PV speaks

[Jean Lorrah <a21711f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Professor Valley writes,

>**First of all, if any of you haven't taken a minute or two to decode
>Nathan's latest signature - When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf
>jvyy unir cevinpl. - do it now.  It is a very true statement.

Till you metioned it, I assumed it was nonsense.  But it definitely isn't!

>After listening to the LP, the remastered CDs, and many 1977 performances,
>I think the lyric is actually:
>  Flying skies of fortune each our separate way,
>  On the wings of maybe, doubting birds of prey.
>
I think it's 
        Blind eyes of fortune, each our separate way,
        On the wings of maybe, downing birds of prey.

We're talking about "fortune" and "maybe" here, that is, blind chance.  Even
birds of prey can be brought down (in nature smaller birds are seen to gang
up on the raptors and at least drive them off if not bring them down).  If
the first line really is about flying the skies of fortune, this still makes
sense.

One thing you're definitely right about:  it sure is hard to make out what
Robert is singing except for "fortune," "wings of maybe," and "birds of prey"!

>why did the boys push the BBC release back?  Why not earlier?

Because it won't hurt to have an extra week of advertising and news releases
before it comes out, but at this late date it's not possible to get that
started a week early.  For example, not a magazine on the stands at this
moment has a word about the BBC release, but you can bet that the issues
coming out in the next three weeks will have plenty of info about it.

What they are probably hoping for is big advance sales so that the album
will debut on the charts.  Up against Kiss and all the rest fighting it out
in that one week everyone picked, it could get lost in the pack.  Released a
week early without pre-publicity (the whole world is not on this list, no
matter what we may think of the relative importance of our membership), it
could get lost completely--and then overwhelmed by that pack of releases the
following week just when word of mouth was getting out.  

It looks as if someone is trying to do the best salvage job possible to
rectify an unfortunate marketing glitch.  Jean

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