Post by Mark RaePost by Ian Andrew SchneiderRemember though, Darryl and Chester came from a Zappa orchestra where
tryouts were cold readings of scores at odd time signatures in no
particular key. Have you ever [lowered] yourself and heard Darryl
play live? He can't play like Fripp, but he could do hackett with his
toes - as suitable as Steve was to Genesis (he steals the end of
Supper's Ready, not bad!) his parts were, well, kinda easy.
Easy perhaps, but Steve Hackett created it. Darryl is skilled at
reproducing, but it's what Hackett initiated that we remember.
Absolutely correct. Darryl may be able to play 20 notes a second - Steve can
also do that, but has enough taste and sensitivity to know when not to...
Darryl's massacring of Steve's Firth of Fifth solo is an abomination...
Measuring the "quality" of music by how fast it is akin to the scene in
"Dead Poets' Society" where the schoolboys are taught how to measure the
quality of a poem mathematically...
I think your calling a most highly subjective solo an "abomination"
does nothing for my understanding of the music. And I'm with ya on
the speed thing! I'll take Tony Banks 1000 times over Chick Corea,
the former being a competant professional and Corea being the Fripp or
John McLaughlin of the keys. Why? Personal taste. I hear no
humanity beyond that cold Dianetics based series of half-diminished
harmonic minor Phrygian scales, Persian arpeggios and root inverse
square Spanish scales and so on. I saw Chick in THE ENCHANTMENT tour
at the Keswick this year with co-writer Bela Fleck. Bela, on one
banjo, not changed one - he may have used a capo a time or two, 4
plain strings, had more in it for me in 30 seconds than Chick's whole
night. Bela Fleck in Genesis after Steve left? That woulda been most
interesting. I wonder: any of you people out there who play banjo who
play aling with Genesis records: How does it sound? The thing that
brought genesis down was not the drum machine, it wasn't Peter's
absence, it wasn't the simpler or even sarcastically simple songs.
No. It was never replacing Hackett. Pains me as it does to type
this: Milke, you do a mean knee-bend, I love your bass playing, but
your refusal to give up guitar duties stunted Genesis' growth. There
is a scene in the Genesis "WHEN IN ROME" DVD part 2 where Phil says,
"I just keep sayig to myself, "if we were just *that* [small amount]
much better!" I think - yeah - if you guys had had hired a guitarist
after Hackett's act of financial idiocy. I think the dude who plays
Steve in TMB makes more money than Hackett.
1976 dream: "Steve, man, pretty soon all "albums" will go from 22/12
minutes per side of vinyl to 74 minutes per side of lasers, and your
songs will all be heard. Your 'artistic integrity' would be suitable
if you were Prince Charles' personal muician. But you're not, and the
music industry has been ripping off the public for so many years that
when the Napster rebound happens, you'll be the man in need - if you
quit, you're out. On your own you'll have your integrity, where along
with a dollar bill buys you a donut - maybe a criossant. (the tea is
on you). Andy Summers, a mildly talented guitar player yet a supremely
talented Music Business Player, to musician that are more appealable
to the public. Just watch: he'll make millions from a fairly easy
2007-2008 Police reuinion tour. Pays the bills! Think about it
because once you quit you willl not be welcome back."
I have all Steve's albums, and as a solo artist, he is vastly better
than Darryl though, so I'm with ya there! Darryl's "Another Side Of
Genesis" is the seconds worst album rekated to any of the Genesis
personage, the first, by an ocean, being Phil's "They Had To have been
playing this at Guantanamo" Live & Loose in Paris. Not to try to
sound like you, that album is so vile I stopped listening after the
Oom-pa version of That's All in all its "swing" garishness. After
Phil's deafness, you can't blame him for anything - Both Sides,
Testify, Tarzan: leave Phil alone - having had his head on top of the
snare for so longgave him Beethoven disease, which I have. I have
been told it's "temporary" - but I have lost all enthusiasm for
creativity as I'm too busy figuring out of I'm going to need to use
sign language. So those of youwho've despised these posts all these
years: rejoice - I'm both deaf and my ears are clogged and every 20
minutes or so let out razor blade like pain.