Agree nice to know some of us are still here, have to put some Klaatu on this
weekend
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On Feb 17, 2018, at 4:05 PM, Berkshire Music Ventures
<berkshiremusic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Klaatu lives...
(Well, the Usenet does)
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On Feb 17, 2018, at 3:30 PM, tnshell40@xxxxxxxxx (Redacted sender
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Replying because I can.
Nice to know this is still around.
Alex
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On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 12:56 PM, Robert<francine.fgh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Glen
I had no idea that this list was still active. I have not seen any post in
the last couple of years until you chimed up. for a question like this, I
would ask Dee himself. I'm sure you can reach him via his web site.
Now that I have read your post, I am going to visit Master Bradley's Klaatu
web site.
On a side note, my wife and I were at a Steve Hacket concert last week. At
one point, during one of his songs unknown to us, we looked at each other
and remarked how it had that Klaatu sound and feeling.
Robert in Hull
-----Original Message-----
From: Glen (aka Barney Rubble)
Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2018 12:42 PM
To: klaatumail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [klaatumail] Possibly Klaatu kontent: Moe Koffman - "Master
Session"
Hey friends, S:^)
(I was going to post this somewhere on Facebook... but then realized I had
no idea which amidst the handful of Klaatu pages was housed an actual forum!
S:^o )
A couple of weeks ago, I picked up a Moe Koffman LP at a second-hand store,
simply because I'd happened to open the gatefold and notice a reference to a
"D. Long - rhythm guitar on 'Cavern of the Mountain Trolls'". Hmm... a D
Long at a recording session in 1973, done at Toronto Sound Studios and
released on GRT Records (with Terry Brown as audio engineer)... could "D"
mean Dee/David? It's hard to tell from the recording, as Terry Bush is
credited as playing lead guitar on this track amongst others, and at times
it's challenging to discern which of the two might actually be strumming
when Terry isn't in full solo mode... but it seems plausible.
And since we're talking about it: it's a fine album... and surprisingly
fusion-y! The leisurely jazzy electric waltz "Anitra's Last Dance" could
easily grace most any fusion album of international caliber from the same
era (think from Weather Report to CTI... a far cry from the Mahavishnu
Orchestra, though, so perhaps I should term this pop fusion?). I only have
Koffman's version of "The Four Seasons" in my collection other than this one
(and Moe also covers the beginning of its Spring section on this album's
opening track, "Morning Mist"), so I was expecting something more restrained
and "reverent". I was pleasantly surprised. S:^D By the middle of Side 1,
things get a little more as I expected, only to soon return to a jazzier
sphere (Hubert Laws land?) and taking a more straightforward "rock ballad"
arrangement on "Theme from Orpheus" (somewhere in the same vicinity as Space
Opera's "Outlines"). Side 2 starts with something that _must_ have been made
for radio (and I think I heard
it played around the time of Moe's passing, or a certain milestone
celebration of his): "Mozart's Ark" ("inspired by" Eine Klein Nachtmusik)...
it's catchy, but is more of an ABBA-era Benny Anderson instrumental (without
piano) than a Weather Report thing... until a King Crimson "Moonchild"
section comes out of nowhere (okay, so maybe there was a radio edit) and
segues into a section which gives the impression Thijs van Leer locked Jan
Akkerman out of the studio, gave Bert Ruiter an acoustic bass, told Pierre
van set Linden to lighten up his touch, and recorded a Focus 3 outtake,
before Jan finally breaks into the studio and the track returns
Anderson-land. The rest of the album floats between mellow CTI jazz-fusion
lite and non-schmaltzy MOR easy listening (with "Weather Report" returning
for half of Suite Fantastique).
So... anybody know if D Long is... Dee Long? S:^/
Glen (aka Barney Rubble)
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