Heartland

Another post now up on my TSOM blog commemorating Gary's contribution to the band, containing a wonderful photo (courtesy of Bruno Bossier) of Mr Marx's infamous gaffer-taped goth boots, and some extracts (courtesy of Phil Verne) about said boots from Gary's last published TSOM interview which featured in Artificial Life fanzine.
For those unfamiliar with the interview, which is well worth a read, Phil has kindly shared the whole thing over on the 8085 Facebook group.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1704379173138423/
My blog post can be viewed here : http://sistersfan.blogspot.co.uk/2016/1 ... -1985.html

Haha.
I'm going to be studying many videos for those now

Adam also wore gaffa taped boots - who wears them these days, Ben or Chris?

Gaffa tape is clearly underrated, I fixed my snowmobile more then once with gaffa tape

Tape it
Belt it
Nuke it from orbit


The only options.

That bit about him being good with the fans; he was a bloody diamond. Guest lists aplenty and he'd always get you a beer from the rider if you'd travelled a long way. Absolute gent

couldnt agree more. he may have got Quiffboy to design his website but he read and answered fan emails (mine) personally and was humble with regard to high praise and generous with his largesse. he even gave eldritch an entire album for f**k-all out of the goodness of his heart (eldritch's squandering of that oppurtunity remains the only criticism and beef i have with von over anything.)

I'm completely out of touch on this, but I'm guessing you're referring to the time, late 90s, when Eldritch began making noises about him and Mark working together again?

Think Mark was happy with the idea but AE didn't follow through with it

i'm talking about what became Gary Marx's "1995 and Nowhere" album. saddened at seeing the band/eldritch stagnate creatively and release nothing Mark wrote a whole albums worth of songs that Eldritch had only to add lyrics/vocals to. eldritch was initially enthusiastic but started to demand things of Mark that he wasnt prepared to ever do with eldritch again; namely working in the studio or toeing the fanatical line of eldritch's control-freakery.
when it became clear that eldritch's interest in the project had dissipated, Mark wrote his own lyrics , using this affair and his ongoing relationship (or lack of it) with eldritch as subject matter. it was available as a roughish demo from Mark on cd-r for a few years, until renewed interest in the album (instigated by myself and the members of this forum) sufficiently encouraged him to return to the studio, finish and polish the tracks and release it officially. wiki-clicky

& a darn fine collection it was too. I think Von really missed a trick there

Pista wrote:& a darn fine collection it was too. I think Von really missed a trick there

i agree. and as Mark says, it would have been far and above what it became with eldritch's input yet to transform the work. should have been the 4th album....

Well, FWIW I thought it was backward-looking, same-sounding rubbish. It sounded like a Rosetta Stone album.

I've only got the CD-R demo, I never upgraded to the full album.

czuczu wrote:Adam also wore gaffa taped boots - who wears them these days, Ben or Chris?

Major Tom (presumably) in Bowie's Blackstar video, as I noticed last night.

So when he sings "I'm a blackstar" is that some kind of hint that despite all the changes he went through Bowie was a Goth all along?

kafka wrote:backward-looking, same-sounding

isn't that what the detractors of everything sfter 1985 want? as Mark says, what it would have turned out like with eldritch's lyrics vocals etc would have been something completely different. but not rosette 'o' drone esque. even salvation never managed to sound that bad.