I dunno- when I was on the road playing prog to disco audiences in the early ‘80’s the bass player got all the girls.
Regards,
partune
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Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Re:
Singer
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"steve_tebble" <steve@...>
wrote:
>
the
> Mike Dickson recently said:
>
> "I still think that my abiding fondness for King Crimson lies in
> fact that their best work was always done when the singer simply
shut
> up and let the rest of the band get on with it."
any
>
> Surely that applies to any prog rock band, indeed any band, indeed
> musical act of any kind since primitive man first invented the art
form
> we call 'music.'
We've had this discussion before. The pretty boy up there on the
>
> Discuss.
>
stage singing those corny lyrics and grabbing his cojones gets all
the credit (and the girls) while the "backup" musicians have to play
down to him. But at least prog lyrics generally aren't as bad as pop
lyrics (IMO, that is).
Now what would an acapella group sound like without the singing?
"Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar" -- FZ