When you are a collector - be it of stamps, music, books, matchboxes or straw donkeys - stuff to add to your collection pops up at the oddest of unexpected moments. Yesterday, in an attempt to vary our Sunday drinking routine, we went to a free gig in the Robin 2 in Bilston. The band was a rock outfit called Ebony Tower. They turned out to be pretty decent, managing to overcome a very muddy sound balance in the venue, and the thirty or so people watching them all seemed to have a good time. More than that though the guitarist - Wilson McQueen - turned out to be a serious fan of Alice In Wonderland. The first song was from the EP and titled "White Rabbit" and a subsequent one, also from the EP, was called "The Looking Glass War". One not on the EP, but that will doubtless surface on the forthcoming album, was "Alice". They even, at one stage launched into a chorus of "Will you, won't you join the dance" - the Mock Turtle's song from the book.
Of course I had to buy the EP - no great hardship as it was only a fiver and I'd really enjoyed the show anyway.
It was an unexpected bonus and the EP will join my collection of Alice related stuff even if the two songs on it have no discernable lyrical connection to the books.
Of course I had to buy the EP - no great hardship as it was only a fiver and I'd really enjoyed the show anyway.
It was an unexpected bonus and the EP will join my collection of Alice related stuff even if the two songs on it have no discernable lyrical connection to the books.
2 comments:
Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" (written by Grace Slick) from their Surrealistic Pillow album is the archetypical psychedelic/acid rock song. Is that included in your collection, Bob? If not, it should be! :)
Of course it is!
It's one of the best songs about Alice ever written, and I have quite a collection of them.
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