Given the wonderful box sets for Be Bop and beyond to Red Noise and Bill’s solo work what are the chances of a Love that Whirls/Chimera box set? I’m sure there would be plenty of material!
I have always said that there is gold in the vaults! Remember we bought Bill a PCF-1 tape deck to access - seemingly - lost tapes of songs in progress. These Tapes Rewind was the result.
Bill's position has always been that was yesterday, today is today and we are looking at tomorrow. Hence the future retroism themes of the album covers. Which is fine - make new music now!
Bill has slowed down, but the demand for his music has not. I believe that the Mayor has assisted in putting together a collection of his Acquitted by Mirrors recordings. These box sets are along those lines of getting product to the people who cannot experience Bill in Concert or on the radio (?). In fact, the recent tidbit of news was a previous concert is being cleaned up for release.
Bill may be in the perfect position of his career now that folks will help him to complete his projects in the final mixing, manufacture and distribution - all the things that have caused him challenges in the past. There is even a digital distribution system in place with Bandcamp. The Dreamer's Companion Vol. 1-3 are a great example.
Perhaps it is my wish to keep providing the income for Bill to be Bill. We even provided money to go from analogue to digital forever ago. So, I say mine the gold in the vaults so some of us and relive yesterday. The sweet/sour experiences of youth. The memories of dreams.
I would have to think if this was when Bill played with Monsoon featuring Sheila Chandra. He contributed e-bow guitar and electric guitar. Both were on Mercury at the time.
On TLTW liner notes it says: "The material on this album constitutes approximately half of the total recordings made at various intervals between April and November 1981. The remainder will hopefully appear in various forms throughout the coming months."
Has anything been released from that treasure trove? That we know about?
Surely, a lot of what Bill is referring to us is the very substantial set of B-sides and extra tracks that cropped up at the time? A Cherry Red box set would be bound to include those anyway. I wouldn't be surprised if there are more leftovers, but it may not be much that didn't see the light of day at the time.
I love the stuff from that 'era' of Bill's work - approaching electropop from the point of view of a genuinely experienced songwriter, musician and studio user. Deeper, cleverer and just that little bit darker in tone than his contemporaries. Let's not lose a minute of what is available in the archives, please!
A gig recording should be possible too, shouldn't it?
Meanwhile, can someone edit the title of this thread from 'Love the Whitls' to 'Love that Whirls, please???!
I have always said that there is gold in the vaults! Remember we bought Bill a PCF-1 tape deck to access - seemingly - lost tapes of songs in progress. These Tapes Rewind was the result.
Bill's position has always been that was yesterday, today is today and we are looking at tomorrow. Hence the future retroism themes of the album covers. Which is fine - make new music now!
Bill has slowed down, but the demand for his music has not. I believe that the Mayor has assisted in putting together a collection of his Acquitted by Mirrors recordings. These box sets are along those lines of getting product to the people who cannot experience Bill in Concert or on the radio (?). In fact, the recent tidbit of news was a previous concert is being cleaned up for release.
Bill may be in the perfect position of his career now that folks will help him to complete his projects in the final mixing, manufacture and distribution - all the things that have caused him challenges in the past. There is even a digital distribution system in place with Bandcamp. The Dreamer's Companion Vol. 1-3 are a great example.
Perhaps it is my wish to keep providing the income for Bill to be Bill. We even provided money to go from analogue to digital forever ago. So, I say mine the gold in the vaults so some of us and relive yesterday. The sweet/sour experiences of youth. The memories of dreams.
I would have to think if this was when Bill played with Monsoon featuring Sheila Chandra. He contributed e-bow guitar and electric guitar. Both were on Mercury at the time.
On TLTW liner notes it says: "The material on this album constitutes approximately half of the total recordings made at various intervals between April and November 1981. The remainder will hopefully appear in various forms throughout the coming months."
Has anything been released from that treasure trove? That we know about?
One can only hope & pray, this will be a brilliant way to follow Quit Dreaming.
Time to email Cherry Red 😍
Mark me down for one when it's released!