Roy Harper - Goodbye

A collection of photos and avatars snagged from a couple of now-gone message boards which drew together an unlikely group of people. This slideshow is for them, but the song stands on its own merits, one of Roy's best, from the 1970 album "Flat, Baroque and Berserk".
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Well, in 2006 there was a live webcam stream from an eagles nest at Hornby Island in Canada, hosted by a company called Infotec. It was a worldwide phenomenon. There was a linked discussion board, and lots of people from all over posted there. The eggs failed to hatch that year but the board continued, and then Infotec became Wavelit and it still continued. The people were an unusual group for a message board, with little in common but the original eagles nest. They became a very dysfunctional family, with much squabbling and acrimony, though it was never dull. Eventually the Wavelit site closed and the members dispersed in cliques to other boards. There was a fin-de-siecle mood in the last week, when I put this montage together. It was kind of sad.

The first photo is Ed Clunn who owned Infotec/Wavelit, and the last one is his son Trevor, who ran the boards. In between are various of the regular contributors.

The eagles nest is still streamed here -
http://www.hancockwildlifechannel.org/staticpages/index.php/20080401010059972
and there is a link to the Hancock discussion board where a number of the people in the montage still sometimes hang out. As I write this in April 2009, there are two eggs waiting to hatch.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• roy
• harper
• flat
• baroque
• berserk
• goodbye
• wavelit
• infotec

[ticklesitter]

passer, thx for posting this, I love this song so much. But, it's driving me crazy not knowing who these people are. Please tell the story in the info section. I think if you were honoring these people it would be a great tribute to clue all the viewers into "who these people are"

[passer59]

OK, done.

[gerthie]

what lp is this from

[passer59]

From "Flat, Baroque and Berserk", originally released in 1970.

I've updated the header.

[leolevesque]

hats off to roy harper

[ticklesitter]

thanks passer. this just proves, kind people will always congregate. That's what the powers that be don't want us all to figure out, why would there ever be terrorism if we were kind and empathetic. So i say we all be consciously kind to one another, and lower the vale of unreason on this planet. ! namastai

[oldman91950]

magic a tour of emotion

[Oliverware21]

im glad i went to see him with my young son who has since taken up the guitar, at the concert he explained what the song another day was all about this was one of my favourite songs

[wolderfly]

gyönyörű. beautiful. 

[1coachking1]

Love it.

[finkployd4658]

Hats off to roy harper

[MrArdvarkz]

It's always the living who fear the idea of death...

[johnnyriggsisdead]

I've played this for tons of friends, girlfriends, etc. I always explain him with the Led Zep connection, and then say it kinda sounds like Ian Anderson listened to the saddest Nick Drake and Bill Fay songs and wrote this in a suicidal mood. Thanks for posting it. One of his best.

[puddypuss]

takes me back to these times, off the subject, Id like to say how annoying the new recommended for you imposes itself across the bottom of the screen of this video is. I know they read these comments, so lets hope they discontinue it.

[xxxBlueBeexxx]

i want the lyrics to this...pleaseeeee.....