HW: Father and son

[Tim]

`levitating toad'???
tim
Jon Jarrett wrote:
 >
 > On Tue, 29 May 2001, Denis Regenbrecht wrote:
 >
 > > >He is a good drummer, not the best but he is good one. His style is too
 > > >straightforward but it was ok for heavy metal 80's style.
 > > >There are a lot of much worse drummers, for example Ginger Baker who ruined
 > > >the album Levitation and live shows where he played.
 > >
 > > Ginger Baker a bad drummer? NACK!
 >
 > RST.
 >
 > > And he didn't ruin Levitation IMO. His drumming fits very well in the whole
 > > style of the album.
 > > He isn't the best drummer for playing HW-music (Simon and Richard are the
 > > HW-drum-gods without a doubt), but I prefer his playing many times more
 > > than Danny's 'oomph-ta-oomph-ta-oomph-ta-ta'.
 > > BTW, I wonder what way HW would have gone, if Harvey had been fired and
 > > Jack Bruce brought in as his replacement, as mentioned in Kris' book.
 >
 > I'm mostly entirely in agreement with you; while there's music
 > going on round him Ginger Baker's a subtle complex and fiendishly quick
 > drummer and I think he fits in fine on _Levitation_; I wonder how Alice
 > hears the `album-that-should-have-been'? I always thought it a finished
 > work, I can't really hear anything in there trying to get out...
 >
 > But if Jack Bruce had joined too... I can see the solo spots
 > getting longer, the songs getting shorter... Unlike Mr Baker I rather
 > think Mr Bruce might have wanted a share of the writing and I somehow
 > doubt the Captain would have been too happy with the way he wanted to take
 > it; I think it would have been another `night of the long knives' as per
 > 1976 in very short order! Interesting idea though. Could the two music
 > styles ever have coalesced, anyone think? Yours,
 > Jon
 >
 > ObCD: HW - _The 1999 Party_
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 > Jon Jarrett (01223 514989)     jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk
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