Famously, when Sniffin Glue fanzine was goinc, there was a reference to ".. sounds like "Highway Star", and I've always hated "Highway Star"..."
Penned by Baper, the famous typo.
Anyhow, ever since, the famous radio personality has recanted all this, saying he was, well, fibbing basically. And he liked Joni Mitchell, and so did the other SG writers then.
Now, here's me, as a kid, never liked Deep Purple much, so took this at face value at the time. But if he liked it really, fine.
Anyhow, in this months "Uncut", which I sneaked a look at this morning (Free Brucey tribute CD again), he's in the letters page stating a defence of Punk, and an attack on the 'untouchableness' that Disco, reggae, black music in general gets no critical viewpoints etc.
Then ends by stating that "Highway Star" is better than "No woman no cry" as a self-evident Truth!
ENOUGH!!!!
Now, I'm not much of a Marley fan. But even so, I know which is better. IN MY OPINION! but this is pushing it. (OK That's vague. I vote NWNC obviously)
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 6 October 2005 08:56 (twenty years ago)
Utterly classic. My favourite Purps song and my favourite Blackmore guitar solo, and I love that accidental motorik chug in the intro. I also love the way the guitar and bass and organ all play the same riff in Deep Purple - it makes them sound like electricity.
― Deluxe (Damian), Thursday, 6 October 2005 09:26 (twenty years ago)
classic, man, you need to see the live performance of it that vh1 classic shows from time to time. amazing guitar soloing and i hate guitar solos.
― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Thursday, 6 October 2005 09:34 (twenty years ago)
Well, No Woman No Cry is the third worst song ever written so it wouldn't be hard to better it.
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 6 October 2005 11:38 (twenty years ago)
So you guys align with D.Baker?
It's not so much the respective merits of the songs. It's more he pretended to hate it so as to appear cool, and has been apologising for it ever since, in greater and greater hyperbolae.
In ten years, he'll play nothing else on his radio show!
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 6 October 2005 11:43 (twenty years ago)
Is he still playing the same six records on his radio show as he usually does? Does he, in fact, still have a radio show?
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 6 October 2005 11:44 (twenty years ago)
yeah, but it was a given that you were supposed to hate on deep purple back then. and then, five years later, you end up like lydon going on and on about thunderclap newman or magma or whoever.
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 6 October 2005 11:47 (twenty years ago)
Well, at the time I didn't like them that much (still don't).
A lot of kids at school dropped their Yes,DeepPurp,ELP etcet when punk came in. I was more a pop kid anyway. But now, they all seem to e in the process of picking them back up again. (I'm guessing, I lost touch with the 'kids' for the most part after we all left 6thform)
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 6 October 2005 11:50 (twenty years ago)
actually lydon was going on about magma and kevin coyne and can and others in '77 - capital radio special with tommy vance (is that actually online somewhere?). hugely annoyed mclaren at the time 'cos it undermined the Year Zero meme.
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 7 October 2005 07:04 (twenty years ago)