Tuesday, June 24, 2008

The Sax-free 60s

I was just musing on the clip below and I came up with a possible game to play while on a long journey or something - name records from the 1960s that have a saxophone in it - orchestral pieces like Henry Mancini don't count. It seems that the whole beat group thing as purveyed by the Beatles and their ilk (the Ilk - that would be a good band name) were sort of skiffle orientated and therefore you were more likely to see a harmonica wheeled out than a sax which seems to have been rendered redundant... like fins on cars, or hair grease. You can imagine poor old sax players sitting out the sixties waiting for a revival. Ilk by the way is often used to mean 'of the same name or family' or 'of the same type': maybe we could start using it instead of genre.