*Bump again - I seem to be the only person posting on this thread at the moment!*

I was just thinking again about the influence of classical in rock music. There's a german acid/psych rock band from the 70's called Amon Duul II who have a great violin player called Chris Karrer - he's especially good on the song Soap Shop Rock.

Frank Zappa did a great big band version of the Royal March from Stravinsky's "L'Histoire Du Soldat", as well as the theme from Bartok's Piano Concerto No. 3. He also recorded an entire album with the London Symphony Orchestra, and several other orchestral albums of his own work. On the sleeve notes to his debut album "Freak Out"in 1966, he listed among his many influences Maurice Ravel, Arnold Schoenberg, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez (who conducted one of his orchestral albums), Anton Webern, and Edgar Varese.

Steve Hackett from Genesis has apparently just released a classical guitar album.