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This is where it all started...
Thanks Paul for your valiant efforts.
12 days in and this is becoming an interesting project but we need more contributors and contributions.
With new European Legislation looming to restrict freedom of writing in blogs, time may run out.
I agree, we need more people
I agree, we need more people taking part. I'm getting one or two new subscribers a day more or less, though there have been quite a few that have missed the need to confirm their email addresses. However, I am a firm believer in the "build it and they will come" approach so I will continue to work on providing decent content and tools, and take things slowly.
Can you provide a link to blog legislation please?
Have you thought about ...
getting some sort of promotion for this forum on the fourth-coming Nick and Roy tours ?
Even if Roy and Nick don't want the hassle of promoting the site ... then surely you could design say a A5 flyer for the site and us fans could print some off and take them to whatever gigs we may be going to .... and stealthily leave them lying around the gigs ?!?!
Promotion
Thanks for the input, Chris.
I still have a bunch of the Stormcock pens left over that I had made for Clon last year and I will take a bunch with me again this year. Tracy has also been very kind with these as she has been keeping a bunch of them on her merchandising table for people to take. The URL on the pen points to a special one that I can make direct straight to here, come to think of it, which might do the trick.
That said, a flyer might be a good thing as well. I'm not much of a graphic designer though. Anyone up for helping design an A5 handout for me?
P.
flyer design
Flyer
What a very kind offer! Pete, I'll work on this over the next few days and send you some text copy soon. I have another friend that'll work on a "proper" logo for the site soon so maybe we can incorporate that into the design.
Flyers
flyers at gigs
Yes, I think it would be a good idea for us Harperites to print out flyers to promote the site and leave them around the different gigs. I certainly would !!
Stormcock re-master - Mojo Review
From the January 2008 issue of Mojo:
Roy Harper
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STORMCOCK
SCIENCE FRICTION
Barking Bard's 1971 masterpiece re-mastered and re-credited.
And there, on the credits, is confirmation of rock's worst kept "secret"; lead guitar on track two, The Same Old Rock, long-credited to S Flavius Mercurius, is actually Jimmy Page, finally appearing under his own name. There's more to Stormcock than Page's great "lost" acoustic solo though. Most startling is how fresh and poignant it still sounds. The major themes - mass religion is a dangerous sop, war is wrong, Earth is screwed - are still relevant, Harper's arguments remarkably in tune with modern times. The re-mastering also means his grandly ambitious folk music, augmented with Moog and swelling strings, rings with a clarity and vibrancy seldom glimpsed before, particularly on that solo. A masterclass in how to curate back catalogue, and a well-deserved spit and polish for an old master.
Andy Fyfe.