Willard Grant Conspiracy- related...pretty cool

tentoze

tentoze

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WGC is one of my favorite newer artists from the last several years. The main force of the group is frontman Robert Fisher, with a large rotating support group of players from album to album. Fisher normally mines haunted places for the subjects of his songs, and performs them with a voice that reaches biblical proportions at times.

A couple days ago, I stumbled onto the fact that WGC had a new release that I hadn't heard about, so I ordered it straight from their website, and sat back to wait for the mailman. This afternoon, I got an email from Mr. Fisher himself, thanking me for the order. That's pretty fine customer service.
 
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Very cool. One of the neat features of the 'net...making it easy to communicate with people you never figured you'd be communicating with.
 
opt80 said:
Amazon has it,with a 3 week waiting period.I guess cause it is an import
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The WGC website has a link to non-import price- $15 shipped. And Robert said my order was sent to the factory today, in the mail in 2-3 days.
 
Very cool. WGC is a phenomenal (spelling? my brain is fried after the day I had today) band. I'm quite sure I'm logging off here to go spend $15. Thanks for the info.

JD
 
Looks like I'm going to have to save a few bucks, too, and get this new WGC. Thanks for turning me on to this aggregation (group is perhaps not the best word), Eric!
 
A little grass-roots campaigning never hurt a thing! If artistic quality and integrity had any place in the music biz, Mr. Fisher wouldn't have to work a day job.
 
You are right on the mark telling people about this band. If you get the chance, go see them live, absolutely stunning!
Robert fisher was a nice guy to chat too as well.
 
WGC is on a very short list of groups that I would commit despicable crimes to have the chance to see them perform.
 
Say Eric,
Is the new release you ordered on Vinyl or CD or either ?

And whats the story behind the band name ?
 
Sluggo said:
Say Eric,
Is the new release you ordered on Vinyl or CD or either ?

And whats the story behind the band name ?
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CD only, as far as I know. With the small production quantities involved, I suspect that a vinyl run might get expensive.

From what I recall reading several years ago, the origin of the band's name is something like this: There is no one named Willard Grant, and no conspiracy, to speak of. When the group was first getting started, Fisher and a couple other band members lived in an area of Boston known as the Willard Grant, referring, I think, to a colonial-era land grant made to someone named Willard. I believe Fisher said he threw "Conspiracy" on the end of Willard Grant just on the spur of the moment.
 
Thanks to Toze I just grabbed WGC's 'Let it Roll' at a local community radio station record sale for a couple of bucks. I like it. I was pleased to see that it features Twang Punker Steve Wynn from The Suspects and Dream Syndicate.
 
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