Old Enough to Forget

The first time I recall seeing Curt Cress' name in the credits was on SAGA's Wildest Dreams back in '87. Who was this guy and where was Steve ... for that matter what happened to Jim? His name would pop up again on SAGA's much maligned (I love it) '89 follow up The Beginner's Guide To Throwing Shapes.  I have a couple of other albums with Chris. Pete Schilling's song "Major Tom (Coming Home)" and Far Corporation, the brainchild of Frank Farian featured Curt on drums. Reading up on Curt he's been on literally thousands and thousands of recordings over the years. He is a monster player who knows what he's doing. Curt Cress - Clan, or CCC, or Curt Cress Clan was released in Germany in 1975 on Atlantic Records when he was twenty three years old. When this was released he was already a seasoned professional who'd been playing professionally since his early teens. I managed to find a wonderfully pristine copy in a small shop in Vernon BC of...

SAGA is one of my favourite bands hands down. Having said that, I'm not as obsessive as a true die hard. I mean I never poured over the lyrics trying to pieces together The Chapters but I did make a point of getting The Chapters Live when the band put the songs out in chronological order.  Living in Canada the opportunities to see the band live are few, so I settled for the live DVDs the band released. I did get to see them in a festival setting they were on second after Haywire (oh how I wished Ian and Paul would have done a song together, oh well) on one of the hottest days of the summer. It was as Eric Idle would say, "Hot enough to boil a monkey's bum." Anyway this is all just prattle, but it's sort of relevant ...I think.  Back to the obsessive comment, while I may not be a die hard who has to dissect everything into little pieces, I am a completest and when I get into something, I generally don't go in half way, if I like it - I want it all. With SAGA t...