At 12:07 PM 6/17/2001 +0100, Keith Allison wrote:
greggluvox <murderedman@earthlink.net> writes >Yeah, but let's be serious - doesn't blues-rock really suck? Not always, no. Usually, perhaps. (Peter Green doesn't play blues-rock, just the blues.) Does Hendrix suck? Do the Stones suck (well, for a long time, I guess they probably have). Tel you what does really suck, though: twiddly-diddly jazz-rock nonsense. Oh, and Steely Dan.
Don't be so hard on Steely Dan, Keith. Becker and Fagan have certainly created their share of jazz-rock nonsense, but they can be pretty amazing songwriters. Check out "Almost Gothic" and "Negative Girl" on their Grammy-Awards-Album-Of-The-Year (choke, cough, clear throat) Two Against Nature.
Here are the opening lines to "Haitian Divorce" (1976): Babs and Clean Willie were in love they said So in love the preacher's face turned red Soon everybody knew the thing was deadThree lines (rhymed, no less) and you've learned that an oversexed Jewish Princess ("Babs") fell in lust with a not-totally-sleazy street guy ("Clean Willie" - a girl's got to have some standards, you know), got married in a fever hotter 'n a pepper sprout, and burned it out within a few weeks. That's not only major-league storytelling economy, it's completely visual, too.
Gotta give the devil his due. Jim K. -------------- To post: Mail matters@richardlloyd.com To unsubscribe: Mail majordomo@richardlloyd.com with the message "unsubscribe matters"