Wishbone Ash remake

Good to chat with you again Kirk...it's been a while.

I respect your views and in many ways I agree with you. I don't, however, believe that Martin is doing the 'remake' of Argus as a slight on his old band mate Andy Powell. When I saw Martin a few months ago he was just excited to be recording and playing some of the songs that he wrote years ago. His Cds of new music such as "Walking the Reeperbahn" have a lot of merit IMHO and deserve a listen.

You could, maybe, look at "Son of Argus" as new arrangements of songs and this is something that happens all the time in many genres (I hate that word but it fits here) of music. How many versions of My Way have there been? How many different recordings of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony are there out there ? Thousands. And what is beautiful is that they are all different in some way and offer something joyous to the ear that would have been lost were they not to have been recorded.

I'm looking forward to Martin's effort and will listen to it when it is released. If it turns out to be a bummer then I'll say so.

[Rick and Roll]

Originally Posted by KeithieW

How many versions of My Way have there been? How many different recordings of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony are there out there ? Thousands. And what is beautiful is that they are all different in some way and offer something joyous to the ear that would have been lost were they not to have been recorded.

I'm looking forward to Martin's effort and will listen to it when it is released. If it turns out to be a bummer then I'll say so.

Agreed. And I'll take it at face value about not being a slight. But the examples above are remakes by other artists, not remakes by the same person of a whole record. That's what I'm getting at. I'm sure there's examples of remaking whole records - it'd be naive to think otherwise. But remakes by one member only of a whole record I'm not fond of.

I'm betting it wouldn't be a bummer Keithie, though...how could it be?

[kirk]

Hi KW,

That sounds reasonable. Integrity isn't something you're short on,
so i'll await your review.

I'm guessing there'll be things that effect the outcome, like age
on the vocal chords...changes in technology, production.

No matter what the motive, comparisons will happen.

Good chatting w/ you too, mate. Let's not make it so long inbetween.

N A M A S T E

Kirk

[Toccata]

But when we listen any Beethoven's 5th simphony version
we are in front of a Classic Orchestre.
Listening any classic masterpiece we depend of a Composer, The players , and a Conductor interpretating his version of the work .
In a Prog Group like W.A , the composers are the same players interpretating their same version , everything are the most intimate possible!!