OFF: The Weller/Kilmister controversy
Arin Komins
akomins at UCHICAGO.EDU
Wed Dec 6 08:16:48 EST 2006
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:
:Subject: Re: OFF: The Weller/Kilmister controversy
:
:On 06/12/2006 09:43, iain ferguson wrote:
:> come on, they were bloody excellent.
:
:I think I was the wrong age at the time. Occasionally I catch a song now and
:think "That's cool", not realizing until later it was the Police.
:
:Well, when I was a teen, I didn't know who'd played "Don't Fear the Reaper",
:either ... ;)
:
:> All three of them outstanding musicians.
:
:You may be right -- I only tend to get reminded of this when I hear them again
:anew and afresh (if that's a word), like with Copeland in Oysterhead. I still
:think Sting has gone a bit bland (I will quietly admit to liking some of his
:early solo songs, though I only heard them 'cause my sister had the LPs ;) but
:now that I think of it, I'm not sure I've heard any of Andy Summers's solo
:stuff.
I've liked Andy Summers's stuff with Robert Fripp, but that's all of his
solo stuff that I've heard.
Arin
(occasionally a Crim fan)
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