It's pouring down outside. Just right for this pensive track from Budgie on their wonderful SQWARK album 1972, YOUNG IS A WORLD. BTW the cool rocket-skull jet on the LP cover is by Roger Dean, cover art meastro of the Seventies. He made a model first. Some of his other models include toy elephants with tank heads! His art book 'Views' is one my most prized posessions from my teenage years along with the similar 'Studio' showcasing Berni Wrightson and other young artists. As for Budgie, they were my rock hero's back then and I thought Tony Bourge was the best lead guitarist I'd ever heard and similarly Burke Shelley on bass on vocals [the drummer I remember is Pete Boot - also brill]. I knew every riff and lyric up to either If I were Brittania I'd Waive the Rules or Bandolier, whichever was the later LP. Sadly I know nothing after that, which is how it went for all my fave bands. I just stopped at a certain point. Is that the same for everyone?
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And of you noticed the rear of that skullcraft is a Lockheed Blackbird. :)
I'm surprised you didn't mention the Blackbird, Woodsy. And yes, it was much the same for me. Different bands, but there was a similar cut-off point. Think it happened when I got married.
Maybe Roger Dean used a Spacex 'blackbird' for his model. I'll have to look in views. Well spotted Paul. Funny how Music comes and goes in our lives. I used to be completely up to date and buy a CD now and then - last one was probably the White Stripes Elephant as I'm guitars-hooked. But I've sort of given up tryinmg to stay informed. The music in my head is my back-catalogue of old and nothing can replace it. I love to listen to old classics I never heard at the time - on You Tube - like September Girlz by Big Star or Lay Down by the Strawbs, which I'm humming to right now! the next seam I'll mine is proto-punk like early Velvets, MC5 and New York Dolls. Lay down, ah, lay me down....
I think he used a much larger one, as it's a real birds head, so the model is maybe a 1:48th thing....Aurora, Revell? I don't know my kits well!
'Fizedsta'...a carnival in which the participants are ritually sacrificed to the Goddess of Spring at the end of the ceremony?
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