Dirk Star
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Posted: April 16 2008, 07:57 |
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Both Wonderful Land and Arrival were inspired choices for covers for Mike`s QE2 album.And still remain two of my favourite shorter instrumental pieces from Mike.There are so many great Shadows instrumentals of course an entire album of them would be a great idea I think...Apache,Man Of Mystery,A Place In The Sun.Theme For Young Lovers would be a good one to do,as it has a slightly folksy type melody going on to it anyway.And what would Mike make of the "impossible" guitar solo from The Savage one wonders?Would be great to find out that`s for sure.
Maybe Mike could do an album crossing over all those twangy type instrumental guitar guys from that period like Duane Eddy,Surfaris,The Ventures etc.Or even Sandy Nelson`s infamous track "Let There Be Real Instruments"  I dare say even Mike would be able to make Burt Weedon sound cool.Although that would be testing the guy to the utmost reaches of his ability no question.
I quite like Caveman`s idea of Mike doing an album of his early influences,which is something that a few people have done now.What the hell he`d do from The Rolling Stones back catalogue would be anybody`s guess.But I`m sure he`d come up with something unique and wonderful.
With Mike just making his first classical album,it would be maybe quite interesting to hear Mike`s own take on some classical pieces.I`m thinking more in that "organic band" style that Bassman mentions here, rather than anything too William Orbit.Rhapsody In Blue or Pavane For A Dead Princess etc would be two interesting one`s to do "off the top of my head".(So ok I`m listening to an album with versions of those two tracks on it at the moment from Eumir Deodato ) 
Seriously though I can`t remember what Mike`s favourite classical pieces are now but I think it would be quite a good/fun thing for him to do.I`d maybe like to see him do it with a bit more ambition than he showed for some of The Voyager album though.Although I`m not having a go at Voyager there as I`m quite fond of that album.
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