Personally, I find Julian's fake-psycho-stoned-image wording and reviews rather boring.

 

I do appreciate his liking some of this stuff, but when you hear what he does, by GOD, I want my NEU back and NOW!

 

I think of him as someone trying to be hip and gathering fans to sell his own material. I'm ok with that on his own work, but trying to come off like the spokes-person for "krautrock" is something that he is not, unless he was there during the time and was also getting stoned and partying and screwing the girls over there ... because it was all such a trip and NY was a downer by comparison! I mean you had Iggy and the Stooges -- really inspiration astuff for your balls --- or Lou Reed --- so inspiring that sometimes you want to get mad at him, or do some more Mary Jane! --- you know the drill ... !!! It was so romantic ... and you really wanted to have some .... fun ... he's very NY'ish if you ask me.

 

But yeah ... if there is one thing we could use right now is a nice mix of Neu and metal ... to help free up some of the over rated lyrics, and that overego thing that because it sells in NY, or London, the whole world has to eat it! It's a number thing ... becauase more read it makes it more important and the rest is stupid!

 

We need to get better than that! And so does Julian with his quasi-fake-plasticpeacesign-bullpuckypoop-idea of "krautrock".

 

If Archie includes his own story in LA selling imports and being a part of that whole area's thing, it would be one of the more massive, and important histories of progressive music in the West Coast ... I doubt that many folks would have as much information, stories and knowledge, than him. In those days, most of these were "imports" and Archie was a part of a record company bringing these in and distributing them, if I specified it correctly.

 

The other person is Guy Guden, but his star-shine is smelly and he is not interested in sharing it with anyone, because it doesn't fit/feed his star-ego. He is occasionally posting here as blubberfish or something like it, and his disguise is very thin ... but he won't talk about it, because it "lessens" his fame and story and work! Guy, however, did his greatest work in this area from Santa Barbara, though, and that was not quite the major areas, but some of the things that happened there, while Guy fought for a job, and not have to work in a liquor store to support the "import" addiction that we had.

 

Archie, however, always been quiet and ProgArchives is not capable of interviewing him about it ... though I really think that adding Archie's perspectives would be nice ... with one problem ... PA does not have a "historical" perspective area, despite my requests, to help define the word and its ideas and possibilities ... and that "historical" perspective is the problem with a "database" of something ... that is no longer possible to organize. Thus, Archie, like most anything I state and write here, will end up being ignored and not be valuable, when the content of it is much more important as a historical document -- than your or mine opinion ... with one difference ... the clarity of the perspective above it is non-existent.

 

I would like to see a "historical" perspective area, where we can discuss a lot of things in many places around the world ... but I think database folks are scared that it would deteriorate into a political mish-mash ... instead of a pizza and Doctor Pepper mish-mash!