Bring them back together!

Uh, guys..nobody's mentioned Gentle Giant!!  I'd rather hear a new album by them than anyone else.  Barring that, the "original" Genesis line-up (w/Gabriel and Collins).

Peace.

Maybe we can get a Lazarus job for Mozart so he can write just one more symphony. Or HEY, let's bring Dave Chase back from the dead so we can get one more CHASE album.

If you're talkimg about resurrection I'd ask to bring back Gary Thain and David Byron to reunite rhe classical Uriah Heep formation Byron - Hensley - Thain - Box - Kerslake.

Great band.

Iván

ivan_2068 wrote: Maybe we can get a Lazarus job for Mozart so he can write just one more symphony. Or HEY, let's bring Dave Chase back from the dead so we can get one more CHASE album. If you're talkimg about resurrection I'd ask to bring back Gary Thain and David Byron to reunite rhe classical Uriah Heep formation Byron - Hensley - Thain - Box - Kerslake. Great band. Iván

Wouldn't that be something Ivan!

On the now deleted "Easy Livin' - A history of UH" video, Hensley actually says that if Byron and Thain were still alive, he'd like to think "they would do what Deep Purple have (then) just done" and get the classic line up back together.

It's the same with Marbles - at first only a few things jumped out at me, but on subsequent listens it opens up like a flower!

I know others have found it to be more immediate, but it reminded me too much of their other recent stuff (Anoraknaphobia - a very "beige" album), which would explain why I wasn't so keen at first.

I liked "A Nod And A Wink" immediately! Great album.

Talking of "resurrecting", it'd be nice to have Syd back on form...

DoomHammer wrote: landberkdoten wrote: I know Camel released "A nod and a wink" (quite poor by the way) and this year's Marillion recording, "Marbles"; mmm... I just didn't like it believe me i first didnt like a nod and a wink that much when i first listened to it, but if you gave it another chance like i did you'd love it, specially the bonus track, and for today and a nod and a wink itself, i didnt hear marillion marbles yet

My experience with CAMEL has been quite special from the very beginning. I think this is maybe just me trying to balance everything they have produced yet arranged before and after “Mirage”, because this is the first CAMEL album I ever got… then came “Snow Goose” to my hands and oh-my-God! I just couldn’t believe that was the same band, an exquisite album with magnificent musicians… then I bumped my way into “Stationary Traveller” and my world completely changed, I loved CAMEL more and more and the cherry on top of the cake in this “CAMEL condition” of mine finally reached its peak when I purchased “Harbour of Tears”… one of my favorite albums by the way… and then, when I thought nothing could ever overpass what I have listened to so far, “Rajaz” showed up… what a beautiful, enticing, well arranged and executed album, it actually takes you all the way to the desert, to those landscapes only available within your imagination, I’m mostly in complete agree with you because I think this is their best album ever, not the best album ever… I love it anyway. So in that order of ideas, I react to CAMEL from the moment I pop the CD inside the stereo, and “A nod and a wink” didn’t make it for me… mellow, cheesy, a single prog formula almost pop formula, no, no… I happen to love some other CAMEL albums better than this one… Maybe as you say, I have to listen to it over and over again, but that ain’t the point to me, CAMEL is to be appreciated from the very beginning, not in an imperative way.

Regards,

Land

DoomHammer wrote: well Land that is an opinion from someone addicted to camel like myself, and maybe that is why i gave the album another chance, i couldnt believe it didnt chill me the first time i listened  listen to it again you will like it i promise

You know what man? I'll do that, I'll give it another try instead asking myself why I didn't like it in the first place...  I'm also addicted to CAMEL, so I deserve another round with "A nod and a wink" 

Take care!

Regards,

Land

Oops, I lied in my last post. Yes is also one of my favs. But they're still going strong. They don't need to re-form. Too bad they can't get along with Wakeman, though.

Wayman

Excuse me..but when did Rick W. become a "prick"? Why are you bringing his faith into the equation? He's been a Christian for a long time, now. In spite of barbed remarks by White and Squire several years back, Rick is still gracious enough to rejoin his Yes pals and keep on performing. Rick has a career outside of Yes. Does Alan? Nope. Chris? Sort of, but nothing spectacular -- what, Conspiracy with Billy Sherwood? Ha! Howe and Anderson do, but they don't perform live as frequently as Rick (Jon's solos are just studio albums; he's too busy with Yes). Sorry, but Yes needed Rick more than he needed them, and he still went back. I thought he never would, but he still did, and let me tell you, my shoe didn't taste very good, at all!

As for Geoff Downes: he was quite the proficient player in the '70s. Before the Buggles, even, he was in Isotope. I love Drama. I take great pleasure in how it deviates from the typical Yes sound. It's amazing, it's perfect, there's not a bad song on the album. One could say "White Car" isn't all that, but it's really just a very short Buggles piece, it's pleasant enough, and it's over with. "Machine Messiah" is just an incredible song, the heaviest Yes tune, ever. I practically took a dump when I first heard it.

Strangiato wrote: If somebody could assure me that a new Fish-Marillion association would produce songs like "Fugazi", I undoubtfully would vote for them. Anyway, a comeback of Pink Floyd sounds very attractive, too.

I'd be even more attractive if the whole bunch included Syd in the line-up  (what ever happened with him after the nuthouse thing and his hideous recordings from within?)