Their 1970 eponymous debut finds that sound in an embryonic state, a murky head-screw of an album that sets Clinton's crazed, cosmic and carnal philosophising to lumbering heavy-funk jams doused liberally with echo and effects – a sound as wild as their stage show, with Clinton and his cohort dressed like hippies from Saturn.
In his bio at Christian Book Previews, Mike explains the new direction of the series, which now dives into those murky waters head first: Over the years, my parents and I often heard from Christian families how much they appreciate the values-based themes of our books.
Its opening sequence – in which Jeremy went from a murky London to heading a Mad Max-style phalanx of supercars in California – had the pleasingly petulant sense of a show flashing the BBC a backwards finger "L" on its forehead, saying "look at all the money we've got".
I'm pleased that the show has kept hold of the morally murky Senator Lockhart, now head of the CIA, whose introduction was one of the few bright spots of last season.
The result: crisp and stark portraits picked out of murky blackness -- just heads, no longer cityscapes, the surroundings now blocked by the scaffolding.
They include Brigadier Gordon Kerr, now the British military attache in Beijing, who in 1989 headed the murky military intelligence operation in Northern Ireland, the Force Research Unit.
The why remains a little murky by the end (heads up: slight spoilers beyond here).
Schippers, understandably, did not want to head towards that murky alley.
"I think most evangelicals don't preach it, precisely because they realise it's a bit murky, a bit complex," Justin Thacker, head of theology at the Evangelical Alliance told me.
The sex scenes in these last two segments are calculated to draw attention as they head toward that murky line between respectable cable and cable-in-the-middle-of-the-night.
