Newsgroups: bit.listserv.allmusic
Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 11:16:04 EDT
From:         "Michael H. Bloom" <MHB@MITVMA.BITNET>
Subject:      Covers and other trivia

From:         MCINTYRE@MSUPA.BITNET
Subject:      re: favorite German bands

> Yep, Popol Vuh was another one I forgot to list.  To my surprise they have
> a fairly recent CD out on the Milan label distributed by BMG so it should
> be available.  The title is _For You And Me_ and the copyright date is
> 1991.  My early impression is I don't like it as much as their Herzog
> soundtracks, but I am glad to know they are still carrying on.

My opinion is, it's largely New Age twaddle, although it's got a little bit of
interesting Celtic influence. I'd like to start a thread on the topic of why so
many musicians from the '70s progressive rock area opted to debase themselves
by going new age. There's got to me more to it than the incidence of arpeggios,
hasn't there?

From:         MCINTYRE@MSUPA.BITNET
Subject:      re: Steve Howe

> Other Tomorrow trivia: "My White Bicycle" was covered by Nazareth.  The
> drummer for Tomorrow was Twink who went on to have an obscure solo album,
> play funeral drum on Bob Calvert's _Captain Lockheed And the Starfighters_,
> did three (I think) albums with the Pink Fairies, and was in Syd Barrett's
> extrememly short-lived post-Pink Floyd band.

There's a more recent "My White Bicycle" cover, by that faux hippie clown who
calls himself "Neil." I don't remember enough about the album, I only got to
hear it once, but it's also got covers of Traffic's "Hole in my Shoe" (one of
Dave Mason's tunes, not Stevie Winwood's) and Caravan's "Golf Girl" (hooray!).
Dave Stewart worked on the record, and I wonder whether the Caravan tune was
his idea; he bristles at being called a Canterbury player, but he really was
Mike Ratledge's best disciple ever... this is (obviously?) the keyboardist
Dave Stewart, not the Eurythmic.

Nazareth was really funny with their choice of covers. I remember their
version of Joni Mitchell's "This Flight Tonight," with a headbanger train
rhythm, really remarkably silly...

From:         Gary Hanley <ghanley@DG-WEBO.WEBO.DG.COM>
Subject:      Re: "My White Bicycle"

> 	OMC II - Whilst on the subject of covers, I finally heard
> Primus's cover of XTC's "Making Plans For Nigel," which I had long
> desired a hear. Interesting, but not exciting.

Did you ever get to hear "Making Plans for Bison" by Shonen Knife-- who, it is
alleged, have just signed a major label deal with (I think) MCA...

From:         "OUT,
              OUT - YOU'LL NOT FEEL THE FALL-OUT..." <OLIVOTTO@ITNCISCA.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: favorite German bands

>         There is an obscure (now) German band that apparently no-one named:
> EMBRYO. They were quite popular (well, all is relative...) in the 70s, and
> I even had the chance to see them live in my hometown when I was 14 more or
> less.

Charlie Mariano played with these guys, right? And I vaguely recall that a
number of jazzmen, various American expatriates, sat in with them from time
to time. A friend of mine is a big Mariano fan, and probably has every album
Embryo ever made, or anyone who was ever in Embryo, or anyone who ever played
with any band member... he was even more obsessed about Focus.

From:         Gary Hanley <ghanley@DG-WEBO.WEBO.DG.COM>
Subject:      Re: Train Kept A-Rollin covers

> 	Foghat did a, well, shall we say an incarnation of the song,
> and I think the name was called "Honey Hush", if I remember correctly,
> and I don't usually.
> 	Anyway, it was basically the same song with different lyrics.

I was always under the impression that "Honey Hush" was the original song as
Johnny Burnette wrote it, and the Yardbirds wrote the "Train Kept a-Rollin'"
lyrics so the song could get included in the soundtrack to the movie _Blow Up_
without certain legal hassles.
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