonna hate this Arnie, but I walked into MadPlatter Records on the UC Riverside campus in 2015 and picked up 5 titles someone had just sold them., including tonight's play. Also Bill gave me 1 and I found 1 at Vintage Vinyl in St Lou. Just dumb luck. Edited March 30, 2024 by etcarroll 7 1
etcarroll Posted March 30, 2024 Posted March 30, 2024 "The next track, Chord Change was awarded to Pete Bardens: “Pete was very changeable. Part of his character was he changed moods very quickly, very humorous chap but he also had dramas too. So we wrote Chord Change for him. It is kind of funny because Pete and I wrote that together.” It is the most complex song on the album, indeed a schizophrenic instrumental that takes some skill to pull off." 4
RapidFire Posted March 30, 2024 Posted March 30, 2024 On 30/03/2024 at 2:08 AM, etcarroll said: You're gonna hate this Arnie, but I walked into MadPlatter Records on the UC Riverside campus in 2015 and picked up 5 titles someone had just sold them., including tonight's play. Also Bill gave me 1 and I found 1 at Vintage Vinyl in St Lou. Just dumb luck. Expand Right place, right time. 5
Cupids_bow Posted March 30, 2024 Posted March 30, 2024 On 30/03/2024 at 2:08 AM, etcarroll said: You're gonna hate this Arnie, but I walked into MadPlatter Records on the UC Riverside campus in 2015 and picked up 5 titles someone had just sold them., including tonight's play. Also Bill gave me 1 and I found 1 at Vintage Vinyl in St Lou. Just dumb luck. Expand Dang! That is fantastic luck. 6
wownflutter Posted March 30, 2024 Author Posted March 30, 2024 I think Greg from Minnesota found this one for me. My other is a recent reissue. 6
Cupids_bow Posted March 30, 2024 Posted March 30, 2024 On 30/03/2024 at 2:11 AM, wownflutter said: I think Greg from Minnesota found this one for me. My other is a recent reissue. Expand Good ole' Greg. 5
etcarroll Posted March 30, 2024 Posted March 30, 2024 The last track on side one of the LP, Spirit of the Water, is also the first to be recorded for the album, and one of its best melodies. 5
wownflutter Posted March 30, 2024 Author Posted March 30, 2024 I always thought that was a dog on the US cover. Now I realize that it's a camel. Duhhh 2 4
etcarroll Posted March 30, 2024 Posted March 30, 2024 And we come to side two of the LP and a song that was created for Doug Ferguson’s character: “He was extremely forthright and always getting into crazy escapades”, hence the song Another Night. It is the rockiest song on the album and the only track remotely resembling a radio-friendly song. It became the album’s only single, but with a long instrumental passage and a B-side being the 9-minute instrumental Lunar Sea it went nowhere and like their previous singles, did not make Camel a household name. 5
etcarroll Posted March 30, 2024 Posted March 30, 2024 (edited) On 30/03/2024 at 2:17 AM, wownflutter said: I always thought that was a dog on the US cover. Now I realize that it's a camel. Duhhh Expand Oh no, you didn't?!? The cover drawing was created by John Field, who the same year also made the sleeve design to Michael Chapman’s Savage Amusement!, on which Andy Latimer contributes guitar parts. The Camel logo was created by David Anstey, who also made the wonderful illustrations for Mellow Candle’s Swaddling Songs, Caravan’s Waterloo Lily and most notably the iconic drawing for Days of Future Past by the Moody Blues. Janus, the American distributor, butchered the cover for US release with a camel - not a dog - in a spacesuit. Edited March 30, 2024 by etcarroll 4
Mur Posted March 30, 2024 Posted March 30, 2024 On 30/03/2024 at 1:19 AM, etcarroll said: Just eat one side of dinner then get back here. Expand I did take home half of the Pasta, kind of odd how you called it! 2 2
Cupids_bow Posted March 30, 2024 Posted March 30, 2024 On 30/03/2024 at 2:17 AM, wownflutter said: I always thought that was a dog on the US cover. Now I realize that it's a camel. Duhhh Expand Pass the doob pls. 2 3
etcarroll Posted March 30, 2024 Posted March 30, 2024 On 30/03/2024 at 2:22 AM, Mur said: I did take home half of the Pasta, kind of odd how you called it! Expand Because I'm effin brilliant! 3 1
Mur Posted March 30, 2024 Posted March 30, 2024 On 30/03/2024 at 2:05 AM, wownflutter said: I need to find more of their albums. Love the two I have. Expand Same here, I thought I had this one but it was Snow Goose 3
etcarroll Posted March 30, 2024 Posted March 30, 2024 Next up we have Air Born, the Andy Latimer-themed song: “Airborn was written about me because they saw me as very English. When I sat down and I wrote the intro to Airborn I had to discard all this American influence I had always through my youth.” The song opens with a trademark pastoral piano and flute that made so many Camel songs cherished by their fans. 5
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