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Раскопки c93 @ yahoogroups.com показали следующее:

На концерте 5 декабря в October Gallery Тибет пел новый материал, который скорее всего войдёт в бурно обсуждаемый будущий альбом.
Первая песня не тибетская. Она идентифицируется как "The Time of the Last Persecution" by Bill Fay.
Bill Fay — это такая пальцем деланая английская версия Боба Дилана образца самого начала семидесятых. Откуда Тибет его выкопал, не вполне понятно.
Но насколько же эта самая песня органично выглядит в исполнении Тибета! Прямо как родная! Христианские мученики, Цезарь, Апокалипсис, Христос и все дела. Легко обмануться.
К последней песне "Antichrist and Barcodes" Тибет тоже приделал хвост из семидесятнической музыки — на этот раз какую-то попсу. You always, как говорится, get back to the basics.
Чтение Yahoo! Groups удивительно раздражает, ибо перед каждым сообщением попадаешь на страницу с рекламой кошачьего корма Friskies.

Here is the unofficial setlist:

The Time of the Last Persecution (by Bill Fay)
Black Flowers Please
It's the Fire Next Time (?)
A Gothic Love Song
Antichrist and Barcodes
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Under the Moon of Love (by Showaddywaddy)

AMG on Bill Fay

Obscure British singer/songwriter Bill Fay made a couple of albums in the early '70s that matched oblique sub-Dylanesque songwriting with unusual arrangements, though it didn't add up to anything notable. Fay had actually done his first single, "Some Good Advice"/"Screams in the Ears," for Deram back in 1967, produced by early Donovan co-manager Peter Eden. The single introduced his characteristic downbeat melodies and scrambled impressionistic lyrics, though with somewhat more pop-oriented production and melodies than those heard on his albums.

It wouldn't be until 1970 that his self-titled debut appeared. Bill Fay is an odd and not particularly good record, in large part because his songwriting has the obvious ambition of song-poets like Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, but not nearly as much talent. His hoarse, thin singing is also obviously Dylan-influenced, but like fellow Dylan acolyte David Blue, he had the tendency to go distressingly off-key. There was a bit of the British lilting storytelling style to his songwriting, in the path of Al Stewart, Donovan, and Nick Drake, but these traits were far subordinate to the inchoate Dylanisms. Twee orchestral arrangements figure strongly on the record, as if to cover up for some of the artist's vocal deficiencies. His second LP, Time of the Last Persecution (from 1971), was similar in its songwriting, but far more straightforward and rock-oriented in its production, and more conventionally accomplished in its vocal delivery. Though still not noteworthy, it was definitely better than its predecessor, and sometimes enlivened by unexpectedly gnarly rock guitar.