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All the usual ‘project’ guys are here besides Woolfson and Parsons - Ian Bairnson on guitar, Stuart Elliot on drums, Duncan Mackay on synths and various vocalists, including Colin Blunstone, Paton (who also plays bass) and Lenny Zakatek. God I love old Alan Parsons! Pyramid, released in 1978, starts just as I want an Alan Parsons Project to start an album, with a spacy instrumental “Voyager,” leading into a more poppy, singable “What Goes Up,” featuring a great David Paton vocal. This entire project was overseen by Parsons and Woolfson in hopes of satisfying fans and maybe a whole new listening audience. Stereotomy and Gaudi - have been reissued with previously unreleased bonus tracks. Now, the albums that followed - Pyramid, Eve, The Turn Of A Friendly Card, Ammonia Avenue, That album, Tales Of Mystery And Imagination, and the follow-up, I Robot, are still my favorite Alan Parsons Project releases, showcasing not only the pair’s musicianship and songwriting but a progressive rock sensibility as well. It took no time at all for the two to begin working together in earnest with Woolfson quickly creating the idea of a concept album based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Songwriter, piano player, vocalist, producer and manager for such notables asĬarl Douglas (remember “Kung Fu Fighting”?), Eric Woolfson met Parsons when the former was looking for a manager. I just loaded “The Best of The Alan Parsons Project Volume 2” from my old CD technology into my itunes (which is surprisingly categorized as rock, and looking at “The Turn of a Friendly Card”, progressive rock even), so that I can take some of those travels again as I shuffle songs or feel the siren call of Eric Woolfson calling me back to my childhood.Beginning as a ‘tea-runner’ at Abbey Road studios, Alan Parsons graduated to engineering albums like the Beatles’ Let It Be and Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side Of The Moon. Remind me to tell you about Butch someday. I’m not even sure if I can say that I like the music as much as the memories. Watching “Prime Time” and feeling somewhere in between.įavorite bands change and even now, I am not without sheepishness to admit to a past love, and even a bit of a current one, for The Alan Parsons Project or later groups like Hall and Oates, Night Ranger, David Lee Roth and Dokken. Watching “Let’s Talk About Me” and realizing that some things are better left in the past. Watching “Don’t Answer Me” and thinking of Lichtenstein, how animation has changed and how a good story still is the base on which those images rely. Watching a turntable spin “Eye in the Sky” and thinking of all the old vinyl that I had. Cue the lights….)įrom there, it was just one long trip. (As I write, I confirmed it isn’t, but still the journey starts there, and even a journey that starts under false pretenses is still a journey, or am I getting too metaphysical? Let’s just get “Physical” and go on with the show. The fourth one got me to sit up and watch closer as I swore it was a view of Maroon Lake near Aspen. The video, with “Time” playing underneath, had a ton of cool nature images. That’s when the nostalgia started flowing like the Mississippi River during flood stage. While looking for the lyrics, I saw there was a youtube link. I got an A- and surprisingly didn’t have my lunch money stolen afterwards. However, there was enough there for me to use it as my interpretive song for a drama class in high school. I looked at the lyrics, and saw there wasn’t a whole bunch there. As with most things from your youth, it is probably more fondly remembered than it is.
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I think I first was exposed to the song on a collection of hits called “Dimensions” from that great compiler of hits, K-Tel Records. So, immediately I went to my own history and started to think of my first favorite band, The Alan Parsons Project, since “Time” was one of their biggest hits. Looking over the Big News board, I realize that I’ll have a lot of time for my own writing in the next couple of weeks as the ioWest is repaired (as will a lot of folks.) I must have been in a reflective mood anyway as I had just viewed an interview of George Carlin by Ralph Kiner on the youtube and started to read an account of how the poet Billy Collins was inspired by one of my all-time favorites, Looney Tunes. So, then I head over to the ol’ internet just to see what is happening. Then cool, calm rationality takes over, or as I call it, sleep. Every once in a while, like tonight, I’ll try to fight it, thinking, I must stay awake, it’s a Friday night. I just woke up from a Friday evening nap, one of life’s little pleasures. How did I start thinking about The Alan Parsons Project tonight? Well, it was because the ioWest was hit with an SUV on Thursday.