Comments on: Generational Songs……

By: Randalf the Grey

Randalf the Grey — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 05:44:02 +0000

I’m a humanist myself, but if there’s a rock & roll heaven, you
know they’ve got a hell of a band. But if they were all playing
and singing at once, it might not sound so heavenly. I bet they
have to break it down into smaller groups, such as Zappa, Cage &
Moon. Of course Duane Allman would be jammin’ with Lynrd Skynrd.
How about John Lennon and Woody Guthrie ? And The Lizard King
would probably be writing opera with Herr Wagner, politics be damned.

By: Sunn

Sunn — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 17:25:25 +0000

Wheels in the Sky. Maybe Lennon, Harrison, Morrison, Hendrix, Joplin etc. are somewhere out there in the galaxy doing some serious cosmic jammin’.

By: Randalf the Grey

Randalf the Grey — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 06:49:09 +0000

Or if they got George Martin to produce, maybe the 70′s answer to The Beatles.
Guess we’ll never know.

By: Sunn

Sunn — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 02:33:29 +0000

That would probably have been the 70′s answer to Blind Faith. (Hendrix & ELP)

By: Randalf the Grey

Randalf the Grey — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 06:10:47 +0000

True, Lake isn’t a very good guitarist, but he’s a very good bass guitarist. It’s hard to
imagine what Hendrix, Emerson, Lake & Palmer might have sounded like. There would have to
have been a reconciliation of the difference in styles, but I’m sure this innovative and
talented bunch could have pulled that off. Can you imagine Jimi wailing on E.L.P.’s more
improvisational stuff–like Tarkus, Fanfare For The Common Man and The Hut Of Baba Yaga
from Pictures ? I just listened to that last one in my mind’s ear and it was ssssmokin’!

By: J.J.

J.J. — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 05:07:59 +0000

I cannot even imagine what would have came out of that, My little peanut brain cannot begin to process the sounds that would have been made. Because Greg Lake was not that great of a guitar player,not put up against Jimi.

By: Randalf the Grey

Randalf the Grey — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 05:38:39 +0000

The modern-day composer refuses to die. Yeah, that Cage / Anderson collaboration would
have been pretty special. Jimi Hendrix once considered, then rejected an invitation to
join the fledgling Emerson, Lake & Palmer–H.E.L.P.

By: Sunn

Sunn — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 18:18:40 +0000

Imagine if…………….John Cage & Laurie Anderson performed in concert together. May be even to bizarre for us greybeards.

By: Randalf the Grey

Randalf the Grey — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 06:57:06 +0000

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……………………………thank you. You have just
participated in a performance of 4’33″ by John Cage. If it
took you less than four minutes and thirty-three seconds,
you rushed the tempo.

By: Randalf the Grey

Randalf the Grey — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 06:42:28 +0000

Did Cage invent the sing-along ? On a more serious note, although he was obviously among
the top avant-garde composers of the twentieth century, and I really like some of the
concepts that he originated, I can’t say that I’ve enjoyed listening to any of the
recordings I’ve heard of his compositions. I’m sure there have been superb performances
of his work–the interactive nature of most of it insures that no two performances would
be alike. And in fairness, I’ve only heard a half-dozen or so such recordings, but Edgar
Varese’s auto horns are more melodious than most of it. Another artist of the genre,
Harry Partch, is my favorite. Partch was an inventor of fantastic and bizarre new
instruments as well as fantastic and bizarre new scales with which to perform his
compositions. He described himself as “a composer seduced into carpentry”.