OFF: Colour Haze & Los Natas; Euro dates incl. UK

Carl Edlund Anderson cea at CARLAZ.COM
Fri Nov 4 09:59:42 EST 2005


On 01/11/2005 23:21, Jonathan Jarrett wrote:
> It's on a
> fairly disappointing compilation of seventies covers by stoner bands
> called _Sucking the 70s_, which has so very many good ideas and so few of
> them coming off. Clutch, for example, cover Tull's `Cross-Eyed Mary',
> which should be a match made in heaven, but it's a sub-par live
> performance with no frills when frills is half of what it's about.[1] I'm
> sure they could do it better than that.

That *is* disappointing!  It had never occured to me until you mentioned
it, but now that you have, I can't think of a better band (on paper at
least) to tackle that era of Tull than Clutch.

> [1] Though the Mushroom River Band's version of `Hymn 43' is surprisingly
> OK.

Woah! :)

Cheers,
Carl

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