SRXXVII - The Inn

BS ... he's influenced more dope/drinking people than ever ... and if you think the movie audience did any better, you're kidding me, right?

 

There were some folks that did nice things with it, and not always directly. The one that is most clear and open, was Bo Hansson.

 

It did have some other things that weren't great, but they were nice. The cartoonist Bashki did a version of the Rings that was actually rather nice, though he had to condense the whole thing to an hour and a half. The cartoon itself was really nice, though the music in it was not.

 

The book that really had more music influenced to it and by it, was actually a take on an English novel called "The Snow Goose", which Camel later interpreted beautifully only to have it get totally trashed by the rock music military militia that thinks that rock music has to have lyrics and be a 3 minute song and Camel never really survived, their single greatest piece of music ever. A beautiful soundtrack. The American version was Jonathan Livingston Seagull, since in America we don't like imports and no one is going to read The Snow Goose as it is too long! ... and the America version reads in 90 minutes!

 

It was similar to the "new age" thing ... just as many people wanted to have nothing to do with it as otherwise, and the artistry in most cases was questionable.

 

The one thing that is bizarre, that had a much bigger impact in "progressive" and other strange music, that most you folks are scared to discuss is the much more obvious influence of drugs and the discussion of Carlos Castaneda ... whose works influenced many bands, that kinda took it to heart very quickly ... but when you all in PA stop being afraid of discussing literature, magick and mind, let me know!