I don't even know most of them Gerald, but Richard Thompson, yes, of
course.
Then, again, you're mixing genres now aren't you: Parker, Taylor, etc...
We can start wandering memory roads into many different fields if we
aren't careful....
And what fun it could be!
Doug
On 20-Mar-07, at 10:48 AM, Gerald Schwartz wrote:
> Also, I believe, missing are (is):
>
> Psychic TV (w/ and without Burroughs)
> The Residents
> Richard Thompson
> William Parker
> Cecil Taylor
> Steve Swell
> Sabir Mateen
> Test
> the Brotzman's (both father und son)
> The Birthday Party
> The Bad Seeds
> Solomons Ramada
> The Browncuts Neighbors
> The Minutemen
> Faking Trains
> The Buckets
> Ed's Redeeming Qualities
> B. A. D.
> Popol Vuh
> Can
> Zoviet France
> ...and the Mekons...
>
> --Gerald S.
>
>
>> No one's yet mentioned Jonathan Richman or Warren Zevon, have they?
>>
>> Roger Day wrote:
>>> A recent article in the LRB compared the trajectories of Velvet
>>> Underground and the Grateful Dead, seemed to find them very similar.
>>> I
>>> loved the Velvets. Nico's Marble Index is way spooky.
>>>
>>> The Ramones were almost comatose the last time I saw them, supported
>>> by the Chilli Peppers (in their socks-on-cocks phase).
>>>
>>> I liked Television.
>>>
>>> New York Dolls.
>>>
>>> Joni Mitchell has an interview in the Guardian on line. Ladies of the
>>> Canyon, heh, good for listening to and rolling joints on.
>>>
>>> Nick Cave's colloboration with Kylie was awesome. The film he
>>> scripted
>>> recently also got good reviews.
>>>
>>> I looked at the guitar tabs for The Church's "Under the milky way
>>> tonight" but gave up. Simon and Garfunkel also defeated me - a pair
>>> of
>>> guitar geeks with the most obscure chords. Transposing the songs for
>>> mandolin is currently beyond me. I want to buy a guitar NOW, but I'll
>>> have difficulties transporting it to Oz.
>>>
>>> Any more up and coming Oz bands?
>>>
>>> Roger
>>>
>>> On 3/20/07, Janet Jackson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>> Well, my second favourite band is Calla, from New York.
>>>> Someone happened to mention them online one time and I checked them
>>>> out.
>>>> Anyone on here heard of them?
>>>>
>>>> After that I probably like Ladysmith Black Mambazo as much as
>>>> anything.
>>>> And traditional Celtic played live (here in Perth we have David
>>>> Hyams and
>>>> the Miles to Go Band, including the truly awesome Andy Copeman on
>>>> guitar
>>>> and cittern).
>>>>
>>>> Nick Cave. PJ Harvey. White Stripes. Arcade Fire. Snow Patrol (a
>>>> little
>>>> on the lite side, but very good live -- I've seen them twice now!)
>>>> Did someone mention the Pixies? And does anyone remember the
>>>> Smiths?
>>>> The Cure? Television? THE VELVET UNDERGROUND!
>>>>
>>>> Pink Floyd. Jimi Hendrix. The Doors -- indeed, Ken, there's a band
>>>> I'd like
>>>> to have seen.
>>>>
>>>> And of course there's Bob Dylan. I did once see him live and was
>>>> disappointed...but I wasn't feeling well at the time so maybe it
>>>> was that.
>>>>
>>>> I should perhaps mention that also I like a bit of opera, a bit of
>>>> Vivaldi,
>>>> a bit of the Ramones and the Sex Pistols... and that Kanye West is
>>>> good live!
>>>>
>>>> Janet
>>>>
>>>> > I'm just impressed by what good musical taste list members have.
>>>> Reading
>>>> > this thread, I keep going, "Yeah, that. Oh, & that's a great band
>>>> too."
>>>> >
>>>> > jd
>>>>
>>>> -------------------------------------------------------
>>>> Janet Jackson <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> Poems at Proximity:
>>>> http://www.proximity.webhop.net
>>>>
>>>> The choice is between nonviolence and nonexistence.
>>>> Martin Luther King Jr.
>>>> -------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>
>
>
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