- Included in the Under Appreciated Rock List.
- BLAIR 1523, a psychedelic rock band from a village in Cornwall who had broken up before their album came out.
- The Original Facebook Post about BLAIR 1523 is at: Original Facebook Posts / Sep 2013 / BLAIR 1523.
Martin Winfree published a note.
September 1, 2013 ·
UNDER-APPRECIATED ROCK BAND OF THE MONTH FOR SEPTEMBER 2013: BLAIR 1523
Before I began writing the Under-Appreciated Rock Band of the Month posts, I wrote several articles in Wikipedia. I was aware of Wikipedia for several years before I ever visited the site, and it is a most intriguing idea: an encyclopedia that was available for editing to anybody who felt like doing so. (There are some restrictions, however, for highly contentious topics such as “evolution”). I am still not sure I understand quite how that is accomplished, particularly considering the sheer volume of “contributions” made by Wikipedians on a daily basis.
My interest in Wikipedia was piqued by several stunts fomented by Stephen Colbert on his show The Colbert Report. In one famous incident, “The Wørd” on July 31, 2006 was “Wikiality”; Colbert explained that on Wikipedia, “any user can change any entry, and if enough users agree with them, it becomes true.” He then encouraged his viewers to modify the Wikipedia entry on “elephants” to state: “Elephant population in Africa has tripled over the past six months”. The changes mounted by the “Colbert nation” spread to other pachyderm-related articles: African forest elephant, African bush elephant, Babar the elephant, white elephant, Dumbo, etc.
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Martin Winfree
September 1, 2013 ·
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The Under-Appreciated Rock Band of the Month for September 2013 is BLAIR 1523, a psychedelic rock band from a village in Cornwall who had broken up before their album came out. It has been a long-time favorite; read all about them in my Notes:
Ginger Travis
Where do you FIND these bands?!
Steve Murray
do an article on CACTUS
Martin Winfree
🙂 A lot of them I find in used record stores; and a lot of them I order online, mostly from Bomp! Records, like this one. I usually haven’t heard anything by them when I get the album – but something about the description online or the album cover will just grab me. Sometimes it turns out to be a dud, but not that often surprisingly. I like mainstream rock also, but finding a great unknown band really grabs me. It sure has been a lot of fun over the years! 🙂
Martin Winfree
Cactus wouldn’t count as Under-Appreciated unfortunately (they are written up in Wikipedia), but at least two of my Cactus albums have recently surfaced from the Katrina clean-up. There are a lot of heavy hitters that have been in that group, so I will try to look for a connection of some kind so that I can do a piece on them. Good idea, Steve!
Martin Winfree
November 8, 2021 ·
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Somehow, one of my Under Appreciated Rock Band posts got skipped, so here it is: A great British psychedelic rock revival band called Blair 1523.