I can't for the life of me understand why a rock band would chose to not include a violin accompaniment. My vision of the world has it prominent with guitar and bass.
This explains a lot
Gary Lees
I worked for Kate Bush's father in the 1980's for quite a few years, he was the consultant geriatrician for the elderly psychiatric ward I was a staff nurse on. He was lovely in every way possible, I've never worked for a consultant since then that has been so dedicated and has given of themselves so completely to the care of their patients as he did, if a patient was in the final stages of dying on the ward he would sit holding their hands and reading to them for as at it took for them to pass so that they didn't have to die alone.........… saying that though. he was very quirky and eccentric though but in a very nice way, I see a lot of him in his daughter and her work still to this day.
there are one or two people around in this world at the moment that could have learnt a lot from his amazing humanity
I love Elvis (ldo) and this is such an unbearably painful and beautiful clip.
It's from the end of his career - he's a mess. He's out of breath, stuttering, shaking and rambling and you'd expect the whole thing to be just a disaster from a drugged out has-been.
I posted an interview with Kate Bush earlier in this thread.
Interviewer : “You are 21 and have reached the top, what else is there for you left to do”
Kate: “Everything “
Sorry about going on about Kate Bush, but I found this on YouTube comments(About love and anger)
'One of the first tracks she wrote for the album was Love and Anger. Again, the track didn't exactly write itself.
"I couldn't get the lyrics. They were one of the last things to do. I just
couldn't find out what the song was about, though the tune was there.
The first verse was always there, and that was the problem, because I'd
already set some form of direction, but I couldn't follow through. I
didn't know what I wanted to say at all. I guess I was just tying to
make a song that was comforting, up tempo, and about how when things get
really bad, it's alright really - 'Don't worry old bean. Someone will
come and help you out.'
"The song started with a piano, and Del put a
straight rhythm down. Then we got the drummer, and it stayed like that
for at least a year and a half. Then I thought maybe it could be okay,
so we got Dave Gilmour in. This is actually one of the more difficult
songs - everyone I asked to try and play something on this track had
problems. It was one of those awful tracks where either everything would
sound ordinary, really MOR, or people just couldn't come to terms with
it. They'd ask me what it was about, but I didn't know because I hadn't
written the lyrics. Dave was great - I think he gave me a bit of a
foothold there, really. At least there was a guitar that made some
sense. And John (Giblin) putting the bass on - that was very important.
He was one of the few people brave enough to say that he actually liked
the song."
Do you give your musicians quite a free hand?
"When I
don't know what's happening, yes. But that song was just so bizarre. In
some ways it's a very ordinary structure compared to the other songs. I
think putting the Valiha on was very important. It's a beautiful
sounding instrument - it looks a bit like a Zither, and it's from
Madagascar. It sounds like sunshine - it has this really happy, bubbly
sound. I think that really helped to give the song a different
perspective. It's a very straightforward treatment - drums, bass,
guitar, piano - and I think for me it's one of the more straightforward
songs on the album. A chirpy little number."
International Musician, "What Katie Did Next", Tony Horkins, December 1989
I love Elvis (ldo) and this is such an unbearably painful and beautiful clip.
It's from the end of his career - he's a mess. He's out of breath, stuttering, shaking and rambling and you'd expect the whole thing to be just a disaster from a drugged out has-been.
But then... he starts singing...
It's almost as though he were morphing into Liberace in a Tim Powers novel