Prog-rock covers you'd want to hear

 

I've thought about this before ... and I've heard a couple of versions of Turandot and Tosca and The Firebird Suite ... and it's hard not to want to see (and laugh) the German Conductor shape up them Italians (Fellini!) ... so ... yeah ...

 

1st. Trash American Symphonies and Orchestras for not having the guts to play Frank Zappa. And cut their funding until they learn that there is more music out there than John Williams!

 

2nd. Double kill these same Symphonies and Orchestras until the day they are courageous enough to give us a Vangelis piece, or a Mike Oldfield piece, and not skimp it to 4 minutes John Williams style!

 

3rd. I would love to see someone have the guts to get on stage and say ... we're going to play Tales of Topographic Oceans in its entirety. If you want to leave we will give you your money back. If not, we're going to live and die with one of the most beautiful things ever written in rock music!

 

4th. Put Nektar's Recycled on a stage with film and dancers. And they will all "die" on the last song since ... it's all over now!

 

5th. I want to find a band that is not afraid, and I want to stage them. We will blow out the audience and leaving people all going ... wow ... what was that? ... but I guarantee you they will come to see it again. If you are just into rock'n'roll get lost!

 

6th. I want to stage "Passion Play" and invite Ian to sit on the best seat in the house. And my version will incorporate the "cover" and create a Marat/Sade style concept with the reviewers and rock afficionados playing the part of the French Aristocracy! Not sure how I'm going to use the cabbages yet!

 

7th. I have a complete film "scenario" for all parts of "Wish You Were Here" ... only problem is ... I don't think a lot of people are going to like what they see, since they have never heard the original greatest gig in the sky ... which David Byrne and Eno did later (sort of) in that album about the bush of something or other. I even think that Roger would say ... I have nothing to do with it! ... but like it.

 

8th. I want to make a film about Kevin Ayers, Robert Wyatt, Daevid Allen, Syd Barrett, Burroughs, Ginsberg ... and the veritable orgy that house was in both drugs and every thing else! It should make "Naked Lunch" come off as totally absurd and stupid!  Not sure I want to end this with Robert leaving a party via the drain pipes, but it seems as good a reason to end it as anything else ... specially when him and Daevid are not bitter about those old days, and still talk about it some in their own work! I was thinking that Brad Pitt would make a really good Kevin Ayers!

 

 

 

I'm sure this would sound interesting

Man-erg and Refugees sung by Joan Baez.