h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hmm. Any mix that included Marillion would be pretty damn unpalateable.

Go and wash your mouth out with carbolic soap, Edward!

/me decides the Ed monkey isn't his type of person.

:p

/me forgets the hootoo smiley thing!

I can take it. Sorry...but anything with even the faintist whiff of Prog simply strikes me as turgid, pedestrian and sluggish. As Elvis Patrick Aloysius McManus once said,
'Some people forget that Rock needs to have a bit of Roll with it'.

I bet I can annoy *lots* of people with another band that I loathe with a passion...
















Queen.

Do people generally think that the best music is the stuff they used to listen to when they were young? I don't. I'm still hoping that I haven't heard the best yet.

And I am not having that,
I don't call any guitarest God, not even Hendrix, however to rubbish Clapton is simply not on. The Cream were a damn fine band and Clapton wasn't a bad guitarest, it isn't all about noisey and flash riffs. Forget the Clapton is God nonesense, he was still a good guitarest.
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Do you want to hung, drawn and quartered and then tarred and feathered, monkey-boy?

>>Y'know...from our encounters in a previous live, I already had you marked down as a Metalist.<<

Ed, you wouldn't be making sweeping assumptions regarding someone's subcultural associations based only their physical appearance from 15 years ago now, would you?

You'd think I would've grown out of it by now .

>>Clapton wasn't a bad guitarest,

To quote Sick Boy from 'Trainspotting'...

'Aye - but no bad's no good enough.'

>>it isn't all about noisey and flash riffs.

Death to flashy riffs*. Keep it simple! But there are any number of sparse blues guitarists who would leave Craphand standing. He himself would admit it. Robert Johnson, Son House, Charlie Patton, Willie Johnson, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker...

And Cream, I'm afraid, were self-important, self-indulgent dross.
(But if you like that sort of stuff - check out the far superior Mahavishnu Orchestra).


* OK - so Hendrix could get away with it, But even with him, the real majesty was when he *wasn't* riffing but holding back. See also Ella Fitzgerald singing something like 'A-Tisked A-Tasket'. The beauty is knowing that she *could* break into scat, but sometimes she chose not to. Or Dionne Warwick who taught her neice Whitney to sing but didn't bother with all her pointless colurata.

Ahoy, shipmate!

Mahavishnu Orchestra like Cream?
Sorry don't get that at all. Mahavishnu Orchestra(sp?) were good, but you could call them self indulgent too, and all that hippy trippy stuff as well!!
Actually for hippy trippy but good playing then listen to 1970s Gong, inventive, funny and good.
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We will have to disagree about Cream as I thought they were great.....

Yeah...that one was a bit of a hostage to fortune, wasn't it? And I'd kinda censored their hippy noodling from my memory. But they had a great line-up with Jean-Luc Ponty, Jan Hammer and Billy Cobham that did some great live stuff.

Jaysus! I'd forgotton that John McLaughlin played a twin-necked guitar. Oof! No excuse, no excuse.

Forget I ever mentioned them.

Have to agree with you there, SS, Gong were superb

Gong? GONG?!!

No.

Oh, come on;

Squeezing Sponges Over Policemen's Heads

The Pot Head Pixies

Wingful Of Eyes

Classic!

That's an opinion.

However...they were French anyway.

Oh I know that! I was just being

Two words;

Roy Harper

Some were french, Steve Hillage was very much english, I saw him in Hyde Park, after he left Gong I think.
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On the subject of Mahavishnu,
I have infront of me a vinyle LP I haven't played for 30 years which if I remember was quite good. It is called "Love, Devotion, Surrender" and features Carlos Santana and Mahavishnu John McLaughlin (as he calls himself here). It features Jan Hammer, etc and contains some very good dueling guitar work from them both, if I remember correctly.
It is a bit hippy drippy and features a cross legged indian gentlemen and the 2 guitarests in white suits on cover, however as I have read in recent years it is an underrated album and somwhat overlooked. worth a listen if possible.