olzen wrote:FM - One O'Clock Tomorrow...This has to rank as one of the best prog rock songs ever written!
2066 wrote:I was just listening to their album Surveillance today! They played at my high school here and I got them to autograph my copy. I also know two people who know "Nash". One I just met this week! I even talked to Cameron Hawkins on the subway one day. I have a live broadcast recording by CFNY here in Toronto that has them playing songs from Black Noise and Suveillance. Cool band.
Massed Gadgets wrote:I love Nash and FM...I got to meet Nash (without his bandages--I actually have the bandages he wore for that legendary show) back when I was 16, after the 1981 Nash the Slash Halloween Bash...it was an awesome night. I've seen him live half a dozen times since then. I only got to see FM live once though. It was the period after Ben Mink had left and Nash had rejoined, but before they started recording again and doing really commercial Top 40 stuff, so it was an awesome show full of all the classics. I caught one of Nash's picks at that one. I love Headroom, it was certainly their most progressive work. Even though Nash had left, Ben Mink did a superb job. Do you have it on vinyl (quite rare!) or some other medium? I played my vinyl copy once and recorded it to cassette, then left it untouched to preserve it (the way it has remained for 29 years now ), but I lost that cassette a long time ago, so now I've been thinking of playing it again to rip it to mp3, since I haven't heard it in awhile.
So here they have their own thread!olzen wrote:Bandages? That's what you call a souvenir! I envy you for being able to see him alone. I don't think there are a lot of Nash fans in Denmark! Heck, I'd even go to a "pop-FM" gig. Just Like You is a great song, in my opinion, if only because it's fun and catchy. And Nash gets some brilliant moments in the video!
Headroom is a great album indeed. A very bold way to make an album and introduce a new member to the group. Unfortunately, I don't own the vinyl, no. I wish I did. I have seen it on eBay, though, so it may not be totally difficult to get. There are tons of the Black Noise LP on eBay as well, so I have to get that at some point. And then we'll just see whether the collection grows!
Right now, I have mp3s of all the FM studio albums (most are obviously vinyl rips), as well as (legal) mp3s of a lot of Nash's stuff. When it comes to FM, you can't beat Black Noise. That album is brilliant. As for Nash's stuff, the Blind Windows compilation is jawdropping. Thrash - the first album of his that I ever heard - deserves an honorary mention as well. The song We Will Be the Leaders is as good as anything Gary Numan ever made! Hmm, FM and Nash deserve their own thread on here!
I was a big collector back in the day of FM/Nash stuff. Mind you, it was when all of that was new and just coming out so it wasn't difficult to get then. I have all the original FM LP's (except for the two Top 40 ones, because I wasn't crazy about them and sold them, and City of Fear, because my copy of it seems to have disappeared, sadly, over successive moves). I have all the original Nash albums and most of the singles on vinyl too, including a very rare single put out by the DJ's of the radio station Terry mentioned, CFNY-FM, sort of their musical manifesto on which Nash played a solo, and an 80's album by Michael Waite and Eyes which Nash guested on (Waite and Nash were in a band together in the late 60's). I'm missing some though. My holy grail is an original vinyl copy of the 1976 experimental album Nocturnal Earthworm Stew by David Pritchard on which Nash played on a couple of tracks. And of course I'd like to replace my long lost copy of City of Fear.
It's a pity Cameron Hawkins hasn't seen fit to release any of the other classic FM albums on CD other than Black Noise, but we didn't even have a Black Noise CD for many, many years either. I remember the title track of that being one awesome piece when done live when I saw them.
Btw, Terry, I think I taped that same FM show off CFNY as you did. Is that the one where Who's Gonna Win the War by Hawkwind gets played directly after the end of it?