Exactly
A band doesn't need to be technically brilliant to be a good band. Look at Status Quo - for all the jokes about it all going wrong when they learned a fourth chord, they have been playing for about 40 years with 60 records charting and 22 in the Top Ten. They're like a big tin of Quality Street - when you open it up, you just know that you're going to get a long thin toffee with chocolate on it and you're already thinking how awesome it's going to be. Well, that's Status Quo, and you just know they're going to play "Down Down" and the crowd is going to go ballistic.

Sod all this noodly-noodly fret-wankery. I love listening to Yes, but as a band they're just not that entertaining. Half Man Half Biscuit are entertaining, but they don't shift as many units as Yes, and that's a shame.
(gordonjcp, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 11:25, Reply)