I hope you Rutles fans are also listeners to the Bonzo Dog Doo Da Band.
I'm sure you are, and you know how great they were.
I'm an Urban Spaceman,
Matt
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> Carl Abraham Zimring writes:
>
> >Possibly, though I'm pretty sure all the guitar, bass, keyboards and
> >singing on the Rutles records was done by Neil Innes. He may also
> >have played the drums.
>
> I don't think so. Innes has said in interviews that the Rutles
> rehearsed the music from the movie as a group before they went into
> the
> studio to record and that, in fact, he has tapes from the '77/'78
> rehearsals that he's considered releasing at some point. Who did
> exactly
> what on the records is harder to pin down, admittedly. Innes can
> certainly play lead guitar and the clips of Fataar in the movie (as
> well
> as reports of the Rutles' few live performances) suggest that Fataar
> is
> capable in that regard, too. He's clearly not faking his parts if you
> look at the film. It's also known that Ollie Halsall (pictured as
> "Leppo," the fifth Rutle, in the Hamburg photo) did some portion of
> the
> lead guitar work on the first record, as well as the Dirk McQuickly
> vocals. Halsall died before much of "Archaeology" was completed,
> which
> is why there aren't any McQuickly vocals on the album. It's possible
> that some of the songs on the two albums are mostly or entirely Innes,
> but I don't think that it's a large portion of either record,
> personally.
> --Jon Johnson
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> Wollaston, Massachusetts
