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Gandalff 
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Posted: August 19 2012 at 04:22 |
Well. Two amazing persons and influential sax players with a similar style, e.g. simultaneous playing on 2 saxophones. Dick Heckstall-Smith (1934-2004) was always rather to Jazz and Blues, on the other hand David Jackson (1947) tends to Eclectic Prog.
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Posted: August 19 2012 at 06:08 |
What a poll !! The ancient history of prog coming back from the fogs of Time 
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Posted: August 19 2012 at 12:41 |
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David Jackson!
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Posted: August 19 2012 at 15:15 |
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Posted: August 19 2012 at 15:24 |
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Yeah! I can vote now! Jackson for me...
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Hercules
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Posted: August 19 2012 at 15:24 |
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Dick Heckstall-Smith was not only a better player than David Jackson (or practically anyone else for that matter) but he played in Colosseum, one of the most gifted bands in the early prog scene.
Edited by Hercules - August 19 2012 at 15:25
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presdoug
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Posted: August 19 2012 at 16:37 |
 Hercules wrote:
Dick Heckstall-Smith was not only a better player than David Jackson (or practically anyone else for that matter) but he played in Colosseum, one of the most gifted bands in the early prog scene. |
This. Dick also did a great solo album called A Story Ended in '72.
Edited by presdoug - August 19 2012 at 16:41
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Posted: August 19 2012 at 17:08 |
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david!!!
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Hercules
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Posted: August 19 2012 at 17:39 |
presdoug wrote:
Hercules wrote:
Dick Heckstall-Smith was not only a better player than David Jackson (or practically anyone else for that matter) but he played in Colosseum, one of the most gifted bands in the early prog scene. |
This.
Dick also did a great solo album called A Story Ended in '72.
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An album I've always meant to listen to, but never have.
I would also say that Jackson is actually an excellent player (though I don't like VDGG because of Hamill's vocal and compositional style) but Heckstall Smith is a true virtuoso.
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Posted: August 19 2012 at 18:48 |
Jackson... Arrow 
Edited by bytor2112 - August 19 2012 at 18:49
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Posted: August 19 2012 at 23:38 |
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Through a technical context, and just as an overall player, Dick is much more accomplished in my opinion, but Jackson was such a unique asset to VDGG's music and motif - integral. We would have never had songs like The Sleepwalkers, A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers and Emperor In His War Room if it wasn't for Jackson's knack of gloomy, ambient Sax and Flute. Not to mention, he had some pretty tasty licks himself.
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Posted: August 19 2012 at 23:39 |
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Jackson gets my vote.
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Posted: August 20 2012 at 01:31 |
I voted for Dick. I'm not just a huge fan of Blues, thus I don't have his early records with Korner and Mayall. But - Colosseum is a higher level! Accomplished mixture of Blues, Jazz and Hard Rock, perfectly played by all excellent musicians.
On the other hand, I've never understood to a dark, would-be philosophical and eclectic style of Van der Graaf Generator. Actually, I like only Pawn Hearts unreservedly.
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Na-chaered palan-díriel
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Hercules
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Posted: August 20 2012 at 15:52 |
Gandalff wrote:
I voted for Dick. I'm not just a huge fan of Blues, thus I don't have his early records with Korner and Mayall. But - Colosseum is a higher level! Accomplished mixture of Blues, Jazz and Hard Rock, perfectly played by all excellent musicians.
On the other hand, I've never understood to a dark, would-be philosophical and eclectic style of Van der Graaf Generator. |
This may be the first time we've ever agreed!
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Actually, I like only Pawn Hearts unreservedly
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But sadly not for long!
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Posted: August 20 2012 at 15:57 |
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^Myself, i like only Pawn Hearts, unreservedly.
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Posted: August 21 2012 at 01:58 |
Dick
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