{"id":26015,"date":"2023-09-23T05:30:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T09:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=26015"},"modified":"2026-06-08T07:12:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T11:12:33","slug":"update-whats-the-big-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/23\/update-whats-the-big-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: What&#8217;s the Big Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>UPDATE: The book is available now. &#8212; bk<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I began work on my third music-related book a few months ago. I\u2019ll be delivering the finished manuscript for <i>What\u2019s The Big Idea: 30 Great Concept Albums<\/i> to my publisher (HoZac Books) next spring, and the book is scheduled for publication in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Work is progressing nicely, and while I\u2019m keeping the specific subjects under wraps until each is in the bag (so to speak), at this stage I can reveal some of what readers will find within the book. Each chapter focuses upon one artist and conceptual\/thematically-unified album, and is based on interviews with relevant parties.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Apples in Stereo<\/strong> &#8211; <em>Travellers in Space and Time<\/em>, 2010 (interview: Robert Schneider)<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-26016\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/big_idea.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/big_idea.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/big_idea-293x300.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/li>\n<li><strong>Camper Van Beethoven<\/strong> \u2013 <i>New Roman Times<\/i>, 2004 (interview: David Lowery)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Captain Sensible<\/strong> \u2013 <i>The Universe of Geoffrey Brown<\/i>, 1993 (interviews: Captain Sensible, Martin Newell)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chad and Jeremy<\/strong> \u2013 <i>Of Cabbages and Kings<\/i>, 1967 (interview: Jeremy Clyde)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Church<\/strong> \u2013 <i>The Hypnogogue<\/i>, 2023 (interview: Steve Kilbey)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Coolies<\/strong> \u2013 <i>Doug<\/i>, 1988 (interview: Rob Gal)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Drive-By Truckers<\/strong> \u2013 <i>Southern Rock Opera<\/i>, 2001 (interview: Patterson Hood)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gentle Giant<\/strong> \u2013 <em>Three Friends<\/em>, 1972 (interview: Derek Shulman)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Grobschnitt<\/strong> \u2013 <i>Rockpommel\u2019s Land<\/i>, 1977 (interview: Eroc)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hawkwind<\/strong> &#8211; <em>The Machine Stops<\/em>, 2016 (interview: Dave Brock, Kris Tait)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Hold Steady<\/strong> \u2013 <i>Separation Sunday<\/i>, 2005 (interview: Craig Finn)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Klaatu<\/strong> \u2013 <i>Hope<\/i>, 1977 (interview: Terry Draper)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Patrick Moraz<\/strong> \u2013 <i>The Story of I<\/i>, 1976 (interview: Patrick Moraz)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nektar<\/strong> \u2013 <i>Journey to the Centre of the Eye<\/i>, 1971 (interview: Derek \u201cMo\u201d Moore)<\/li>\n<li><strong>William Shatner<\/strong> &#8212; <em>Ponder the Mystery<\/em>, 2013 (interview: William Shatner)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Al Stewart<\/strong> \u2013 <i>Past, Present and Future<\/i>, 1973 (interview: Al Stewart)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Turtles<\/strong> &#8211; <em>The Turtles Present The Battle of the Bands<\/em>, 1968 (interview: Mark Volman)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Utopia<\/strong> &#8212; <em>Deface the Music<\/em>, 1980 (interviews: Todd Rundgren, Kasim Sulton, Willie Wilcox)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rick Wakeman<\/strong> &#8211; <em>The Six Wives of King Henry VIII<\/em> , 1973 (interview: Rick Wakeman)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jeff Wayne<\/strong> \u2013 <i>The War of the Worlds<\/i>, 1978 (interview: Jeff Wayne)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Frank Zappa<\/strong> \u2013 <i>Joe\u2019s Garage<\/i>, 1987 (interview: Ike Willis)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There\u2019s much more to come, but those are the ones I can announce right now. Keep up with news on <i>What\u2019s the Big Idea<\/i> by checking in here at Musoscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: The book is available now. &#8212; bk I began work on my third music-related book a few months ago. I\u2019ll be delivering the finished manuscript for What\u2019s The Big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[5233],"class_list":["post-26015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book","tag-whats-the-big-idea","cat-10-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26015"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31649,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26015\/revisions\/31649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}