Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amd!decwrl!decvax!genrad!wjh12!foxvax1!brunix!rch From: rch@brunix.UUCP (Rich Yampell) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Classic Records Message-ID: <9558@brunix.UUCP> Date: Tue, 18-Sep-84 15:02:36 EDT Article-I.D.: brunix.9558 Posted: Tue Sep 18 15:02:36 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 21:53:25 EDT References: druny.1033, <410@uwvax.ARPA> Lines: 24 Having just joined this net, I've missed, I'm sure, much of this list, so I apologise in advance for any duplication, but if you're going to list 'Classic Records', then a couple come to mind that may well have escaped the list thus far: Return to Forever: Romantic Warrior Kansas: Song for America Al DiMeola: Elegant Gypsy Chicago: Chicago Transit Authority (Chicago I) Beethoven: Any good recording of Symphony 3 ('Eroica') ----- Note: One axiom which I have often found true in music is that if you want to hear the *really* good stuff a band has done, you should go back to the *early* albums. Many bands seem to degenerate as time goes on and they become wealthy and comfortable, and become more interested in being{ wealthy and comfortable than in making great music [one of the few exceptions to this pattern is the Beatles, which is really what made them so great]. Thus, if you haven't heard *early* Kansas or *early* Chicago and are only familiar with their more recent works, then you'll be very{ surprised if you listen to the albums I mention for them. Particularly Chicago. Most people today don't tend to think of Chicago as a band capable of doing excellent 15-minute guitar jams, for example.