----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Seeberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 8:38 PM Subject: Re: Continuing Education
> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Reggie Bautista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 5:09 PM > Subject: Re: Continuing Education > > > > Talking about Yes, William T Goodall asked: > > >They did good stuff too? > > > > Quite a bit of it. Many musicians consider them one of the best bands of > > the 1970s. > > > > As a matter of fact (and I'm not saying whether this is a good thing or a > > bad thing), there would have been no Duran Duran without Yes. There > > was an interview sometime in the middle 1980s where some of the > > members of Duran Duran said that their musical goal was to be as unlike > > Yes as possible. :-) > > > That was more or less the entire impetus of the "Punk Revolution". > The idea was that garage band quality music and the application of the most > basic rock tropes was somehow more desirable than compositional ability and > years of acquired skills. Actually, I thought it was more a revolution against glitter rock; which was viewed as a rococo bastardization of the heart of rock and roll. I like both Zeppelin and Yes from the early '70s. They explored rather different aspects of rock. Zeppelin did a wonderful job of exploring and extending the blues that underlie rock. Rock and Roll is a good example of this. Yes explored the possibility of a more classical music approach to rock. I remember a Minn. band "Jessie Brady" who did a lot of Yes covers and wrote music in that style. They talked about filling the same musical space as an orchestra with just a few instruments. My absolute favorite group from that time period was a very short lived group: Derek and the Dominoes. (sp) Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
