Here is a link to some narration from Christopher Lee and Mary Hopkins singing
Sunday, 17 May 2020
Concept Albums and same period ,different scales
In these lockdown days I have been musing on music as much as listening to it. One thing I have been thinking about was the Concept Album. Perhaps they generate strong pro or anti feelings within you. For Some of us they were and are part of our musical diet. Today I have chosen one based upon the fantasy novel of the same name by Lord Dunsany. The album cover is very attractive and atmospheric and the musicians involved tell the story well.
Secondly as I set up the game below I thought about how I collect/ game Middle Earth in a number of scales- 28mm using Vendel , copplestone etc, 25mm using Minifigs Mythical Earth, 25mm Games Workshop which enables me to play against others more readily and a collection I started when the figures first came out around 17 or so years ago. Finally some 10mm figures for so skirmishes. What periods do you duplicate, if any?
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Interesting looking album Tradgardmastare and new to me which is great! I'll have a look at the clip later. An album from my past is Bo Hansson's music inspired by LoTR from about 1970 - here's a bit
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I do have fantasy figures in multiple scales - I keep meaning to reduce my collection but always end up with more instead of less!
I know the music of Bo Hansson well. His lotr work is very evocative of time and place, I also liked the Magicians Hat and had the lp prior to giving them all to charity as we were running out of space. Interestingly two of my daughters have taken to vinyl both old and new and are collecting modestly.
DeleteHi Alan- Duplicating eras in different scales isn't something I do. More usual is the amount of funds that I have - always finding that I can only do the one project at a time - and more often I've sold Collections just so I could invest in something new. Cheers. KEV.
ReplyDeleteI have deliberately sold off anything that duplicates in another scale and concentrate on one scale for each period. I also went through a few years ago and sold off duplictae skirmish periods - so Pirates because I already have Three Musketeers, various "shooting" periods as I have a large Gangster collection, etc.
ReplyDeleteI am interested in too many eras already to duplicate collections within them!
In once sense I am envious of your single mindedness. To be honest the Mythical Earth project has been built up over many years as a nostalgia thing, the 10mm stuff is for the Portable Wargame only not massed battles and was an attempt to game in a busy household and life that is no longer there if you know what I mean. The GW stuff has been bought very cheaply relatively speaking and would be the one I could most readily get rid off. I am not really attached to it emotionally nor do I really particularly like the way Middle Earth is portrayed in many of the figures but it is good for Lion Rampant against a friends forces. I have bags of plastic goblins if I fancy doing anything with it. I haven’t added to this collection in ages. The 28mm stuff is for skirmishes, Portable Wargame, solo roleplay. Based around Vendel figures, Copplestne hobbits ans the resin SCA fellows with so other bits and bobs. It looks more like I envisage ME. So I guess that what I a, saying is that my ME collections meet different gaming and aesthetic needs. Offering me gaming options both social and solo set in an immersive world.
DeleteBeing of the era when concept albums were fashionable and especially anything that linked them to Tolkein and the like I was always envious of the late great Tony Bath and his Hyboria concept. It was a wonderful achievement. My favourite concept album still remains Ogdens Nut Gone Flake by the Small Faces. A classic that wasnt as popular as it should have been.
ReplyDeleteI shall listen to it this week, it is new to me.
DeleteHi Alan, an interesting post. First thing I thought is that album cover is by Jimmy Cauty? I have a Lord of the Rings poster by him. Periods I duplicate... LOTR, in 15mm, 25mm, 28mm (in 2 styles, GW official, and other makes) and 54mm ( got all figures figures in these scales to fight Pelennor Fields, sadly not painted). Marlburian in 15mm, 20mm 54mm. Warhammer armies in 10mm and 28mm and I'd like to do Italian wars in 40mm as well as 28mm, but doubt I ever will. Classic concept album, The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony by Greenslade ...
ReplyDeleteI think it is by him. I had the same poster and it defined the look of the main characters from LOTR for me . It had orcs as if in a tunnel climbing up as the border round it. I had other posters by him , Glastonbury Tor for one thing and perhaps Avebury?
DeleteI like Greenslade and had a number of their LPs on prerecorded tapes. Do tell a little more of your 54mm Lotr figures?
Now you mention them, I had the Avebury and Glastonbury posters too, but had completely forgotten about them. I collected a pile of figures to do Pelennor fields in 54mm, a mix of all sorts. The Rohirrim will be converted HAT mounted Celts for instance, Haradrim are Britain's Deetail Saracens . Finding Orcs in that scale is the hardest part. Whether I'll paint th remains to be seen.
DeleteI've just read Jimmy Cauty's wiki entry.... I never realized he was one of The Orb, whose music I was into in the 90s.
DeleteLooks like a great album... Christopher Lee and Frankie Miller, what's not to like!
ReplyDeleteWell worth a listen Alastair.
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