On 04-02-97 GEORGE ERDNER wrote to SCOTT R. GODIN... 
 
 GE> Because too many of the people who made up Gentle Giant have retired 
 GE> from music. 
 
        Actually, only Derek has retired as a musician, though as 
        a record company exec he has hardly retired from music. 
        He gave us Jon Bon Jovi and Cinderella and a few other 
        monstrosities. Mind, he's not as thin as he used to be. 
 
        Phil Sulman wants to come out of retirement to do the 
        project. 
 
        IAE, IMHO, I would rather see a new Kerry Minnear solo 
        album with support fom ex-Giants than some reformed Giant 
        album. Few die-hard GG fans agree with me, tho. 
 
 GE> Would "Days of Future 
 GE> Passed" have sounded better if the Moodies would have used the 
 GE> Festival 
 GE> Orchestra on the songs themselves, instead of just as bridges between 
 GE> the songs? Or does the synthetic nature of the Mellotron add an extra 
 GE> sonic dimension that is an improvement over the sound of the actual 
 GE> instruments? 
 
        Definitely. Tron rules. The real orch would just sound 
        cheesy. 
 
 GE> Or how about, would the music of Yes have sounded better if the lead 
 GE> singer's voice weren't so thin and reedy? 
 
        At least his voice wasn't as thin and reedy as the 
        back-up singers. No, what makes the vocals is Anderson's 
        hard pronunciation of the letter "r" which is only found 
        in a few places in England. 
 
 GE> Would a vocalist with a more 
 GE> full-bodied voice, like Ian Gillian, have improved the music, or 
 GE> detracted from it? 
 
        Or someone like Trevor Rabin? 
 
 GE> Better yet, what about if Annie Hallam (lead singer 
 GE> of Renaisance) had done the vocals? 
 
        Not feminine enough. 
 
 GE> Or is the tonal quality of the 
 GE> singer's voice as important to the overall sound of the music as the 
 GE> choice of instrumentation? 
 
        I though the key factor was the singer had to be a 
        vegetarian, which is one of the reasons they never asked 
        Ted Nugent to do the job. 
 
                                Cheers, 
                                Kenneth 
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