Michael - First of all, let me apologise for not responding to your note sooner! I've been moving house this weekend, and have just now got the pieces of my life...er, computer...back together.
Without further ado, then, thank you so much for your kind words - and your story. One of the nicest things about becoming a 'public' Bob & Ray fan has been discovering the connected worlds; the people who care about them are in turn involved with other interesting things, and people. Now I get to go hunt up John Ashbery. It's great.
The Josephson collections are also great, a bit pricey but with all the funny bits neatly pre-scissored out of the mass for convenience. I do love the entire shows preserved on the bootleg collections, though, especially the very earliest Boston 'Matinee's, which feeds my ongoing fascination with their own attitude to their genius. You get a much better sense of its uniqueness:
"This has occurred to both our minds," Ray says at one point. "Our mind," Bob interrupts firmly. "Oh, yes...our mind."
Re: Your wonderful Bob & Ray article
Without further ado, then, thank you so much for your kind words - and your story. One of the nicest things about becoming a 'public' Bob & Ray fan has been discovering the connected worlds; the people who care about them are in turn involved with other interesting things, and people. Now I get to go hunt up John Ashbery. It's great.
The Josephson collections are also great, a bit pricey but with all the funny bits neatly pre-scissored out of the mass for convenience. I do love the entire shows preserved on the bootleg collections, though, especially the very earliest Boston 'Matinee's, which feeds my ongoing fascination with their own attitude to their genius. You get a much better sense of its uniqueness:
"This has occurred to both our minds," Ray says at one point. "Our mind," Bob interrupts firmly. "Oh, yes...our mind."