On 09-18-96  18:05, shipwrecked and comatose, Stuart Dubois said:
 M>That would be _Fish Rising_ and _Motivation Radio_.  I haven't heard
 M>_Motivation Radio_ but I love _Fish Rising_, which is essentially _You
 M>Very Gong-ish indeed.
 
 SD>  Funny you should say that. DS1 called it the lost Khan album. 
 SD> Khan meets Gong, I suppose.
 
 M>I've heard it described both ways.  
 SD> I've never listened to them back to back (or back to back to back, I
 SD> suppose).  I'll have to give that a shot.  _Fish Rising_ is an oldie
 SD> for me; I had it back in the 70's.  _Shanty_ is a new album, in that
 SD> I've only heard it on CD.  I didn't like _You_ that much; mainstream
 SD> Gong doesn't appeal to me much (though it's on my ever-growing list of
 SD> things to go back and try again someday).
 SD> I have to say, though, when I first got _Shanty_ I did NOT think of
 SD> _Fish_.  _Shanty_ seems much less, uhhh, stoned, man, than _You_ or
 SD> _Fish_, though more so than most of DS's other work that I've heard.
I don't know about "stoned," but _Space Shanty_ has "hippie" written
all over it.  Maybe it's just the photos on the back, but...
I would have to say that I don't see much comparision between it and
either _You_ or _Fish Rising_, though...
        Frank
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