Ugh. Clapton (and Roger Waters, of all people) will be playing a benefit for the (gag) Countryside Alliance: http://www.countryside-alliance.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2548&Itemid=798 If you don't know, Countryside Alliance is a rightwing, pro-hunting, rich toff gun nu...
krabapple wrote:Can I get you to do a riff on the Grateful Dead?
No. I could (and did) slog my way through the Crimson discography, but there's NO WAY, NO HOW I'm touching a Grateful Dead album, even if you had a gun to my head. (Sudden death is preferable to a drawn-out spiritual death.)
<shrug> Copeland *was* a fine drummer in his day, and I'm sure Bruford knows as much about time sigs as you do. From what I've read BB's jazz tastes run to Elvin Jones/postbop stuff. I never would have pegged you for a jazz snob.... Knowing jazz does not necessarily equate with being a "jazz s...
As I said, Bruford was a nice guy (which is more than I can say about Belew ; didn't talk to the others) -- bubbly personality. It's just that he kept telling me how much he was into "jazz," yet seemed to know little about it. Amazingly, he didn't know who John Gilmore was, seemed like he'...
czeskleba wrote:Forgetting about the Beach Boys... you watched every episode of the Brady Bunch? Why? Seriously, what was the context? I'm genuinely curious.
I bet drugs had something to do with it. That's my theory anyway.
COLA... so you think the Beach Boys suck. Then why have you bothered to listen to their shit years albums enough times to have detailed, informed opinions about how and why they suck? What's that about? Masochism? Or are you a lapsed fan now seeking to deprogram others? You may also be shocked to k...
What's even worse is that I had to first endure the King Crimson "double trio" concert. One of the most horrific things I've ever had the unfortunate displeasure to have witnessed and heard in this life was the spectacle of Belew -- hamming it up like that grinning idiot guitar player who ...