Re-formed creative collaborations?

Subject: Re-formed creative collaborations?
From: GUEST,The Shambles
Date: 09 Jul 05 - 02:56 AM

There is often a wish expressed for 'so-and-so' to get back together (after sometimes bitter bust-ups) and create more of the material that made them popular. Is it possible for a partnership not just to re-form and play the old hits - but to recapture the old creativity and produce new work of the same or better standard as the old?

Or is it a case that great creative collaborations can only spark the once?

Are there any examples of past differences being put behind and this creative spark being able to happen more than once?

Subject: RE: Re-formed creative collaborations?
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 09 Jul 05 - 03:02 AM

My memory, I think.

Subject: RE: Re-formed creative collaborations?
From: mindblaster
Date: 09 Jul 05 - 03:48 AM

Who were "so and so", a rock band?

Subject: RE: Re-formed creative collaborations?
From: Amos
Date: 09 Jul 05 - 11:29 AM

Hey, good name for a band!

A

Subject: RE: Re-formed creative collaborations?
From: The Shambles
Date: 10 Jul 05 - 09:33 AM

Ask a perfectly sensible question.......................

Subject: RE: Re-formed creative collaborations?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 10 Jul 05 - 09:44 AM

Well Pigsty Hil reformed after a quite long break and seemed not to have lost any of THEIR spark !! Sadly Barry Bach died just over a year after they got back together .

Subject: RE: Re-formed creative collaborations?
From: mack/misophist
Date: 10 Jul 05 - 10:50 PM

Every case should be different, I imagine.

Subject: RE: Re-formed creative collaborations?
From: michaelr
Date: 10 Jul 05 - 11:24 PM

The recent Planxty reunion certainly highlighted the growth that each individual musician had undergone; and while they performed no new material, there was a distinct subtlety and ease with which they played their music that far surpassed the original recordings.

Fans are hoping for new stuff from Planxty, but who knows... It was great to see them back together.

Cheers,
Michael

Subject: RE: Re-formed creative collaborations?
From: The Shambles
Date: 11 Jul 05 - 02:11 AM

Perhaps it would be better for us (as fans) to accept that creative colaboration were one-off events that cannot really be re-captured and move on with the new creations of the individuals involved - rather than always creating pressure by comparing these with the earlier material?

I have found that the creative spark is encouraged by many things (including working with other musicians) but the creative period caused by this spark is never a constant thing and nor are the results.

The recent Planxty reunion certainly highlighted the growth that each individual musician had undergone; and while they performed no new material, there was a distinct subtlety and ease with which they played their music that far surpassed the original recordings.

I would agree with the growth of each musician's confidence and skill - since the collaboration came to and end. But is perhaps a sad fact for us to accept - that the creative collaboration that we treasure are just steps along the way of these musician's lives and that trying to recapture the time, place and elements - is perhaps unrealistic and a backward step?

Subject: RE: Re-formed creative collaborations?
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 11 Jul 05 - 02:34 AM

The band Mason Proffit is back together and touring. They're still as sharp as ever.

Stephen Lee

Subject: RE: Re-formed creative collaborations?
From: michaelr
Date: 13 Jul 05 - 07:53 PM

...trying to recapture the time, place and elements - is perhaps unrealistic and a backward step?

Bingo, Shambles. You answered your own question there. Point in case: the recent Pink Floyd reunion at the Live8 concert in London. Ho-hum, even though they sounded great. Fact is, the magic happened 30 years ago and cannot be re-created.

Stephen Lee -- Mason Proffitt? Really?? That is amazing news. Tell me more!

Cheers,
Michael