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Band Amnesty Week!
Posted by tkdmart on 9 October 2009 - 12:19pm.
I'm declaring Band Amnesty Week.
I for one would love to hear Chris Squire playing and singing on the ABWH material.
I'd love to hear Jon Anderson on the 'Drama' stuff.
Waters adding to later Floyd, anyone?
How about Hackett on later Genesis material, or Genesis on Hackett material? Or Gabriel on both?
Massive, Let's get out the olive branch and Rock!
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The Jam
It's a real shame that so few of those songs get performed now.
If Weller wants to keep his integrity, they could go out as Paul Weller with Rick Buckler and Bruce Foxton from From The Jam. (this © Joe Muggs)
As a self declared Jam fan
I'm sorry but I couldn't think of anything worse.
Time has moved on and the songs should be left as the legacy.
No reunion, no "for one night only", no album reditions on individual nights - just leave us with the songs.
If you want the "live" experience there's a hundred bootlegs to explore.
Now ducks below the desk for the inevitable Paul Weller bashing comments
Another Jam fan sez..........
I can't think of anything better.
After 20 odd years of solo work, another 7 years of Style Council work and yet the biggest cheer for any song Weller does live, is for an old Jam number. Many from people who were a long long way from being born when Beat Surrender brought the curtain down.
Is it better at a Weller gig to see the old mooch hands of Weller, Craddock, Minchella, White, Starkey or Nelson churn out a jazz direction version of Town Called Malice than to see Foxton and Buckler do the same, only better? For all of his much admired "integrity" he wouldn't lose any by playing a one off show at, say, the O2. Not from this member of The Jam fan club in any case.
Public Image Ltd
Jah Wobble and Keith Levene just had to be involved in the re-formation of PIL surely?
Levene
Any PiL reunion is a sham without the genius behind the music - Keith Levene.
Agreed, but the basslines
Agreed, but the basslines and bass sound were all Wobble's weren't they?
Wobble was
that special ingredient
Mr. E
Gary Marx, Craig Adams and maybe even Jerry Lovelocke bury the hatchets, knives, skewers and syringes and give the faithful what they need.
Andy, Craig, Gary and
Ben Gunn surely?
aye
I'd take him over the other bloke, good call
Bill Berry
rejoins R.E.M. Please. Pretty (persuasion) please.
Peter Green
rejoins Fleetwood Mac and forms a twin guitar attack with Lindsey Buckingham. It could be astonishingly good...
Talking Heads
I would love it, just love it!
I'll second that one
Yes please.
Thirded
For me, that would be The One. (Although, I suspect, also The Least Likely...)
Gene Loves Jezebel - no Amnesty is going to fix this...
one for James Blast...
Bear in mind that Jay & Michael are identical twins...makes Noel and Liam seem like best buddies.
A tale of two Jezebels (from Wikipedia)
Although Michael had again left the band, he began performing with the band from the earlier US tour using the Gene Loves Jezebel name.[3] According to Michael, he refused to be pushed out of the band after all of the work he put into the reunion. When Jay and the band returned to the UK, they released VII without the three tracks that Michael had sung on.[3]
In October 1997, Jay sued Michael over rights to the name "Gene Loves Jezebel", and after a protracted court battle, Jay eventually dropped all charges. According to Jay, he dropped the suit after receiving assurances that Michael would not use the name. Jay Aston then continued using the name,[4] and Michael subsequently trademarked the "Gene Loves Jezebel" name in the United States,[3][4] while Jay owns the UK trademark.
Since the late 90s there have been two versions of Gene Loves Jezebel, causing confusion among fans.[3][5] Michael leads the US version of the band and has toured both the US and the UK supporting releases such as Love Lies Bleeding (1999), Giving Up the Ghost (2001) and Exploding Girls (2003).[4] Jay Aston leads the UK version of the band, also featuring James Stevenson and Pete Rizzo, and has toured both the US and the UK extensively as well to support releases such as Accept No Substitutes (2002),The Thornfield Sessions (2003) and The Anthology, Vols. 1-2 (2006).
Jay, Stevenson, Rizzo, and Robert Adam had recently been sued for trademark infringement in the U.S.[6] In a posting on their MySpace page on September 25th, Jay Aston's Gene Loves Jezebel announced that an agreement had been reached with Michael regarding the use of the name Gene Loves Jezebel. Jay Aston's band will be known as "Gene Loves Jezebel" outside of the U.S. and "Jay Aston's Gene Loves Jezebel" within the U.S. Michael Aston's band will be known as "Gene Loves Jezebel" in the U.S. and "Michael Aston's Gene Loves Jezebel" outside the U.S.
I was aware there was some enmity
between the twins, I didn't know it was that petty and vindictive
not a great band but some excellent tunes
thankee Retro
Morrissey and Joyce?
Would be interesting. To say the least.
Or a WWF Cage Fight Winner Takes All bout between
In the red corner......David van Day's Bucks Fizz
and
In the blue corner.....Mike Nolan's Bucks Fizz
Cheryl Baker, Jay Aston, Shelley Preston and Thereza Bazaar are the ring girls...
Let's get ready to ruuuuuummmble!
I'd pay
to see that.
Knopfler Bros...
..anyone? No? Okay, I'll get my coat..
am i alone...
...in wanting to see the John Foxx and Billy Currie kiss and make-up and get the first ultravox line-up back on stage? systems of romance popped up on the ipod the other day and slow motion is still a cracker.
You are not alone...
As I mentioned on another thread, the good thing (well, one of the good things...) about the Word Blog community is finding out you are not alone! Why, I've discovered people that actually like Punk Rock (sshhh...), Sisters of Mercy, Fleshtones...and there are even a couple of Reading FC fans here too...marvellous!
Those first couple of Ultravox albums with John Foxx are excellent - very underated and totally ignored in the Punk/New Wave retrospectives.
My lovely FPO is a huge fan of John Foxx with Ultravox and solo and she nearly fainted when he was interviewed on that Synth Britannia programme. Partly the shock of him actually getting a bit of recognition but also due to the fact that he looked quite old and normal and spoke like Fred Trueman! Being foreign and being a fan since her youth before her English improved, she always imagined him to be some arty fopp who sounded like Oscar Wilde...