Be Bop Deluxe anybody?

I got 2 be bop lps .live in the air age ,and axe victim. if any1 wants them theyre for sale.email [email protected] 

verslibre wrote: richardh wrote: Anyone noticed that there's a passing resemblance between the track 'Blazing Apostles' and Rush 'Spirit Of Radio'? Hm? Don't remember that one, now I'll have to check it out! I've had Live In The Air Age for some time. Great CD. Wasn't there supposed to be some huge box set of everything Be Bop?

Oh.........I also have Bill Nelson's album from before Be Bop Deluxe and I would call it hippie folk music albeit with his typically great guitar work.............Northern Dream

Anyone noticed that there's a passing resemblance between the track 'Blazing Apostles' and Rush 'Spirit Of Radio'?

vocanodancer wrote: Your opinion and many more as well. Who cares. Those that like it usualy love it because it speaks to them. For them, cheers!

Thank you for recognizing comment as opinion. Thank yo0u also for pointing out importance of differing opinion to those who disagree.

Klaatu's Hope, Ange's Emile Jacotey, and Spilt Enz' TIme and Tide should be in the top 100 here at PA. They are not, and that makes me pretty sure i'm in a special crowd>

Be Bop Deluxe and Kansas were my introduction to prog way back in the day.  I got Modern Music and Masque for Christmas one year and never looked back.

I have a lot of time for Bill Nelson especially as a musician and artist who has been ploughing his own furrow for 30 years - check out the opening tune of the compilation What Now What Next for a hint of the man's artistic objective. I was fortunate to stage manage one of Be Bop Deluxe's early gigs when they were  still semi-pro and about to sign to Harvest. That was when Nelson was deep into his version of Ziggy Stardust  and you may hear that early 70's Bowie influence at times in the music. Nelson and co turned up in Loughborough in their work clothes having left work in Rotherham and Sheffield early that afternoon - they came out of our dressing room completely altered, make-up and essentially glam-rock clothing. They went on stage as unknowns to most of reasonably large audience and did a storming set of music largely from the future Axe Victim album - and I watched this from the wings of the stage, and theywere impressive  - Axe Victim has remained my favourite. However, I agree with Debrewguy about the inconsistency; all their albums have high points but also tracks that get skipped. I can recommended Nelson's first solo(?) Red Noise, which for obvious reasons and some less so, the bridge between Be Bop Deluxeand his subequent electronica career, when Nelson rarely touched his guitar favouring synths.

Mediocre compositions lifted by a somewhat eccentric guitarist, from a band that managed one or two kind of memorable tunes. Not bad, just not that good.

I've not spent much time listening to Be Bop Deluxe. But I have a lot of the solo stuff. He's inventive and prolific as a composer. About the only problem is that at times he releases unfinished stuff. Thinly produced.

The whole of the Be Bop Deluxe catalogue (Axe Victim to Drastic Plastic)was re-issued remastered and added to about 2 years ago,including Live in the Air Age

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