# Gormenghast: The Rock Opera

*The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 02 Jul 2001*

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### Dan Parmenter
*02 Jul 2001, 17:14*

Disclaimer:

I haven't yet read Gormenghast, though it's "on the list".

I didn't watch the TV show yet because I prefer to read things before
I see any film/TV adaptation and I figure it won't be too hard to
track down a copy of the film when I do finally read the book.

But I wanted to alert the truly curious to another adaptation of
Gormenghast, namely the "rock opera" version.  The sample tracks I
downloaded didn't do a thing for me, although the composer, Irmin
Schmidt, is a musician I very much admire as one of the founders of
the seventies-era German rock band CAN, which this stuff sounds
nothing like at all!

Go to:

http://www.spoonrecords.com/

And follow the Gormenghast links for information and downloadable
extracts.

Dan

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### Adam Stephanides
*02 Jul 2001, 22:49 · follows Dan Parmenter*

Somewhere in storage I have an anthology of rare psychedelic rock from the
60s which includes a track by a group called, iirc, Steerpike, which
released a concept album whose concept was that Steerpike was the true hero
of the Gormenghast books.  I have no recollection whatever of what the track
sounded like.

--Adam

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