I remember that album, were he shows the back of it, around the 3:51 mark. I saw that at a pawn shop several years ago, however, I did not buy it, mainly due to the lead singers boy shorts... Just did not look right. Wish I would have bought it now.
Has anyone else noticed how often in these interviews the performers mention how badly they want to play these songs live on stage? Or in a theater? Mr. Lucek even knows which instruments could be used to do it. Everyone seems hungry to see what would happen to this music in a live setting. His suggestion that it would start conventionally, with band members onstage and the actors singing....man, what would it be like if they took the stage looking like normal rock musicians, everyone picks up their instuments and the overture starts with singers onstage, and everyone is confused because they heard this was a mind-trip of a show and yet it's a pretty conventional rock so so far....then something goes wrong. Probably involving purple light, dry ice, and a trapdoor that makes the band vanish from the stage as the stangely-angled set-pieces start rising... Then a spotlight finds the priest and the man huddled in the corner of the stage and it's time to start the party.
You're right about the stage setting. I can imagine a proscenium arch depicting Lovecraftian monsters and strange symbols...also might be queerly angled as well. In fact, ALL of the sets could be strangely angled. It would fit in with the story very well. The second track could be done with a revolving stage very effectively, with the grotesque cross-sectioned house looming darkly in the background. When Keziah begins to sing, the lights turn violet and freeze on her, dimming on the rest of the stage. She is standing in the attic or on the roof. When "You'll suffer fevered dreams/In the Witch House" is sung (by her, the lights return to Father Iwanicki and Elwood, continuing the story. This seems to me like a show with a lot of smoke/fog/mist, particularly the last. But that's probably just my imagination, where everything looks clouded. Then again, the dreams are the world of the mind, so mist might be very effective. The proscenium could have disorienting colors that are always on the edge of my mind's eye view.
They definitely wanted a live show from this. I remember being at a Lovecraft Film festival in San Pedro and they were there promoting the album which had not been released yet. The woman who is the witch was telling Brian Yuzna that he was GOING to go to the show, being in her character. I don't know if this is still a thing or if everything that's happened ended it?
I remember that guitar!!!! I took lessons from Doug for years in Enfield CT in the 80's
Cool interview, really love Doug's guitar playing.
he is the king
I remember that album, were he shows the back of it, around the 3:51 mark.
I saw that at a pawn shop several years ago, however, I did not buy it, mainly due to the lead singers boy shorts... Just did not look right.
Wish I would have bought it now.
I really like this lad, he speaks so kind nad is just cool :) Anyway, I really like the whole W.A.S.P. lineup these days.
Has anyone else noticed how often in these interviews the performers mention how badly they want to play these songs live on stage? Or in a theater? Mr. Lucek even knows which instruments could be used to do it. Everyone seems hungry to see what would happen to this music in a live setting.
His suggestion that it would start conventionally, with band members onstage and the actors singing....man, what would it be like if they took the stage looking like normal rock musicians, everyone picks up their instuments and the overture starts with singers onstage, and everyone is confused because they heard this was a mind-trip of a show and yet it's a pretty conventional rock so so far....then something goes wrong. Probably involving purple light, dry ice, and a trapdoor that makes the band vanish from the stage as the stangely-angled set-pieces start rising... Then a spotlight finds the priest and the man huddled in the corner of the stage and it's time to start the party.
I know I wanna see it onstage.
Really.
Really badly.
You're right about the stage setting. I can imagine a proscenium arch depicting Lovecraftian monsters and strange symbols...also might be queerly angled as well. In fact, ALL of the sets could be strangely angled. It would fit in with the story very well.
The second track could be done with a revolving stage very effectively, with the grotesque cross-sectioned house looming darkly in the background. When Keziah begins to sing, the lights turn violet and freeze on her, dimming on the rest of the stage. She is standing in the attic or on the roof. When "You'll suffer fevered dreams/In the Witch House" is sung (by her, the lights return to Father Iwanicki and Elwood, continuing the story.
This seems to me like a show with a lot of smoke/fog/mist, particularly the last. But that's probably just my imagination, where everything looks clouded. Then again, the dreams are the world of the mind, so mist might be very effective. The proscenium could have disorienting colors that are always on the edge of my mind's eye view.
They definitely wanted a live show from this. I remember being at a Lovecraft Film festival in San Pedro and they were there promoting the album which had not been released yet. The woman who is the witch was telling Brian Yuzna that he was GOING to go to the show, being in her character. I don't know if this is still a thing or if everything that's happened ended it?
Blair Witch Project
Love it! \w/ \w/