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GLENN PHILLIPS - HAMPTON GREASE
BAND video is NME's featured video: http://www.nme.com/video/id/zzlpSzXDk-A/search
NME is England's leading music magazine, and the clip is featured with other
acts like The Beatles, Bruce Springsteen, and Jimi Hendrix.
Also, the Jan. 2009 OXFORD AMERICAN MAGAZINE had this
to say: "The Grease Band's guitar player, Glenn Phillips, was better and
more interesting as a guitarist than Frank Zappa . . ."
There is a HAMPTON GREASE BAND article in the latest
issue of the Oxford American, as well as a cut from their
MUSIC TO EAT album on the double-CD included in that issue. The Oxford
American is a highly-regarded, national literary magazine, and this is their 10th anniversary music. Below is an
excerpt from the article by Allen Lowe.
"The
Grease Band's guitar player, Glenn Phillips, was better and more interesting as
a guitarist than Frank Zappa because, great as Zappa was, he tended to resort to
musical patterns in his more complex guitar passages. The Grease Band actually
had a real and, unusual for rock & roll at that time, jazz sense of
complicated, improvised melodic line."