[kj] OT: Billy Bragg: Proud to meet the Queen, have symphonic works performed w/ his lyrics

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

Honestly, I haven't heard the symphonic Led Zeppelin stuff and am not 
eager to. That sounds like one of the worst ideas in history to me.

Seriously, though, since being EU Composer-in-Residence, what has Jaz 
done other than make cameos on other bands' stuff? Is that what the job 
entails? I'd actually like to know. But I don't wanna sit through 
symphonies of classic rock. Ugh.

-Oliver




Brendan wrote:

> what's goin' on with Jaz and that high falutn '

> "EU-Composer-in-Residence" stuff? Hmm?  -Oliver]

>

> Expanding his musical interests wider and deeper, I think it's brilliant

> myself. Haven't got any of that stuff, but am keen to get the Symphonic

> Led Zep, Oceania etc...I've heard some of the symphonic version of Kashmir

> on Youtube and it sounds great to me...I tend to agree with him that all

> the previous symphonic rock albums are trash (although I do think that

> those symphonic / operatic elements in Queen, ELO, Beatles etc aren't too

> bad).

>

> I sat through a few songs of Metallica with an orchestra on telly a while

> back and it was god awful (to me)...didn't enhance the music at all, quite

> the opposite.