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From: knight@rlgvax.UUCP (Steve Knight)
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Subject: Re: My Favorite Guitarists  [Sky?]
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Date: Mon, 16-Apr-84 17:51:24 EST
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> 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
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