a message from Christian Death's booking agent

[Jeremy]

Bands like Pink Floyd and Genesis (two good examples of bands which
lost their lead singer but kept on going anyway) kept the name and the
vision of the band throughout with no break. Pink Floyd continued to
be about psychadelia, Genesis continued to be about prog. However, the
band Christian Death ceased to exist, and then was brought back in a
different form and in a different artistic direction. Nowadays there's
only one original member if I'm not mistaken.

Not that "original membership" in a band should make a giant
difference in my opinion. Caring a lot about original membership is
just playing into the culture of celebrity -- one of the points Pink
Floyd made in The Wall. But the band sounds very different than they
used to. They're a different *kind* of band with one member holding
the string tenuously together, and a lot of time between then and now.

So, does that make them the "real" Christian Death? Does it matter? I
guess that's an aesthetic decision that each listener can make for
themselves.

On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Manny <manny at garfieldartworks.com> wrote:
> just remind people of this:
> rozz did 1 record. then broke up the band.  then started it again 1
> year later w/ Valor.  many years and records go by, with both Rozz and
> Valor.
> Rozz quits.  Valor continues.....
> Rozz gets offered a ton of money to play 1 show. He says they paid me
> so much money that i had to call it Christian death.
> the promoters recorded and released the live album.
> Rozz doesnt do that again. rozz dies.
> valor still continues...
>
> remind people that SYD BARRETT was in Pink Floyd first.  is The Wall
> not the real pink floyd then?
>
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