As a Supertramp fan, I loved this interview with John Helliwell, an excellent saxophonist and a gentleman! But it is disappointing that the breakup of the band, due by Roger's departure, has caused a wound that has never healed, leading ardent Roger fans to attack Rick and Rick refuting with a certain contempt what Supertramp represents. Sad, because both are great talents that together with the other members formed a iconic group! This scuffle doesn't surprise me, as Roger and Rick were never really friends. I've never seen an interview of them together and even in the photos it seems they just tolerate each other! It's clear that the only reason that brought Rick and Roger together was just make a good job. They did it! That's what matters.
Wonderful interview! contratulations! Great questions from you (and Andrea!) and answers from John (always, the most easy-going guy of the band). A reunion of the original line-up would be an impossible dream come true I'm afraid... But I coudn't help of imagining new classic ST songs in a new released album after this year's ABBA return.... why in the hell, if the Swedish band could do it (being actually divorced couples!), our beloved classic ST guys cannot do it?? A pity... the could make the world a better place... can you imagine? And finally... I disagree with John on not being part of Roger's solo albums to prevent him to sound "more like Supertramp"... that shouldn't have been John's decision... although he was free to do what he did, obviously... a pity... As you said, songs such as In Jeopardy with a John' sax solo in it would've sounded much as a ST song!! Cheers from Spain Jorge Cassinello
As a Supertramp fan since "Crime..." I'm always a little annoyed that they faded out John's solos so often. "my Kind of Lady" being the "worst" I always try to climb in to the speakers to hear a longer solo at that song particularly...
After all these years of fighting, I mean these guys should look in the mirror and grow up. They must acknowledge that there's something greater than their egos. It would be somehow epic if they were all on stage together again. I mean, all my life I did without, so what the heck. It's not a big deal, it's really just a nice to have, so c'mon, don't make such a big fuss about it, and do us the pleasure. Have a laugh together, for the sake of a couple of good years in a great band, before you die.
I know, especially while they're all still alive. It's actually quite rare to have a band of Supertramp's size from over 50 years ago, and have all the members still alive today
Supertramp always seemed to get the best producers and engineers. They really were genius stacked on genius. The one factor that stood out above all that genius might surprise many. The anomaly wasn't Roger, but Rick.
Roger W. and David G. always itemized their work pinpointing expressly who played what. Supertramp didn't go that far. It was always the Supertramp end product that took precedence.
@@WilliamJones-sf5pt and both never really picked up the same way, after the other party left. They needed all components, the edgy side, and the melodic side. Even though Mr. Gilmore had some impressive sales, but that's not what I mean. I meant artistically.
@@krollpeter Supertramp was always a Rick Davies thing. He had two groups going at the same time in fact. The other was called Ricky's Rockets which he often played at after a Supertramp concert collecting a band together on the spot using other band members and their instruments at night clubs. Rick was the one that was always like a fish out of water when he wasn't playing songs. People confuse Rick with being a simpleton blues artist. In actuality, he was a master percussionist that moved over to play the piano. Rick also let it slip out that, when a kid looking for a band to play in, he could only find a group that needed someone that could play the organ which he didn't know how to play. So, he would fake it.
@@krollpeter I will agree with you that they lost the dueling out aspect created by being competing song writers. For example, it always amazed me how Roger's song "Hide in your Shell" managed to work at the spot of third song. Rick always like to progress the songs by the addition of instruments and backing vocals from first to second verse/chorus. The third concluding chorus works because it is percussion driven. After all that, the audience could have been left in a state of anticlimactic exhaustion. Rick's absurd song "Asylum" managed to top that though. Back in the day, record albums ended on the A side. The flip B side of that album then started off with Dreamer afterwhich it would conclude with four endings. Rudy had two endings a dramatic one of a movie about Rudy inside and a sad epilogue about Rudy coming out from watching himself as a movie. The third song "Hide in your Shell" begs the listener to not let the curtain fall on the show. The forth song by Rick is the mother of all doomsday songs.
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Grazie per questa intervista ..che persona fantastica..sarebbe troppo bello riunire i supertramp🙏..io li ho visti nel 97 a milano ma c era solo rick😢
Sarebbe fantastico davvero…
Bellissima intervista
John is a great man!!Thanks for all your work!!
Good interview!
Yes, please a online supertramp reuinion please, loved this interview.
He did play on Rogers Rites Of Passage album.
Complimenti x il documento !!aggiungo che la batteria e veramente suonata bene uso dei piatti unico !!
Grazie !
As a Supertramp fan, I loved this interview with John Helliwell, an excellent saxophonist and a gentleman!
But it is disappointing that the breakup of the band, due by Roger's departure, has caused a wound that has never healed, leading ardent Roger fans to attack Rick and Rick refuting with a certain contempt what Supertramp represents.
Sad, because both are great talents that together with the other members formed a iconic group!
This scuffle doesn't surprise me, as Roger and Rick were never really friends. I've never seen an interview of them together and even in the photos it seems they just tolerate each other!
It's clear that the only reason that brought Rick and Roger together was just make a good job. They did it! That's what matters.
Seria o Show do Século... Lendas vivas....
Wonderful interview! contratulations! Great questions from you (and Andrea!) and answers from John (always, the most easy-going guy of the band). A reunion of the original line-up would be an impossible dream come true I'm afraid... But I coudn't help of imagining new classic ST songs in a new released album after this year's ABBA return.... why in the hell, if the Swedish band could do it (being actually divorced couples!), our beloved classic ST guys cannot do it?? A pity... the could make the world a better place... can you imagine?
And finally... I disagree with John on not being part of Roger's solo albums to prevent him to sound "more like Supertramp"... that shouldn't have been John's decision... although he was free to do what he did, obviously... a pity... As you said, songs such as In Jeopardy with a John' sax solo in it would've sounded much as a ST song!!
Cheers from Spain
Jorge Cassinello
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
As a Supertramp fan since "Crime..." I'm always a little annoyed that they faded out John's solos so often. "my Kind of Lady" being the "worst"
I always try to climb in to the speakers to hear a longer solo at that song particularly...
After all these years of fighting, I mean these guys should look in the mirror and grow up. They must acknowledge that there's something greater than their egos. It would be somehow epic if they were all on stage together again. I mean, all my life I did without, so what the heck. It's not a big deal, it's really just a nice to have, so c'mon, don't make such a big fuss about it, and do us the pleasure. Have a laugh together, for the sake of a couple of good years in a great band, before you die.
I know, especially while they're all still alive. It's actually quite rare to have a band of Supertramp's size from over 50 years ago, and have all the members still alive today
Supertramp always seemed to get the best producers and engineers. They really were genius stacked on genius. The one factor that stood out above all that genius might surprise many. The anomaly wasn't Roger, but Rick.
David Gilmour and Roger Waters were able to play music together, even they are not friends, so Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson can do it !
Roger W. and David G. always itemized their work pinpointing expressly who played what. Supertramp didn't go that far. It was always the Supertramp end product that took precedence.
@@WilliamJones-sf5pt and both never really picked up the same way, after the other party left. They needed all components, the edgy side, and the melodic side.
Even though Mr. Gilmore had some impressive sales, but that's not what I mean. I meant artistically.
@@krollpeter Supertramp was always a Rick Davies thing. He had two groups going at the same time in fact. The other was called Ricky's Rockets which he often played at after a Supertramp concert collecting a band together on the spot using other band members and their instruments at night clubs. Rick was the one that was always like a fish out of water when he wasn't playing songs.
People confuse Rick with being a simpleton blues artist. In actuality, he was a master percussionist that moved over to play the piano.
Rick also let it slip out that, when a kid looking for a band to play in, he could only find a group that needed someone that could play the organ which he didn't know how to play. So, he would fake it.
@@krollpeter I will agree with you that they lost the dueling out aspect created by being competing song writers. For example, it always amazed me how Roger's song "Hide in your Shell" managed to work at the spot of third song. Rick always like to progress the songs by the addition of instruments and backing vocals from first to second verse/chorus. The third concluding chorus works because it is percussion driven. After all that, the audience could have been left in a state of anticlimactic exhaustion. Rick's absurd song "Asylum" managed to top that though. Back in the day, record albums ended on the A side. The flip B side of that album then started off with Dreamer afterwhich it would conclude with four endings. Rudy had two endings a dramatic one of a movie about Rudy inside and a sad epilogue about Rudy coming out from watching himself as a movie. The third song "Hide in your Shell" begs the listener to not let the curtain fall on the show. The forth song by Rick is the mother of all doomsday songs.