Alan Clark - new interview

[quizzaciously]

That's what riles me about these discussions. Lots of holier than thou pronouncements, mostly made by people who've never walked the walk.

The person who demands silence is usually the loudest one. I can write a book from all your condescending narratives and suggestions for people to grow up and stop living in fantasy as if we are a bunch of stupid toddlers here. You are doing things you accuse people of doing with this condescending attitude and holier-than-thou pronouncements and this is what bothers me each time. I know you're older, more experienced, more talented, luckier, wiser and wealthier than me, but jeez, can you stop stressing this fact in every single message?

@ Moderators, don't be too angry about this, it's not the worst that happened on this forum and I know Chris can handle this discussion, he's above this (and he'll be more than happy to say it again).

[dustyvalentino]

As a moderator I'll just ask please that we try to steer the topic back on-topic. Alan made some interesting comments about the direction DS went in.

[Jules]

I'm reading the Ed Bicknell message before I post it and there is something very interesting about "Terminal of tribute to"... nobody thought the song could be about ANY tribute band, which makes sense...

I'm posting the Bicknell message soon, promise.

Quoting myself, thinking that the song could be about tribute bands in general, some parts of the songs are more correct now for me...

[rmarques821]

I still would take a good independent DS tribute band like Great Straits over DSL any time.

I would take the one band that does the music and the legacy justice, and that very clearly means DSE.
99% of the tribute bands have no energy and as soon as someone starts singing in a heavy continental accent the illusion is lost.

Well, this is true. I have absolutely no patience for DS tribute bands, but I once listened to one (they are Spanish and very popular there) and had to turn it off 3 seconds in due to the terrible accent and overall vocal delivery. I really couldn't understand what the guy was singing.

[quizzaciously]

I'm reading the Ed Bicknell message before I post it and there is something very interesting about "Terminal of tribute to"... nobody thought the song could be about ANY tribute band, which makes sense...

I'm posting the Bicknell message soon, promise.

Quoting myself, thinking that the song could be about tribute bands in general, some parts of the songs are more correct now for me...

But Ed said he never heard the song and never discussed tribute bands with Mark, so I'm not sure how you can draw these conclusions from that. To me, it's clear that Mark is saying stuff nearly from the first-person perspective, "You've been faking it soooo long. Now you don't know right from wrong." For me, it's really hard to convince myself Mark is doing it in character and not saying it to somebody directly, that would be too far for imagination. Occam's razor tells me the song's gotta be about THE band and THE person, not about A band or A person.

[Pottel]

guys, jeez, calm down, all of you

It's a perennial problem with certain fans.
Not something that comes from all members. Those people are the ones that should be told to grow up.

which is why i explicitly mentioned not to take my statement personal.

[Pottel]

Would be the same if Guy Pratt, Snowy White, Tim Renwick and Dick Parry starts out the Pink Floyd Legacy as the most important members from PF.

Well said, Rolo

did you just quote and applaud yourself? lol

[Pottel]

That's what riles me about these discussions. Lots of holier than thou pronouncements, mostly made by people who've never walked the walk.

The person who demands silence is usually the loudest one. I can write a book from all your condescending narratives and suggestions for people to grow up and stop living in fantasy as if we are a bunch of stupid toddlers here. You are doing things you accuse people of doing with this condescending attitude and holier-than-thou pronouncements and this is what bothers me each time. I know you're older, more experienced, more talented, luckier, wiser and wealthier than me, but jeez, can you stop stressing this fact in every single message?

@ Moderators, don't be too angry about this, it's not the worst that happened on this forum and I know Chris can handle this discussion, he's above this (and he'll be more than happy to say it again).

not being angry, i just want to stay on topic. and we are far from topic now. if it drags on like this it becomes really boring
Yall should go read Ed's statement, it is the best post in ages..., then drink a cuppa and come back here to discuss the Alan interview.

[peterromer]

Could not disagree more with older posts. I am not checking in or answering posts on daily basis, many of them I just read.
An old post (let says some weeks) can be extremely interesting. I dont care if its 2 days or 2 weeks old if it was something I did not know.

And Chris is right about this is the place of MK/DS discussions. I have always looked at AMIT like this, since we all left the MK Forum, like this was the exact place to do so.

I would welcome DSL in Denmark. I would go straight ahead to see them if I had the chance. Also to if Chris is right about their performance.
To judge by myself. And of course, we are not going to see MK anymore, so why not take the chance to listen to some DS classics.

We have discussed Terminal before, and like many of you I think it is about DSL because of the many underlying words. But that does not make me not want to go to their concerts just because Alan and Mark are maybe still a bit pissed at each other in some way.
I am guessing based on interviews. maybe the "3 Chord trick" was about MK, you never know, you can only speculate as that is what I am doing now. 

 And by the way I still listen to the DSL album from time to time, there is some good music on there.
maybe they should play Looking For America, Bounty Hunter in some of their DSL concerts.
Do they only plays DS ?

 


 
 

[Robson]

I'm reading the Ed Bicknell message before I post it and there is something very interesting about "Terminal of tribute to"... nobody thought the song could be about ANY tribute band, which makes sense...

I'm posting the Bicknell message soon, promise.

That's why I asked if Mark had ever talked about this song 

[Rolo]

did you just quote and applaud yourself? lol

Just for fun!

[quizzaciously]

Would be the same if Guy Pratt, Snowy White, Tim Renwick and Dick Parry starts out the Pink Floyd Legacy as the most important members from PF.

Well said, Rolo

did you just quote and applaud yourself? lol

That's the second-best thing that happened on the forum after Ed Bicknell's message.

[dustyvalentino]

So...

Seeing as this site is "wildly speculative and sometimes just plain deluded" as per Ed, do we want to speculate as to why Ed did not want to comment on this thread and made a point of saying that he had not listened to any of Alan's music?

[peterromer]

So...

Seeing as this site is "wildly speculative and sometimes just plain deluded" as per Ed, do we want to speculate as to why Ed did not want to comment on this thread and made a point of saying that he had not listened to any of Alan's music?

Did Ed say that about AMIT or am I misunderstanding something here ?. I did not hear that part.

[Love Expresso]

Ed mentions it in the first paragraphs of his post from yesterday that came to us via jbaent. Not in the video interview.

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