Andy in Sig
Vice President in Exile
- Location
- Sigmaringen, Germany
Led Zep are an odd one: Jimmy Page wrote a couple of songs while he was still with the Yardbirds and I've got a live version of Dazed and Confused on vinyl as played by that band and Keith Relf sang it perfectly IMO. Cut to Robert Plant: I just can't stand the bugger's screamy, whiny voice. I also reckon his legions of imitators are responsible for a lot of rock being irritatingly unlistenable. I think that Jimmy Page is brilliantly creative but I'm not entirely taken with his take on the blues. All that said, I think Led Zep would have been a lot better with a decent singer.
ELP get much more stick than they deserve IMO. I still think that Trilogy is one of those albums that most people would think was full of good tunes, well played and there's nothing pretentious there at all. Brain Salad Surgery is a rare example of big stadium, prog rock being absolutely brilliant. I agree though that sticking knives in the keyboards was just nutty. FWIW there is a Keith Emerson solo album called Emerson plays Emerson and it is down to earth musicianship.
I can't for the life of me see how anybody who likes blues or bluesy rock couldn't like Rory Gallagher. Ne'er mind eh? Each to his own.
As for the negative stuff: I couldn't bear junk like Queen, David Bowie, Elton John etc. It was just electronic music hall, show biz tat. If you must insist on that kind of stuff, then get the real thing and listen to the likes of Bruce Forsyth, Dean Martin or Max Bygraves. A lot of punk, while performing a good cleansing operation was in itself just crap e.g. the vastly overrated first album by The Clash was just bad tempered nursery rhymes. What was interesting IMO was the stuff that sneaked in as part of the punk chaos e.g. Ian Dury, The Stranglers, The Beat (first two albums were works of genius). Laughably Eddie and the Hot Rods were classed as punk when they started. They were worth every punk band added together IMO and their Thriller album was one of the all time great albums but sadly most people seem to have never heard of it.
ELP get much more stick than they deserve IMO. I still think that Trilogy is one of those albums that most people would think was full of good tunes, well played and there's nothing pretentious there at all. Brain Salad Surgery is a rare example of big stadium, prog rock being absolutely brilliant. I agree though that sticking knives in the keyboards was just nutty. FWIW there is a Keith Emerson solo album called Emerson plays Emerson and it is down to earth musicianship.
I can't for the life of me see how anybody who likes blues or bluesy rock couldn't like Rory Gallagher. Ne'er mind eh? Each to his own.
As for the negative stuff: I couldn't bear junk like Queen, David Bowie, Elton John etc. It was just electronic music hall, show biz tat. If you must insist on that kind of stuff, then get the real thing and listen to the likes of Bruce Forsyth, Dean Martin or Max Bygraves. A lot of punk, while performing a good cleansing operation was in itself just crap e.g. the vastly overrated first album by The Clash was just bad tempered nursery rhymes. What was interesting IMO was the stuff that sneaked in as part of the punk chaos e.g. Ian Dury, The Stranglers, The Beat (first two albums were works of genius). Laughably Eddie and the Hot Rods were classed as punk when they started. They were worth every punk band added together IMO and their Thriller album was one of the all time great albums but sadly most people seem to have never heard of it.
