Eggman
Goran Obradovic
Iain Taylor
Favourite track = How Does It Feel To Feel?
Steve McGhee
Favourite track - "Making Time"
Favourite album - "Red with purple flashes"
Best thing - nice and LOUD
Worst thing - the cover versions they did
Any other comment - too much run-of-the-mill stuff in between the gems.Michel Gignac
1--Favourite
track - Biff Bang Pow
2--Favourite album - We Are The Paintermen
Gert Stuut
Favourite Track: How Does It Feel To Feel
Glyn Savage
Favourite track - Biff Bang Pow / Nightmares
Best thing about - The sound
Worst thing about - No UK lp at the time
Any other comment - Great guitar soundSir Gregory Weatherby
1--Favourite track
"Painter Man" is my fave track because, yet again, it knocked me out
when it came out. It sounded so radical, so 'au courant', all this talk
of art and painting and of course, there was that guitar, that glorious
screeching booming guitar that Eddie Phillips made his trademark
sound.....and while this shouldn't really count, there was that picture
sleeve......that hair, I just wanted to be and look like
Eddie......unfortunately, I was in the U.S Army, stationed in Germany, at the
time and that look was beyond my purview.......plus .......well,
not sure I could have pulled it off anyway ......."Painter Man" stands
out as a timeless song, I just watched the video of them doing PM on
"Beat Club", I still get the shivers
2--Favourite album
Since they only had the two albums at the time, both German.....it's not a hard
choice..... I will go with "We Are Paintermen".....but I have to
give honourable mention to "66-67" that came out in 1973 on Charisma.
It was the first time I heard "Can I Join Your Band", another Creation
classic......at that time, I was working for a record retailer in San Francisco,
and one of my jobs was to run the new 'import' albums through
a shrink wrap machine before they were sent to the stores.....I was pulling
records out of a bin to feed through the machine when I saw a
naked bum.......and the words The Creation on the cover.....I was flabbergasted,
this was a time when there was no nostalgia for what was
then the fairly recent past, and very rarely did you see albums from older
relatively unknown bands, so this blew me away, it helped spark
some interest in them at the time
3--Best thing about...
What's not to like? Their music was, with a few exceptions, absolutely
wonderful; they had a look that I envied, the epitome of cool.....and
then there was that guitar.....thank you Eddie!
4--Worst thing about...
"Uncle Bert", even "Cool Jerk, which is a throwaway, is better
than this
5--Any other comment.
If you haven't seen their Beat Beat Beat appearances or their lone appearance on
Beat Club, do it now....this is a band that truly deserves
all the retro hype.......and I will finish by saying that it was an absolute
thrill for me to attend Cavestomp 2001 in New York and see
Eddie and Kim play as The Creation, it was a powerful performance...I had a
chance to talk to Eddie and he was as down to earth as he could be, just a
wonderful experience all the way around