Blog entry recovered from MySpace archive, first published Friday June 30, 2006.
Anyone brave enough for the challenge?
I've just lost a friend. I received a call about 9 hours ago telling me that a friend died of lung cancer 24 hours earlier. I then shared the task of breaking the news to other friends. She was a close friend's wife, a friend in her own right, and I was their Best Man. Not surprisingly I'm feeling more than a little morose, and wrapped up in doom and death. It reminded me of something I was discussing with Twang a short while back, which kind of links in with the Prog show last Friday with Jem Godfrey. Many bands - usually very proggy, but not always - have made concept albums based on or strongly influenced by works of classical fiction or drama (most obviously the Alan Parsons Project who made about 8 based on various things from Edgar Allen Poe - my favourite author - to Isaac Asimov - on my list of other favourites). Why is it no-one's ever tackled (to my knowledge, at least) Shakespeare's Macbeth? Surely that's ripe for the picking? Or is it just so iconic that no-one has the balls to try? Just a thought.
