Wow,

That's amazing, I had no idea those existed on the internet! The rip of Rainbow
Thunder is
very high quality indeed, except i'm having the usual difficulty getting the
.ogg files to play
in anything other than audacity, useless plugins aside. The music is
fascinating, amazing,
brilliant, weird, as usual. As for the BFBS recording, what a find! I'm going to
be obsessing
over that for a while I reckon.

Thanks a lot for the tip-offs, and taking the time to upload them to rapidshare.
If anything
else Basho-related comes your way on soulseek or otherwise I'd love to know.

Cheers!
Robbie





--- In robbiebasho_forum@yahoogroups.com, Will Dawson <wjdawson@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Robbie.
>
> I found a rip of Rainbow Thunder through Soulseek a few years ago now.
> It's in Ogg Vorbis format and quite high quality. (The music is pretty
> high quality too ..!)
>
> I've uploaded it to rapidshare:
>
> http://rapidshare.com/files/31884502/robbie_basho_-_rainbow_thunder.zip.html
>
> If you haven't heard it, you'll also be interested in the following:
>
> http://rapidshare.com/files/31875768/robbie_basho_-_bfbs_-_nightflight_-
_1980-11-23.zip.html
>
> It's a radio recording from the British Forces Broadcasting Service radio
> station in Germany, 1980. The host is Alan Bangs, who introduces the John
> Fahey Rockpalast video, if you've seen that. It consists of an interview
> with Basho and a couple of songs live and recorded.. essential listening!
> It was actually broadcast the day before the live performance that was on
> 'Grown So Ugly' took place. Unfortunately it's cut short, but we probably
> don't miss much.. It was also found in the Soulseek sea of rarities.
>
> Enjoy..
>
> Will
>
>
> On Thu, 17 May 2007, Robbie Dawson wrote:
>
> > First of all, a big welcome to all the new members here. There are 20 of us
now. As
ever, if
> > anyone has any queries, information, guitar tips, etc., please don't
hesitate to post it
here.
> > That's what this forum is for.
> >
> > Summer's almost here, which means things should get moving again after a
very
hectic
> > academic year. This means more promises about guitar transcriptions and, as
ever,
halting
> > investigation into current Basho-related mysteries and mix-ups.
> >
> > Some of you may be aware that Vanguard, who released Voice of the Eagle and
Zarthus back
> > in the day, have announced digital 'Vanguard Vaults' digital itunes reissues
of these
albums
> > PLUS a first ever release of a never before heard/heard of album entitled
Indian II, or
India II.
> > That was a few months ago now, and sure enough VOT is up there. As for the
other
two, no
> > such luck yet.
> >
> > A nice copy of Rainbow Thunder (Basho's rare 1981 lp) just went on ebay for
$213.50.
Is
> > there anyone on here that has heard this, or has a copy of it? I'd dearly
love to hear it!
> >
> > Best wishes to all,
> > Robbie
>