Davy O'Lists alarmingly...
The webmaster is pleased to present to you Parts II, III and IV of 'More Guff in the Tradition of Too Much Elephant Tranquilliser'. All extracts come from the alarmingly bombastic website. All spelling, emphasis and punctuation is in the original.
"David then wrote some new songs and took his original idea of THE NICE name and the new fusion music he invented for the group, a fusion of Classical music, modern jazz and rock, up to Andrew Oldham The Rolling Stones manager and got a Recording Agreement, Management and Agency. The invention by Davy O List was later to become known as Classic Rock; due to the classical music content that David included, wrote, arranged and taught to Keith Emerson, which is how the ELP sound originated, through Davy".
He wrote all the classical music, you see, and taught it to the humble Keith Emerson, as to how to play it and that, and ELP, through him. The bit about Keith being excited and grateful is oddly missing from this account... Some inevitable contradiction creeps in, as formerly it was progressive rock that was invented by Him, to quote His own press release. Some might also choose to point out the confusion between the terms classic and classical. But this is nitpicking, a mere bagatelle. Here's the legendary tale of the debt owed to our hero by Yes, Jethro Tull, Genesis and a fish...
"YES were named by David O List and given their first chance to shine when David said they could appear as his support group if they changed their name from The Syn to Yes, as that would be more positive sounding to his audience, considering they were called The Nice. This name change happened one night when David met Jon, Chris and Pete at The Speakeasy Club just after David and The Nice had broken The Who‚s box office record at the Marquee! The Nice went on to break the record a second time!! The Syn could never have made it had David O List not stepped in to the Speakeasy Club that night. Using The Nice audience Yes were able to attract a record company and record buying public. Jethro Tull also owe their notoriety to David O List, as it was David who let them on as his support group. Nobody would take them seriously. Therefore David O List changed the course of history not only in art, sound and vision but also for other artists‚ futures, including Genesis, Phil Collins, Marilyn and Fish".
Got that? Nobody would take Jethro Tull seriously! Mr O'List let them on, surely you can see that? Why was the audience of Yes called the Nice? Wasn't that a group or something? He also changed the face of fish (not sure whether it was a particular species or just all fish), and Marilyn. (Huh? Oh, come on, surely you can see the connection between Marilyn and a fish...! No, I mean Genesis and Marilyn!! But what have futures got to do with this? Perhaps he refers to fishfood futures. Or perhaps not, that's also possible. No, wait, hang on a minute!!! I'm going to have a lie down, I'll be as right as rain in a moment).
OK, that's better. Now, what was that about being lured into not being credited for composing the music that he composed music? Confused? You will be...
"Read an interview with Davy about how he was lured into joining Roxy Music to secure their Recording Agreement and how they never credited him for the music he composed music for the group. They were worried Davy was to well-known and he would become more famous than Bryan Ferry or Eno so he had to go! The astounding facts - I bet you did not know about".
Certainly the least that we can say is that we did not know about. What we do now know is that Davy O'List is to well-known as Bryan Ferry is to Eno. Or something like that. My head hurts. Let's see who the webmaster and creator of this alternative view of the world from over there is..... Ah hah, it is someone with the initials D and O'L. Oh, surely not - can it possibly be...? I did not know about.
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