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I think I'll try listening on my headset to see if I can't find a chink in it. I try to think Gary Moore could've wrung more emotion out of it, but I'm undecided if he could've managed that quality in the singing. And, of course, this would be so perfect with that level studio guys behind him... and the drummers nearly stole the whole thing... well... everyone up on that stage nearly stole the whole thing.
I might've fainted if I'd been there.
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It's almost as perfect as Marianne's version of Working Class Hero.
Same thing. Peerless studio guys.
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Of course, this all gets me thinking about how to parse my problem with the two perfect versions of Epitaph. Greg Lake or Jakko Jakszyk, who just goddam so seriously does not suck, despite not being endowed with Lake's perfect pipes. I might be so appreciative of his courage to get up there and not be Greg Lake that it sounds so beautiful to me, but it seems to me he does top Lake in the emotional range part... and that is not a small thing.
Maybe I'll never finish working it out.
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He was nineteen at Hyde Park on 5 July 1969, a huge concert to commemorate Brian Jones.
King Crimson made their live debut on 9 April 1969, and made a breakthrough by playing the Rolling Stones free concert at Hyde Park, London in July 1969 before an estimated 500,000 people.So, the sound sucks, but it's the first time we heard him singing it live. I started it at Epitaph because I don't like all the haywire prog rock stuff you math geniuses admire so much, preferring something musical in my music, but you can just move the video back to the start if you want to hear the whole thing.
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Now I'm thinking of my fussbudget smoking buddy, who insists this is all crap that's ruined our brains. He turned me on to a sublime recording of CPE Bach that made me feel like I was on mushrooms. He says we should be listening to that kind of music from childhood, and it would grow humans with better brains.
I think that's exactly right, but I also think he's just plain jealous when he disses the snot out these rock heroes and our love for them. I mean, yes, the shit they're cranking out now put up against the masters of yesteryear is a baaad sign, but NOTHING prevents us from swooning over the sublimity of CPEB and the Dark Side of the Moon.
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Or do you disagree?
always and any time....
