knight@rlgvax.UUCP (Steve Knight) (04/17/84)
> John Williams is my favorite guitarist. We're really comparing > apples and oranges here; he plays classical guitar and you folks seem > to be arguing about rock. Just to keep the waters nice and muddy, John Williams (yes, classical quitar John Williams) actually does play with a "rock" group, although the group is, of course, somewhat more tame than most. Group's name is Sky (one 'y', not two), and is made up of a rather impressive band of musicians with no small amount of classical training between them. They have four albums out, although I don't believe the first was released domestically. Their best album is their second, a double album that was released in the U.S. as "Sky," elsewhere as "Sky 2;" it includes a "cover" of the Toccata from Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. The fourth album was a disappointment, being nothing but arrangements of classical pieces. Otherwise, the writing and arranging are generally inventive, the playing is top-notch (it *is* JW, after all), and they're definitely worth checking out if you're the sort that doesn't find groups who will do rockish versions of classical pieces pretentious by definition. -- "If you lived here, you'd be home by now." Steve Knight {seismo,allegra,some other sites}!rlgvax!knight