Memories of Quichotte

[NAVEL OF LIGHT]

I remember walking into the fairly new Virgin Megastore in Oxford Street as a young student when the megastore was the place to go for rare and imported stuff...i had recently recieved from TD a signed postcard. EF, CF and a new recruit Paul Haslinger with a discography on the reverse.
There were only two albums on there i hadnt heard of...Legend and Pergamon. Well the megastore had Pergamon on vinyl and they also had listening booths...one of the first stores to have them as i remember. So i took Pergamon to the counter and asked the assistant if i could hear it. I took the P!££ if im honest and heard both sides!!
As it was an import on both cassette and vinyl it was pretty expensive and as a 'poor' student there was no way i could afford it.
(think it was around £17 and this was in '86~87).

Well i have two copies of Pergamon on my shelf now. The one i bought for about £20 on Caroline Records which is pretty simular to the virgin release and a more recent one on the Castle label with some interesting sleeve notes.

Wonder where the film footage went? Would love to see even the smallest clip of this show.

[Chris Monk]

I have similar memories of buying my first copy of Pergamon. I got it from the Virgin Megastore in Bristol and, like you, I was a student at the time and had to save up for ages before I could afford it. I was determined to get a copy though because I'd also heard it in the listening booth and was knocked out by it.

[sparrow]

I bought it locally for a whopping 17 pounds. I knew nothing about the album and had to tap me dad for the money. I still have it along with the castle CD and the original Amiga LP. I still love the album and like Logos should've been a double. There's always the Staatsgrenze West boot to accompany Quichotte but although the quality isn't bad an official release would have been better.

[24db]

My copy was sent to me from East Germany after several failed attempts to get it from Lotus records over here. Not bad, but it isn't really a favourite of mine, bar the guitar and synth solos

[wayfarer]

Pergamon was one of the CDs I bought as a catch up during the period 1999-2003. I reckon I must have found it at Sister Ray or one of the other Berwick Street shops in London, at that time. More likely, though, I found it going on ebay for a reasonable price.

I love the Tangram/Wavelength piano bit.

[tdream88]

It's my first TD album and I bought it in 1986 in K7 format (audio tape). I listened it more than one hundred times! The feeling of listen it in a subway is a great experience Yah! dREaM oN!!!

[wayfarer]

Listening to Part One, Last FM records Pergamon as a Christopher Franke composition, not TD!

[jacob]

I've written a little feature on the 'Staatsgrenze West' bootleg.

http://iloapp.pertou.dk/blog/tangerined ... e&post=391

[jacob]

Also added, is a post on 'Quichotte'

http://iloapp.pertou.dk/blog/tangerined ... e&post=392

[hansx]

I've written a little feature on the 'Staatsgrenze West' bootleg.

http://iloapp.pertou.dk/blog/tangerined ... e&post=391

nice piece.

[Froesesque]

Yeah, great album. I have this on CD, I love Edgars massive guitar solo on part 2. What happened there?? Did Chris and Johannes leave the sequencers going and leave for a cuppa??????