Ged Lynch

[Tom Hipskind]

Originally posted by CLWarunki:
Regarding Weckl and "pop bands"... interesting to imagine it, but I think Weckl is at his best doing "his thing", if you know what I mean.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Totally agree, Chris. No offense to Weck; he's great, but IMO he truly belongs in a jazz-fusion world now. I'm sure he'd do an admirable job with Sting or PG, but he's no longer the studio chameleon he was in the '80s; his sound has become much more specific and moved away from the pop/rock format. And that's perfectly okay; I just have no desire to hear him in that context, I guess.

-Tom

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ October 05, 2004 02:51 AM: Message edited by: Tom Hipskind ]</font>

[Tom Hipskind]

I saw the Peter Gabriel tour in Chicago (first show of the tour!) in 2002 and have the DVD. Really nice show, as always, from PG! I thought Ged Lynch did an okay job but sounded a bit heavy-handed. Yeah, he's solid, but after the incredible energy, musicality, and punch Manu put into the Secret World tour, my prevailing impression is basically that "just laying it down hard" simply isn't enough with Peter Gabriel. You have to be more interesting. Nothin' against him. Nice bloke, fine player, but a straight-ahead rock slammer on a finesse-and-flurry gig.

-Tom

[FuseU1]

incredible energy, musicality, and punch Manu put into the Secret World tour

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">TOTALLY agree, TH. [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img] [img]cool.gif[/img]

[but I hear MK had seven days to learn the material for that tour... [img]wink.gif[/img] [img]tongue.gif[/img] ] J/K!
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<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ October 05, 2004 02:09 PM: Message edited by: FuseU1 ]</font>

[Si71]

Totally agree with Tom and Fuse:

Whilst Ged's drumming is solid, the PG gig needs a drummer with finesse, such as Manu. Ged is somewhat workmanlike and heavy handed and kind of plays four on the floor for everything, whereas there was more of a syncopated feel from Manu, e.g. on tracks like Red Rain. I felt Manu's style worked better with Tony Levin's bass playing.

[ab0u910e]

Hi guys,

You gotta check out Ged's work with Black Grape. Unlike his playing with Gabriel, here you can hear him cut loose a little bit with a really nice funky feel!

I reccommend their album, "Its Great When You're Straight Yeah". I love the first track, I seem to remember it being called "In the Name of the Father".

I hope this of some use!


Jonathan

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