Talk:Imaginos/Archives/2015

Albert Bouchard
Braka (talk) 17:21, 18 January 2010 (UTC)This a devilishly confusing record, but pretty obviously was meant to be an Albert Bouchard solo album, compressing Sandy Pearlman's 3-LP 'Imaginos' concept into a single CD/LP. Numerous reasons are given for the bewildering cavalcade of musicians present on the final product, but they seem mainly to revolve around Columbia/CBS's refusal to release a Bouchard solo album, and Bouchard/BOC's refusal to work with each other.

Nevertheless, the current entry states that the album was released by BOC 'without Bouchard's involvement', when the liner notes state he contributes 'guitar, percussion and vocals', and he is conspicuously the main musical writer.

I know A. Bouchard's drumming (and have in fact been in contact with him from time to time), and there is no way that the drums on this album are played by him. There is nothing of his subtle, virtuoustic, subtle skins-work - however he was always a guitarist for BOC, and the guitar part is plausible (although there are about 10 guitarists cited in the credits).

Can we emphatically say that Albert Bouchard does not appear on what was, after all, supposed to be an Albert Bouchard album?

Braka (talk) 17:21, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Don't know about that, but Al *did* do his own demo of the project and, as you might imaginos, it eventually found it's way to the Internet. Google 42bece8d4590d887ead813849560c9bf3a7b99f2.

99.74.74.182 (talk) 16:48, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

About sources
The Musicians' Olympus website is a copyrighted reference site administred by Miguel Terol. The same info can be obtained from the LP sleeves of the cited musicians, so I changed the refernces accordingly. Raffaella Berry, whose blog is used as source for criticism of the album, is a frequent collaborator of professional prog music websites as Prog-sphere, Power of Prog and DPRP. She is not connected to BÖC or Columbia records and I think that she can be considered a reliable author in expressing her opinion on the album. Regarding the opinions expressed in Prog Archives and The Bodisatthva Beat websites, they should be considered fans reviews, so I changed the sentence to accomodate them. Finally, the Prog Archives review has been eliminated from the Critical Reception section. Lewismaster (talk) 19:09, 11 June 2012 (UTC)


 * I felt that Prog Archives and Metal Archives were both valid fan review sources. Dementia13 (talk) 01:06, 12 June 2012 (UTC)