--- Sez Kenneth Newman to Tony Rigby ---
 KN> On 08-26-96 TONY RIGBY wrote to KENNETH NEWMAN... 
 TR>  I don't know GG at all. 
 KN> Well, I have some good news for you. There is a wonderful 
 KN> band you have yet to discover that made at least 8 albums 
 KN> which deserve being called no less than excellent. 
I received a 2 CD _Giant For A Life_ tribute album yesterday...
Inasmuch as I only own their first 4 albums (_GG_ & _Acquiring The
Taste_ on CD, _Three Friends_ & _Octopus_ on LP), plus the
_Civilian_ cutout LP, much of the material is far less familiar
to me than a Yes or Genesis tribute would be...
So, can you review for me which other GG albums to look for (used vinyl
most likely, cheap CD's, possibly), and any to look out for?
I'm somewhat leery of '70's live albums since the main sonic goal
often seemed to be to mix the audience real loud, to the same end
as canned laughter on sitcoms...  And ELP sure put out some stinkers.
Though some would disagree, I find _Yesshows_ to be on the redundant
side of useless or the useless side of redundant.  OTOH, the live
BBC recordings of Nils Lofgren and Sensational Alex Harvey Band
I've got seem to work pretty well on CD... 
And I guess I'll reprint the rest of this old message just as an
example of a future interim moderator keeping digressions semi-topical..
 TR> Are you saying that some of their 1970-1971 material 
 TR> a) sounds similar to Bowie's material of the time 
 KN> Inasmuch as they were both produced by Tony Visconti, who 
 KN> was a bit of a genius at the time. 
 TR> and b) that this is true of _both_ "The Man Who Sold The 
 TR> World" _and_ "Hunkydory"? 
 KN> They are both equally "proggy" inasmuch as they aren't 
 KN> properly speaking proggy but had certain tendencies, 
 KN> though they are both proggy in different ways, one of the 
 KN> main ones being Wakeman's presence on _HD_ 
DM
... I didn't do it... Nobody saw me do it... You can't prove anything...
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