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Kleynan 
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 Topic: Is Roy Wood a genius?
Posted: August 21 2006 at 10:06 |
Wood himself is mentioned as singer as well as player of guitars, bass guitar, sitar, cello, double bass, saxophones, clarinet, trombone, tuba, recorders, oboe, French horn, banjo, mandolin, bassoon, drums, percussion, vibraphone, bagpipes and keyboards. 
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You've just had a heavy session of electroshock therapy, and you're more relaxed than you've been in weeks.
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lightbulb_son
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Posted: August 21 2006 at 10:26 |
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Hmmm. Never heard of him.
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Chicapah
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Posted: August 21 2006 at 10:40 |
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As a lifelong fan of The Move I must inform y'all that Roy Wood was so
far ahead of his time that we're still trying to catch up with
him. He was absolutely fearless in incorporating odd instruments
and strange sound bites into the music they created. Just give a
listen to "Cherry Blossom Clinic" from the Shazam album and you'll hear
what I'm talking about. They may not have been on a par with the
Fab Four, Who, Stones or Kinks but they were never boring and always
entertaining.
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"Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain
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Gog/Magog
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Posted: August 21 2006 at 10:42 |
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No, for the simple fact that he wished it could be Christmas every day, we'd all be dead from over indulgence (and flat broke)!
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Kleynan
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Posted: August 21 2006 at 14:10 |
 lightbulb_son wrote:
Hmmm. Never heard of him. |
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You've just had a heavy session of electroshock therapy, and you're more relaxed than you've been in weeks.
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Logan
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Posted: August 21 2006 at 14:14 |
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A genius, I don't know, but a very talented guy.
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Sean Trane
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Posted: August 22 2006 at 03:51 |
I always had trouble with The Move.
But Roy Wood's contributions to ELO's debut is awesome >>> 5* album.
I just never understood why he chose to do his Wizzard album just basic RnR.
I always founs the album he recorded pitifully poor sound quality, though.
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Dick Heath
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Posted: August 22 2006 at 11:18 |
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Married Annie Haslam didn't he? BTW Please don't misuse the word 'genius', when 'mulit-instrumentalist' is apt. Move was an interesting band - takes something to be sued by the then British Prime Minister Harold Wilson. First record played on Radio One was the Move's psychedelic classic I Can Hear The Grass Grow. Weren't they on the same label as Tyrannasaurus Rex, Procol Harum and Joe Cocker - Regal Zenophone (i.e. considered as an 'underground band')? Long thought if Roy Wood had reminded with ELO, the saccharine edge would not have developed on the 'let's do an Eleanor Rigby instumentation to other rock tunes' concept they had.
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salmacis
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Posted: August 22 2006 at 12:41 |
I love The Move but not a lot else. 'Night Of Fear' was an early attempt at prog rock in some ways, but is one of the ultimate psych records whatever else it may be. However, those awfully saccharine Wizzard hits will forever tarnish his name...
Roy Wood emerged in the 80s on a Rick Wakeman (!) album called 'Time Machine'- he sang on a track called 'Custer's Last Stand'.
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Intruder
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Posted: August 23 2006 at 05:23 |
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Talented, yes....but a genius? Kind of lost it after leaving ELO after the first record. The Move and some of his early solo stuff is groovy if at times a bit raw.....his later stuff is just generic rock 'n' roll.
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I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there.....
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Is Roy Wood a genius?
