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All of the aboveVideo Fun - Love Sculpture
Hands up if you remember this one:
The camerawork is awfully 1960s, nicht wahr? An early example there of classical/rock crossover, before ELP and I think even before The Nice did their Karelia Intermezzo. (Actually both 1969 so neck and neck.)
I'd have to say that IMHO the Love Sculpture track has held up better with the passing years. And who can tell me the link between Love Sculpture and my current 25 First Lines quiz? (Hint - it's one of the ones that's been guessed.)
posted by Rob @ 03:27
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Um, the lead guitarist looks a bit like Dave Edmunds. Is that it?
Um, the lead guitarist is Dave Edmunds! That was where I first heard of him - I was astonished (& a bit disappointed) when he went back to his Spector/rock & roll roots later on.
Richie Blackmore was playing a guitar version of "Hall of Mountain King" back in the mid-sixties well before Deep Purple. Not sure if he ever recorded it, though.
Indeed, the same Dave Edmunds who went on to do "I Hear You Knocking". It's a funny old world.
Tim - didn't know the Richie Blackmore HOTMK but I'll look out for it.
Of course, streching the definition of crossover a bit, but the Byrds included the complete melody, albeit with its rhythm modified to disguise it, of Bach's "Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring" as a guitar break on She Don't Care About Time in 1965.
Also from 1965, A Lover's Concerto (Bach's Minuet in G). Or is that not rocky or bluesy enough?
Well, it's not really rock, is it? It's sort of BBC Light Programme stuff. (I am reminded of this awesome version, immortalised in Kenny Everett's "World's Worst Record Show" compilation.
In the same way I ruled out Jacques Loussier's "Air On A G String", though it's probably the best known of the lot.
Gee, I'd forgotten all about Mrs Miller. Until now. Uh, thanks, Rob.
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