Jerry Curry put down his old Nektar albums long enough to post:
>In my opinion, Richard Thompson is one of the most important and
>influential artists of the late 70's/80's. His swansong albums with
>Linda: _I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight_ and _Shoot Out the
>Lights_ are two definite desert island recordings for me.
>
>NP: Freedy Johnston - This Perfect World
Once again, Jerry Curry proves that him and I were separated
at birth.
It makes sense that Lance wouldn't like the Airplane or Fairport since
early Fairport was just basically modeled after the Airplane and and other
West Coast Rockers of the era. Folks like Thompson, Denny and
especially Ashley "Tiger" Hutchings just eventually steered it
away from the American singer-songwriter influences towards the
trad British folk ballad route for parts of "Unhalfbricking" and
all of "Liege and Lief." And don't forget the incredible violin
of Dave Swarbrick, which paved the way for Jean Luc Ponty, which
cleared the way for the Dave Mathews Band, which I believe is
some sort of bland jam-rock... ;-)
Actually, catch Thompson live sometime. Incredible on both acoustic
and electric. Makes me want to sell my guitars because there's no
way I could ever come close to making them sound so wonderful. And
there's no awful producer schlubbing up the great songs (read: Mitchell
Froom). Junior's take on "From Galway to Graceland" is right on; and
don't forget "1952 Vincent Black Lightning." You'd swear there were
three different guitarists playing it until you see him do it live.
Gregg
n.p. - Dan Fogelberg - Twin Sons of Different Mothers ;-)
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