----- Original Message ----- From: "Reggie Bautista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 5:09 PM Subject: Re: Continuing Education
> Talking about Yes, William T Goodall asked: > >They did good stuff too? > > Quite a bit of it. Many musicians consider them one of the best bands of > the 1970s. > > As a matter of fact (and I'm not saying whether this is a good thing or a > bad thing), there would have been no Duran Duran without Yes. There > was an interview sometime in the middle 1980s where some of the > members of Duran Duran said that their musical goal was to be as unlike > Yes as possible. :-) > That was more or less the entire impetus of the "Punk Revolution". The idea was that garage band quality music and the application of the most basic rock tropes was somehow more desirable than compositional ability and years of acquired skills. xponent Foolish Pursuits Maru rob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
