Guy's Forum

[LoveExpresso]

According to Guy's forum answer from today: no Eric Clapton contribution on Mark's new record although he was at BG for the JJ project.

Thank god for that. I don't want to have an MK album being polluted with EC guitar.

LE

[vgonis]

Too bad EC is not playing. One of the players that I suppose having a studio collaboration seems quite natural. Good thing we have these JJ songs and the live recordings!

[dmg]

According to Guy's forum answer from today: no Eric Clapton contribution on Mark's new record although he was at BG for the JJ project.

Thank god for that. I don't want to have an MK album being polluted with EC guitar.

LE

Probably a good thing bearing in mind EC's penchant for having his guitar volume higher than anyone else's and his insistence on beginning and ending every musical interchange. 

[yontwocrows]

This album project stays kind of mysterious to me. I've the feeling of a very, very short band session and a very long term of just Mark an Guy doing some stuff (no clue at all what stuff). That can't be the whole story... What is Guy keeping secret?

[LoveExpresso]

Interesting, isn't it? It seems Richard is indeed not on board this time.

Remember, a song like Redbud Tree was recorded only from Mark and Guy basically, with some overdubs from PF. Also songs like River of Grog don't need a lot of band attribution.. True Love Will Never Fade is another example, just acoustic guitar, laid over lead guitar, that's it. Ian and Glen are there, so the rhythm section is the same as usual. And Mr. Molsky is seen with an acoustic on a pic or two, too!

I mentioned earlier that I expect the typcial MK antagonism work to his last album... an intimate, more or less real solo session... some folk stuff will be inevitable, I just hope it won't be too much... I loved the live version of Baloney Again for example, only the Man and an electric guitar.. would be great to have stuff like that. I can live with no Richard on the next album (he wasn't on Kill To Get Crimson, too), but it would really be a mess if he would also be kicked out of the tour band.. .

LE

[yontwocrows]

You're right. Folk will be in, transam-session-like songs as well. i hope that there are some rock riff songs in it, too. Always like a mixture of slow and fast, nice and aggressive, but i fear ... hm?
There are still some unreleased songs of the privateering record. Maybe they use it now?

[JF]

Probably a good thing bearing in mind EC's penchant for having his guitar volume higher than anyone else's and his insistence on beginning and ending every musical interchange. 

I see what you mean, but Duane won against Eric at the end of Layla, having the last lick, known as "bird singing" 

[LoveExpresso]

Referring to my last post, Gator Blood and Song For Sonny Liston are other examples - I mean the live versions... little three piece, with only Glen, Ianto and Mark on Sonny, or Gator Blood with only Glenn, Guy and Ianto... just want to say that good energy and rock songs with a lot of guitar not automatically have to be played with the full band...

Not sure about the old songs though.. a song once rejected, has it really hard to get on the next album normally... songs like Secondary Waltz or 5:15 AM with a very long evolution are only proving the rule..

LE

[Tally]

Only Mark and Guy in the studio, and no guest appearence by Clapton despite being in the studio...

I'm getting Kill to get Crimson vibes. And I don't like it.

[wayaman]

Ktgc... I love it. Good record and great tour full of surprises.

[border_reiver]

Ktgc II 

Noooooooooooo

Let's rather hope for a transatlantic inspired mix between GH and RPD. Should sound fantastic 

[vgonis]

I tend to think that KTGC is a sleeper. After my initial thought that it is tiring, I tend to think that it is good, but for quieter moments.

[superval99]

Ktgc... I love it. Good record and great tour full of surprises.

I like it too - there's a certain aura about it that takes me back in time.   The KTGC tour was, in effect, an RPD tour -  beautiful songs, many heard for the first time live, from that album.   

[dmg]

KTGC?  Oh yeah I think I remember that.  Wasn't that the tour where John McCusker didn't get his work permit on time and missed the start of the North American leg?  The album's not exactly burned out through over play though!  More likely I'd have to dust it off.  As vgonis said: "sleeper."  And in more ways than one for me.

[LoveExpresso]

To see it more positive, maybe MK has the same approach as in 2006/2007 with Kill To Get Crimson nowadays but also thinks the result back then wasn't too satisfying in a certain way. And so he tries it once more.

I agree that you easily can call Kill To Get Crimson a weak record. I like it nevertheless. But it has a somewhat sterile aura and really sounds as the opposite of session-played tracks on, let's say, Privateering or Shangri-La...

LE