a message from Christian Death's booking agent

[Manny]

that's what I said. go to the myspace and make your decision.

but your point is slightly off.
  The Wall and Dark Side of the Moon are WAY different than Piper at 
Gates of Dawn.
Abacab and Mama are SOMEWHAT different than Lamb Lies Down.
Although both stayed in the same genre, both went in a slicker 
direction.

In that respect, the analogy also holds for Christian Death.
What Valor is doing now is certainly goth, but different goth than Only 
Theatre of Pain or even Scriptures. It's not different enough, however, 
that someone *outside* the goth scene could really detect it easily.

On Jun 6, 2008, at 2:40 PM, Jeremy wrote:

> 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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