Thanks, Michael.....yes, Keaggy is vastly underrated (particularly as a guitar player), only really, as I hinted, because he's virtually completely unknown in the Top 40/popular/"secular" music world! You have such a rich point of reference (Glass Harp), Michael, to dip further into Phil's solo career (if you choose).
Thanks, Michael.....yes, Keaggy is vastly underrated (particularly as a guitar player), only really, as I hinted, because he's virtually completely unknown in the Top 40/popular/"secular" music world! You have such a rich point of reference (Glass Harp), Michael, to dip further into Phil's solo career (if you choose).
And, that's similar to how I view this "Sunday's Child" album! On its face, "it has no business existing," but I mean that only in the context of simply where it came from!! Given Phil's guitar-forward, hard psych-rock '60s beginning, how on earth does THIS album come from THAT pedigree?!? But, the fact that it does makes it all the more fascinatingly incredible!
We "expected" a Beatles-inspired album out of Rundgren (or, certainly weren't all that stunned when he and Utopia came with "Deface")!
I love your first-paragraph litany of "I didn't know"s, Michael (and I appreciate your candor)! That's virtual music to my ears, and is exactly the response from readers I was kinda hoping for, because that has been my suspicion for the last 30-plus years....that the album is on its own island, quite distanced from the mainstream "way" the general public who'd dig it could/would hear it!
I'm also anxious to hear from our community of Beatles collectors/fans/experts to not only hear their reaction, but, again......were they even aware this loving "tribute" even existed! I wonder if any of them ever feel "insulted" or otherwise reject albums like this or Todd's, or if they're able, generally, to accept works like this for what they are....aural "love letters" to their heroes/inspirations. We'll watch together!
Thanks, Michael.....yes, Keaggy is vastly underrated (particularly as a guitar player), only really, as I hinted, because he's virtually completely unknown in the Top 40/popular/"secular" music world! You have such a rich point of reference (Glass Harp), Michael, to dip further into Phil's solo career (if you choose).
And, that's similar to how I view this "Sunday's Child" album! On its face, "it has no business existing," but I mean that only in the context of simply where it came from!! Given Phil's guitar-forward, hard psych-rock '60s beginning, how on earth does THIS album come from THAT pedigree?!? But, the fact that it does makes it all the more fascinatingly incredible!
We "expected" a Beatles-inspired album out of Rundgren (or, certainly weren't all that stunned when he and Utopia came with "Deface")!
I love your first-paragraph litany of "I didn't know"s, Michael (and I appreciate your candor)! That's virtual music to my ears, and is exactly the response from readers I was kinda hoping for, because that has been my suspicion for the last 30-plus years....that the album is on its own island, quite distanced from the mainstream "way" the general public who'd dig it could/would hear it!
I'm also anxious to hear from our community of Beatles collectors/fans/experts to not only hear their reaction, but, again......were they even aware this loving "tribute" even existed! I wonder if any of them ever feel "insulted" or otherwise reject albums like this or Todd's, or if they're able, generally, to accept works like this for what they are....aural "love letters" to their heroes/inspirations. We'll watch together!