1/1/2023 0 Comments Wilko johnson andy gillThe album was chock full of stone-cold classics Damaged Goods, Naturals Not In It (used during the title sequence of the Marie Antoinette), Not Great Men, Anthrax and Ether. The album is caustic and bursting with disgust for unethical capitalism, opportunist politicians, and consumer society, among other things, but it’s also crafted with amazing pop sensibility- it is also remarkably danceable. GANG OF FOUR’s Entertainment! may have been a sarcastic title, but it wasn’t entirely inaccurate. Lot more people are aware of what the issues are. We may not have arrived anywhere just yet, but at least a Happened in recent years and all the rest of it, people have become aware of It throws you for a loop.” Gill continues: “Through all the things that have Sometimes historyĭoesn’t go in the way you think it might go. Progressive place and there’d become less gender inequality. Think a lot of people thought that maybe the world would become a slightly more And I sometimes say that back then, I think I thought and I It feels like these words are as relevant now as they Style and angst driven lyrics are still relevant today as they were whenĮntertainment! was first released. Well, not really funky, but tight and repetitive. In a way, he’s like the antecedent for Nile Rodgers, with that kind of very tight, funky playing. And then, at the other extreme, the very, very tight funkiness sort of like Steve Cropper playing on those Stax records. So I guess, in terms of guitar, on the one hand, I like the sheer noise and freeform nature of Hendrix and I suppose to a certain extent I like The Velvet Underground. When Hendrix eventually came out with Band of Gypsys, which was much more the kind of funk-orientated record, I thought that was amazing, fantastic. Sort of a very wide-ranging bunch of stuff. So, I guess, Bob Dylan, James Brown, Stax music, Motown. Gill continues about the music he listened to growing up: “For some reason, a lot of it was American. A younger Gill “sort of liked The Stones quite a lot”, then as a young teenager he was “very, very into Hendrix”. Gill’s music tastes are eclectic and helped form his own distinctive style in Gang of Four. And some Mexican stuff, I can’t … Yeah, I like things that have got a little bit of chilli in them. And blackened redfish or salmon, which also is a Cajun thing. The other 5% is probably in the kitchen making fantastic food – cajun gumbo, lobster or prawn gumbo is a favourite. So, I’d be lying if that wasn’t like 95% of what I end up doing. Whether it’s making the music or whether it’s sitting at a laptop for most of the day trying to organise things with other people that work with me. The Gang of Four‘s founding member and guitarist states: “Anybody who was observing my life would say my scene is clearly Gang of Four and spending pretty much all day, every day, in some respect, on Gang of Four. Andy Gill’s scene is simply Gang of Four.
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