I definitely don´t live in the past. A collegue of mine is living in the past as he always tells stories from "früher" und "dodemols". *lol*
He´s getting on the nerves of everyone but of course doesn´t realis(z)e it.
Markus.
> Forgive me if this a little disjointed, but it's an idea
> that came to me while replying to Bright Eyes post below.
>
> Seems to me that Steinfans, possibly more than any group
> of fans on the planet, live in the past. We want to hear
> demos of old songs, live in hope that Rheingold or
> Neverland might see the light of day with clean
> recordings, discuss what songs we'd like to have seen Meat
> and Jim recycle on Bat 3 etc etc...
>
> With The Dream Engine project, a lot of the discussion
> centred around what songs should they record from Jim's
> past works. We know the Bat musical will be near enough
> 100% recycled material but we beg for news of it.
>
> Has Jim succeeded in brainwashing all of us? Are we now so
> used to the recycling of old material that we expect it,
> look forward to it, would even be disappointed if it
> didn't happen?
>
> What other songwriter has so consistently plundered his
> own archives to produce "new" material? (remember The
> Dream Engine promised 'new lyrics' to old songs amoungst
> it's other grandoise claims).
>
> Final question - do we care?
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