Re: Who still live at Leeds

"volkfolk" <volkfolk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The best rock keeps it simple, some guys can do more with three chords
than ELP ever dreamed of with or without a symphony backing them up.

Damn straight. I have a friend who has a nice little practice space in he
Basement. He has a small PA, a set of druims (with a 15 yo son who has
discovered Ginger Baker) a couple of nice amps and one of the cheapo
Fender Jazz Basses. We get together occasionally and bang our way through
Sunshine of Your Love, Crossroads, Badge, White Room etc and pretend that
we are Cream @ the Royal Albert Hall ( unless we are playing Red House,
Purple Haze, Foxy Lady etc and then we are the Exprience :^)

Ooooooh that sounds like fun!

In all seriousness, there is no band as sonically devestating as a really
good power trio. Cream was the ultimate proof of that. Disreali Gears,
Wheels of Fire, and Live Cream, Vols I and II are all desert island
classics

Yeah, and add Mountain to that, only three guys but a huge sound, not to
mention Hendrix and ZZ Top, even The Who in a sense.

To tie this into the thread about Bruce and the Seeger Sessions, to me
reason why Bruce has lost me (Born to Run was THE album that made me want
to play music) is that he has too many musicians playing , and there is no
room left in the music. And the most important rule about music is that it
isn't about the notes you play, it is about the notes you DON'T play. Lots
of musicians and bands never figure this out.

The wall of sound has its place, but if they can't ever do without it then
it gets fatiguing real fast. A lot of Stones fans lament that these days
they have two or three backup singers plus a keyboard player plus a
three-piece brass section onstage much of the time, it turns some of those
classic Stones songs into an audio soup where you can't find the guitars, no
good.

The biggest thing is that PA systems are much more efficent and effects
are available that make it sound like you are overdriving a 100 watt tube
amp at 110 db, even though you are only playing at about 50-70 dbs. That
makes all the difference.

There's no need to have Marshall stacks onstage anymore, there are many
superb low-wattage amps that can be driven into creamy distortion without
deafening anybody, with good monitors and the P.A. to fill the hall nobody
needs to end up like Pete Townshend. But these kids, will they listen, no.
;^)


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