At 04:03 AM 8/30/2002, N3O OUIJA wrote:
quoted 6 lines as an old numanoid i truley rate replicas as one of numan's greatest>as an old numanoid i truley rate replicas as one of numan's greatest
>works..though his masterpiece has to be the album telekon.if you enjoyed
>replicas,the pleasure principle then check out telekon from 1980.gary
>numan is amazing and responsible for the synth movement at the end of the
>70's in the uk..his stuff today is somewhat lame as he has choses the nu
>metel route..stay we clear!
An interesting aside from back in the day: Legend has it that Numan taught
John Foxx how to use his synth. Interesting anecdote from shortly
thereafter : I remember seeing him a few times back then. He used to tour
with his parents. I worked at a record store with another guy who was
dating a woman named Linda, who happened to be a fairly highly placed WEA
rep at the time, so she
"entertained" a lot of the touring acts and got backstage at most
everything. Gary was a very nice, clean cut young man (not at all like the
sort of dour, disillusioned nihilist he plays onstage) who was often waited
on with tea and cookies by his Mum whilst doing interviews, etc. Not that
this is bad, it was just an odd juxtaposition of images.
I remember when he had just released "Cars" and I got comp. tix up
front. He had these little mechanical bots scurrying around onstage amidst
the dry ice fog; they were equipped with capstan drives so that when they
encountered resistance, they would reverse direction. Unfortunately, they
kept getting caught on a 'lip' at the front of the stage at the Royal Oak
theatre (near Detroit) and they just sat there, spinning their wheels. It
was very funny watching Gary notice one of them stuck out of the corner of
his eye and (trying to keep his serious demeanor) gradually edging over to
kick it off of the lip while acting like nothing was wrong...then having
the same thing occur with the other one - then having them both get caught
simultaneously and having him break form and smile at me (I was laughing
quite hard) and shrug. It was almost as funny as when Gene Simmons inhaled
a bit when he should have exhaled at the end of "Firehouse" (when he does
the lighter fluid spit on the candelabra) and caught his face on fire (not
serious) at Cobo. Spinal Tap moments. For the record, The Pretty Things
were supposed to be on the bill ( I wasn't there to see Kiss...I had long
had my fill of them by the time they released their first record as they
warmed up for 90% of the gigs in Detroit for seemingly forever) and they
had cancelled. I was pretty bummed out, but watching roadies run from the
wings to beat Simmons with towels had enough evil humor content in it to
appease me. I know that's not a good thing, but really...you have to ask
yourself how much sense it takes to blow lighter fluid on candles and if
there isn't some justice done. Yes, I'm rambling. That's what happens when
you get old.
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