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Great story, @QB, with some wonderful new details on a vague old anecdote. There must be many other stories from the early years that many HLers would love to hear !

mh wrote:

Quiff Boy wrote:Andrew was to be Captain Black, natch I forgot what sort of "Captain" Gary was going to be, but it may have been "Orange".

Hey! Reservoir dogs!

paint it black wrote:

mh wrote:

Quiff Boy wrote:Andrew was to be Captain Black, natch I forgot what sort of "Captain" Gary was going to be, but it may have been "Orange".

Hey! Reservoir dogs!

thats what i thought.

Loved the anecdote, QB!

("Mr Orange, or should I say Mr Red, what with all the blood...")

paint it black wrote:

mh wrote:

Quiff Boy wrote:Andrew was to be Captain Black, natch I forgot what sort of "Captain" Gary was going to be, but it may have been "Orange".

Hey! Reservoir dogs!

That would have been their reference point, I believe

I think Gary said the "captains..." idea came from their love of Devo, IIRC, but i may be misremembering that part.

I do remember Gary saying Andrew used to sit in Leeds Central Library pouring over old letraset books looking for a good typeface. I gather Andrew almost settled on one that Gary called a german, gothic looking one - which I'm guessing may be something like one of these:

http://www.dafont.com/fette-unz-fraktur.font
http://www.dafont.com/deutsch-gothic.font

How different our world would have been if Gary had not been able to dissuade him from that

I wonder if that's where he found the image for the Damage Done artwork too...

'can i help you sir?'

...'yes, i'm looking for a book full of goth imagery for my new record sleeve. do you have any?.. but i'm not a goth myself, so it can't be goth!'

Quiff Boy wrote: How different our world would have been if Gary had not been able to dissuade him from that

OMG I'm glad he did, or goths would be the least of Von's audience problems... (or rather a different kind of Goths...)

(although it's a funny coincidence that I saw a feature on the rift Fraktur/Antiqua in European printing only past Sunday.)

Re: Captain Scarlet: annnnnd I just learned something about British children's TV from the 60s.

Another great story, @QB ! Any more anecdotes gratefully received.

I'm loving the word "misremebering".

Making a note to use that on Sunday when I wake up

Nikolas Vitus Lagartija wrote:Another great story, @QB ! Any more anecdotes gratefully received.

Only that Gary drinks (or drank) black coffee, no sugar

Oh, and that he likes dogs... my old german shepherd (Jake, aka Fat Lad) tried to eat him once, but instead they had a play fight.

It was very surreal watching Gary Marx rolling around my living room floor play-fighting my dog.

He was a lovely guy: very genuine, very open and honest (as you can tell from reading his Ghost Dance recording diaries)