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["gordon" <dwilhelmi@ti...co.uk>]

  This really is a brilliant piece.

  G
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Philip Rush 
    To: The Blue Aeroplanes Mailing List 
    Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 8:13 AM
    Subject: Re: [Blueplanes] Re: Altitude Review by Michael Stipe... 


    I may be unique (I doubt it) but I think the Blue Aeroplanes' support 
of REM did more for me to move me in the direction of REM than any 
endorsement by REM of the Blue Aeroplanes might do in the opposite 
direction. 


    So, it's nice to see Mr Stipe speaking on the same lines.  I quite 
like 10,000 Maniacs, too, and wasn't there something brief between Stipe 
and Natalie Merchant?  He certainly mixes with the stars, that one.


    I like the way Altitude loops round with the bleeps and dollops thing. 
 I also find it much better loud.  Perhaps too much better, if you take my 
meaning.


    Perhaps it lacks a structural integrity.  I think we can all recognise 
the sessions and the years when these tracks were recorded.  I remember 
(vaguely) a gig in a different venue in Bristol - big pub, beer, picnic 
style tables, warehouse sort of place in the docks (could be anywhere) - 
where the Aeros included the Larder sisters and a rather overdressed 
Angelo.  They did a whole set really of new stuff, just a few old faves, 
which I have never really been able to identify since.  But I now think 
some of Altitude was aired on that occasion.


    On the other hand, well, an album should be just that, an album.


    I am already looking forward to the live tracks from towards the end 
of the tour, and the next album.  Still think the Aeros must be unique in 
the rock world for not actually existing.  Even the 'contemporary' photo 
on the Altitude booklet is inaccurate (isn't it?).  


    Philip










    On 28 Apr 2006, at 22:50, Mike Melville wrote:


       I thought this quote from Stipe on Swagger was interesting ( 
www.remhq.com )

      "I had always wanted to do a dylanesque, or lou reed type vocal on a 
song[hear it in ‘end of the world...’ or ‘belong’]but never felt that I 
could pull it off in an r.e.m. song; having toured with blue aeroplanes 
through part of May of 1989, I think it gave me the unconscious courage to 
go for it in what has become one of my favorite r.e.m. songs of all time, 
‘e-bow the letter’."

      Funnily enough I'd never thought of E-Bow as being in any way BA 
influenced (sort of) but I did always think 'Departure' from the same 
record was heavily indebted to the Aeroplanes.

      Took him a while in any case - from the '89 tour to a record 
released in '96!

      Mike M
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