Re: (idm) Re: Greg Earle knows nothing about Can

From Dunc Chaplin
Sent Thu, Oct 1st 1998, 18:00

>>P.S. Be glad you missed on the Half-Can Half-Bisquit show with Damo Suzuki
>>     and Michael Karoli.  Ugh.  When you can't tell the new songs apart from
>>     the Can tunes (they did "Jupiter" from the first Can album,
according to
>>     Michael Balch), you know something's seriously wrong.  Sherman, set the
>>     Wayback for 1973 ... bleaugh.

i'm wondering, did their improv set just not "connect", or did it lack
vitality, or was it really sloppy, or something else?  i missed them when
they came around to NYC last weekend, and i've got major regrets right now.
 so i'm curious as to whether these guys are just not in "shape" or is this
simply a matter of taste?  oh, and how was James Plotkin?  

btw, it really is a sad day in kraut-land when expressions like "old fart
Can guys" start getting thrown around.  :)

read the Bible my friends, learn from Jonah and his repentance in the belly
of the whale...

Bt.