Article 16439 of alt.music.progressive: Newsgroups: alt.music.progressive Path: news.claremont.edu!paris.ics.uci.edu!csulb.edu!library.ucla.edu!agate!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!cbnewsk!kalang From: kalang@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (kenneth.lang) Subject: Re: Emerson, Lake & Palmer & Regis & Kathy Lee (& Anil Prasad) Organization: AT&T Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1993 17:58:46 GMT Message-ID: References: <1993Nov19.003336.15875@pony.ingres.com> <2chlrv$bit@jaws.cs.hmc.edu> <1993Nov19.123945.26588@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> Lines: 46 In article <1993Nov19.123945.26588@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> warren@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Warren J Lynn) writes: >In article <2chlrv$bit@jaws.cs.hmc.edu> jstimson@jarthur.cs.hmc.edu (John Stimson) writes: > >Who is Hackett? > >Warren. Who is Hackett ?? Why, Clyde Hackett of course, one of the most prominent prog guitarists of the last 10 years. Clyde started his career with the band Exodus, heralded as a cross between Magma and Styx. Unfortunately, Hackett got bored and quit the group two albums later. He then went into the recording studio with noted bassist Weeble Wobble and emerged 6 months later with his groundbreaking album "Notes". "Notes" consisted of two side-long tracks of one sustained note on guitar while Weeble alternated between complex bass lines in 12/8 and coughing and wheezing. (Weeble was fighting an addiction to midballs, a process of snorting smoldering moth balls , but I digress). After the release of "Notes" and an unsuccessful tour, Hackett, disgusted with the commercialization of the music industry, went into seclusion. Hackett emerged on the scene just two years ago with a new musical instrument he had developed while hanging around his Manchester salmon farm. The instrument, called the flugelaxe, was a horn-shaped gizmo with strings and electric pick-ups instead of valves. Hackett formed another band with some friends from his Exodus years, called Spastic Testicles, which featured two lead flugelaxes. The band recruited Geddy Leeder, a former gas station attendant, as their lead vocalist. Leeder, who would only record after breathing large amounts of helium, sang in a high-pitched growl which was a vital ingredient of the Spastics sound. Rounding out the quartet was noted jazz drummer, Willy Bruchrysler who left his band Dirtworks to join up with Hackett's crowd. The lineup rehearsed for months, until internal fighting caused them to go their separate ways, days after the release of an album. (MuWorks 234X678) Presently, Clyde Hackett and Geddy Leeder are still on speaking-terms, and are trying to get the other band members to embark on a reunion tour sometime this April. Then again, it could be Steve Hackett from Genesis...Naaaaaaaah. -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ * Ken Lang kalang@cbnewsk.cb.att.com AT&T * *"On the Planet Gong they say, if everything goes wrong today - fill your * * teapot up with tea, and come and take a ride with me." - Daevid Allen *