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| From | "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Klaatu |
| Date | Sat, 06 Oct 2007 19:20:54 -0400 |
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AT Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 14:51:13 synth wrote:
>
>Thanks to whoever started this thread for re-aquainting me w/ Klaatu... I
>got their first three albums and they are much, much better than I
>remembered.
>
>I guess that whole "Are they the Beatles" thing left a bad taste in my
>mouth back in the day... I >remember thinking it sounded "like" the
>Beatles... but I never thought it sounded like the Beatles >made that
>music. Two very different things...
The guys from Klaatu have had to live with that monkey on their back for 30
years (the first album came out in 1976 but the rumour happened in 1977).
They are grateful they got the exposure....it led to 2,000,000 copies of the
first album being sold....but they resent the fact that the world wrote them
off after the media created the hype and then decided to bury them. Only
segments of the first record and all of the second album were
"prog"....albums 3, 4 and 5 were all pop records.
Contrary to popular belief, the band was NOT part of the global frenzy that
created the Beatles hype. Capitol Records took the musings of Rhode Island
Journal writer Steve Smith and ran the field with it. I have internal memos
from Capitol Records staff in LA and Australia telling the PR people to
build the excitement through misdirection. They were offering bonus
incentives to staff members who could make the most convincing link between
the Beatles and Klaatu as part of their ongoing promo campaign. The "clues"
connecting both bands were devised by Capitol staff and fed to the media
through weekly press releases.
What was Klaatu doing during all this? Recording their second album in
England where NO ONE in the British media was buying the hype.
>Also most people I know who like Klaatu are prog-heads who are always
>trying to get me to listen >to Van de Graaf Generator or Magellan
>(shudder.)
Ironically, Magellan did a song on our 1998 Klaatu tribute disc...."Around
The Universe In 80 Minutes".
Jaimie Vernon,
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