HW: Weird #6

[ANDREW GARIBALDI]

I agree with you there - not quite the point I was making - I agree that
there are a lot of bands who can play a track from one year to the next and
inject something new in there every time, but equally there are the examples
I mentioned that surely must be so mundane even to the committed fan, as
tracks, although for each band I am sure there are other tracks that may
have changed, although with the compositional stritjacket that is the
'prog-rock' genre, they must be few and far between.
Andy Garibaldi
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Mather" <paul at GROMIT.DLIB.VT.EDU>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 4:40 PM
Subject: Re: HW: Weird #6


> On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, ANDREW GARIBALDI wrote:
>
> => all this works well with a band like Hawkwind, but the subtleties and
> => nuances of having forty versions of Pink Floyd's 'Echoes' on live
tapes, is
> => vastly outweighed by the yawn factor. See also: 'Supper's Ready',
'Close to
> => The Edge', etc.....
>
> I disagree.  Someone recently compiled a collection of as many covers
> they could find of the tune "Afro Blue" done to this date by Gov't Mule.
> ("Afro Blue" was popularised by John Coltrane.)  It's something like 7
> or 8 CDs.  It's great to hear the different takes on the song, varying
> between acoustic and electric; various guests; various lengths:
> different interpretations.  It's a really popular set doing the rounds
> right now.
>
> I agree it would be fairly uninteresting if a band pretty much played
> the same song the same arrangement every time.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul.
>
> e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu
>
> "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production
>  deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."
>         --- Frank Vincent Zappa