{"id":2016,"date":"2012-08-28T08:44:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T12:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=2016"},"modified":"2012-08-28T08:44:38","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T12:44:38","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-243-roach-days-revisited-no-more-gravity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/08\/28\/my-musical-evolution-part-243-roach-days-revisited-no-more-gravity\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution – Part 243 Roach Days Revisited No More Gravity"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Billy<\/a>During The Roach Days<\/em>, \u00a0a guy named Chuck who used to play drums for us, introduced us to some good music.\u00a0 Billy Thorpe’s Children Of The Sun<\/em> was among them.\u00a0 There was an allure to Children Of The Sun<\/em> it might have been the story. It could have been the music. It might even have been that it was damn near impossible to find.<\/p>\n

The story at the time was that Billy Thorpe<\/em> had created this space opera called Children Of The Sun<\/em>,\u00a0 the record company pressed a fairly small run then suddenly went out of business.\u00a0 The rights to the album were legally tied up for a long time.\u00a0 I haven’t done any research to verify any of this, just telling it like I heard it.<\/p>\n

I eventually found a copy at the Wooden Nickel Collector’s Store which specialized in previously owned and hard to find stuff.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It was used but it good condition.\u00a0 For a long time, I was the person in our crowd that had the elusive Children Of The Sun<\/em> album.\u00a0 I cannot help but think of how the internet has solved so many of these problems.<\/p>\n

For a long time, I was really enthralled by the song Children Of The Sun<\/em>.\u00a0 It had that space alien element in the lyrics. It had spacey effects mixed in with the music.\u00a0 The music didn’t seem overly complex and there were any really screaming\u00a0 guitar parts but something about it connected to me.<\/p>\n

The rest of the album was OK but\u00a0 it never got the attention of the title track.\u00a0 In the 1990’s I found Children Of The Sun…Revisited<\/em>. \u00a0It was a reworked version that had replaced half of the songs. Basically they dropped side one of the original vinyl and added 4 new ones to the end.<\/p>\n

The songs aren’t bad to listen to but they just don’t seem to grab you like Children Of The Sun<\/em> although East Of Eden’s Gate<\/em> stands out to me.<\/p>\n

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Children Of The Sun<\/em>
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