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Indeedy, I was honoured to meet Anubis at an early DLCon, wish he'd return. Alphonsin is also missed by me (at least).

I miss Anubis and DDT and Slave to the Grave.

Need more posts from Cowboy Ronnie, HMBAWA, OoO & Godot. Real people with real block surface know how and gravitas.

Reports sketchy about the death at this stage. If so though, our Spaceship Roulette competition has claimed its first victim...http://www.abc.net.a...-flight/5859442 Dunno if I posted it somewhere else - like the astronauts thread - but... I read an article a while back suggesting the "spaceship roulette" problem was real. Basically pointing out that Virgin's ambitions were combining cutting edge computers and aeronautics with rocket science that wasn't keeping up. The problem being that the size of rockets in the machinery was pushing their performance to the limit. Can't Google and find it at the moment, but I'm fairly sure it was in The Guardian. As with the rocket planes 50 years ago, it might be the test pilots rather than any passengers that pay the price in development. Absolutely. As we've seen with the other rocket failure this week that technology is still fallible and stuck in the 1950s... There have only been 2 rocket systems never to have a catastrophic failure (Blue Streak and Saturn V), the things are just a (barley) controlled explosion with some poor sod sitting on top!

And Monoclinic And DDT. Now most of the DDP need to do their own research.

DeathRay, there is no way a respectable British newspaper would publish an obituary for a pornogrind artist, or whatever you call it. So this is a POINTLESS thread. No offence...

Strange thing for an East End Boy to collect though. Money > Sense Collins' sense of sense may be questionable, but his sense of making money isn't. I'm not much of a collector (apart from sins, supposedly), so I see little difference in strangeness in collecting Alamo memorabilia compared to, say, cigar bands. I do wonder how many original Bowie knives owned by Jim Bowie during the Battle of the Alamo exist, though. regards, Hein

Strange thing for an East End Boy to collect though. Money > Sense

If you go back to your wife you do not keep a framed photo of your mistress. Aye, but...unlike the other hired hands Wilson was brought in to write as well as perform, wasn't he. It might have got slated as a formless puddle of keyboard-noodling shite, but those are Wilson's lyrics on Calling All Stations, right? I think he was brought in to try and make it look like the Genesis dynamic still existed. It was probably more a case of him being allowed to contribute to the writing rather than expected to. It should probably be put down to a failed experiment. It is still on my iPod though. Wilson was hired late in the writing process so he didn't contribute much to the album - Banks and Rutherford have to take full blame for it, I am afraid. Having heard some of Wilson's solo stuff, it could have actually been worse had he been involved... I remember at the time it came out, many fans were expecting Calling All Stations to be somewhat like And Then There Were Three, since both albums were basically just Rutherford-Banks co-writes and, in the sense that both are dreadful, so they are. (Okay, to be fair, I rather like Side 2 of And Then There Were Three but I think Side 1 possibly surpasses Calling All Stations for sheer awfulness.... ) I quite like individual tracks on ATTWT Burning Rope in particular Snowbound, Scenes from a Nights Dream, Say its Alright Joe, The Lady Lies and sometimes when I am in the mood Ballad of Big. However I tend not to listen to it as an album.