Ah hell....I guess it's time for Satchmo to go Satchmo.
Technically, they took the name from
Stan Tracey's song of the same name, off his record "
Jazz Suite Inspired by Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood".
Tracy and
Crimson took the title from
Thomas.
Under Milk Wood was originally a play for the radio by
Thomas....thus called "A Play for Voices".
It's from the opening paragraph (first sentence to be precise) by the "First Voice".
"To begin at the beginning:
It is spring, moonless night in the small town,
starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters''-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea. The houses are blind as moles (though moles see fine tonight in the snouting, velvet dingles) or blind as Captain Cat there in the muffled middle by the pump and the town clock, the shops in mourning, the Welfare Hall in widows' weeds. And all the people of the lulled and dumbfound town are sleeping now."
Acid Mothers & Temple released a recording that was
a lot more interesting this year, which pays homage to
Crimson and
Sabbath....called
Starless And Bible Black Sabbath.
And spam is always useless and nowhere near interesting.
Having said that....
Now excuse me, while I go cough up another lung.
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