this week can officially fuck off already

this afternoon (as it shades into this evening and the light fails) horsemouth goes to play guitar. unlike his usual gig - walk in the door, play something influenced by african guitar players, leave - this time horsemouth will be attempting to do something more in the line of the blue oyster cult, something 'creepy (but in a good way)'. assuming the weather holds he will try and take the resonator and the 12 string, he may propose some piano even. his model here is very much astronomy. 

yesterday afternoon he went round minty's to move some boxes. he's got some more of minty's comics and greetings cards, a clark.ashton smith book the dark eidolon and other fantasies. he was a close friend of h.p.lovecraft's and some books he's promised to distribute round the book boxes.  

more death this week. nik turner, dan mcCafferty,  and now keith levene. (as someone remarked, this week can officially fuck off already). 

horsemouth  liked PIL a lot (better than the sex pistols any road). he thought public image was genius, he liked death disco, careering and poptones. there will be people about who knew keith levene from hackney. a lot of it was about lydon's voice and wobble's bass but those guitar parts were crafty and arguably influential on what you would hear the banshees and U2 doing (and all the bands cloned off them).

someone has posted the original live take of high rise (the album track on PXR5 was re-recorded ontop of it) - as a result you can hear what's not there yet - where adrian shaw really got into the bass (very under-rated player) and how bob calvert worked up the lyrics. there's a similar moment in the sonic assassins' early version  of free fall.  (you can hear that it is in  fact lifted of stratos).

like horsemouth said he's off to try to play something creepy and atmospheric later (wish him luck). later still the weekly phonecall from his mum. monday horsemouth needs to have a serious think.