What on earth is Richard Sinclair doing? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

rcarlberg wrote:

Logan wrote:

I might end up breaking the internet while I'm at it.

That actually might not be such a bad thing,

Can we vote on that? Ouch

^ Yes, but in strict confidence, I will warn you that the results will be rigged. And as long as it is paper ballots (using good old fashioned erasable ink). I broke the electronic voting machines "by mistake" with a little help from my colluding friends.

rcarlberg wrote:

...Yep. Frank taped EVERYTHING. To be fair, he did a series of "Beat The Boots" to take the wind out of the bootleggers, since he had soundboard recordings of everything.

And he mixed in particularly-successful solos from wherever they occurred when doing his "You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore" series. So his tapes did not entirely go to waste.

Hi,

However, when considering the quantity of the material, you can see it on the Alex Winter special, the amount is small ... and there is more. I, sincerely doubt that anyone in that family has the ability to listen to these things and find material that could be released. They were all brought up in the era of "song" and not "serious music" (per Frank), to appreciate what I imagine to be a good half of all those tapes.

Guy Guden in one of his blogs (all of them have been taken down, likely because it had some nasty history with the radio stations he was a part of!), specified that during an interview and then warm up for a show in Santa Barbara, that the band played almost 30 minutes non stop and little of it was recognizable material. And Steve Vai also specifies the greatest solo he ever heard ... which I'm not sure it has been released and appreciated like Steve did. I think that the stuff that Guy has is likely lost by now ... I screamed at him in the year 2000 to turn things into mp3 as the majority of the tapes likely won't last, and I was, at the time, able to save, over 300 hours of his show going back to 1974, and I gave him a copy of all the shows I had ... and at that time I had lost nearly 50 to 60 hours of shows, that were on cheaper cassettes like Radio Shack and such. Pretty much all the TDK and Maxell stuff survived.

I'm glad to see Richard show these tings, despite some folks not liking it ... I have never thought that music should be created, and played for a closet ... and as an artist and writer, I find that idea really sad, regardless of the situation.

It's just a very sad situation all around, and my hope is that it all comes together and happy before the time comes when it can't be done anymore ... as we all get older, it is important that we learn that we need to go with a smile on our faces, and not a sad one, and while I do not wish to think anything bad about Mr. Stewart, I do think that sometimes, we can only hope that some things get the appreciation they deserve, and hopefully they will be remembered for a lot of their work, instead of so many artists disappearing and falling off the side of the road ... to nowhere, as Deke Leonard specified.

Edited by moshkito - February 15 2025 at 20:37

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This should not be a surprise, my only surprise was that they stayed for any length of time.

Ian

Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com

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While I have no doubts that rcarlberg did this with the best intentions. But after having taken a look at the page in quesstion, I have no trouble understanding Dave Stewart either.

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

From Steve Feigenbaum on FB on the same subject

Maybe Richard should stop being a dick and not post things that he doesn’t have sole rights to?
Is that really asking too much?
signed, SOMEONE ELSE who had his intellectual property being sold by Richard WHO HAD NO LEGAL RIGHT to it and made BandCamp take it down, after my email to Richard asking him to please take these specific things down, was ignored.

Hi,

I do think that Richard has to be more sensitive to the other folks he has played with in the past ... but there is one thing that kind of bothers me, which is likely the bad side of Canterbury ... I bet! ... there are too many individual folks with it, for their own everything, and there is way too much music buried because of it ... makes me wonder why bother playing if some folks don't want anyone to hear it ... wait 75 years so it goes to public domain? Seeing the BBC do this, and finally you can hear all of The Goons, and even earlier stuff like Michael Bentine ... is far out ... and so many other comedy things that I can't even figure out what to listen to ... but the 1970's? I don't think I will be around in 2045 ... or most of us here for it ... before we can hear so many of these things ...

Somewhere, I am inclined to think that Richard Sinclair is not the only one that is out of order.

We will not hear it by then, I'm sure!

But, Richard, likely should have tried to get some kind of agreement, but when you have to do 4 or 5 of these in one band alone ... we have a problem ... and I am inclined to think that these folks are not into the music at al when they played it. They were, already, into their own trip, and that individuality "made" Canterbury stand out, but it is likely to show, now, why it died so fast, and so many of those folks disappeared and became teachers in various colleges.

I, really, do not know what to think anymore. I like Richard, as I like so many of the other's works ... and I am really sad that one of my favorite families, is down to total destruction and killing the music, by relegating it to the closest closet with or without skeletons!

Edited by moshkito - 4 hours 39 minutes ago at 09:28

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