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MacGregor - 2008-09-15 20:33:16
I like to sing when I walk down the street. Other people aren't so crazy about that. Maybe I need back-up singers.. like the Sons of the Pioneers... yeah. I'd like that.
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amatt - 2008-09-15 21:27:18
One of my favorite in store performances was Peter Frampton at Tower Records. Totally rocked. And yeah, I sing walking down the street constantly. Made myself cry a few times, (I know...).
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Paula - 2008-09-15 21:35:10
When was Frampton, Amatt? I have a fax from Peter Frampton amongst my treasured possessions.
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MacGregor - 2008-09-15 23:02:06
Paula, was he saying "I want you to want me"
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Paula - 2008-09-16 01:14:08
No, that would be Robin Zander, who has not yet faxed me, ever.
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Bina - 2008-09-16 02:41:29
I sing in the gym where the machines are so loud that nobody can hear me anyway!
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2fs - 2008-09-16 05:07:37
When I was a kid, I used to sing while mowing the lawn. To my mind, my vocalizations were covered up by the noise of the mower. Of course, that was true only from my perspective...or so my mom tells me. About Sam Phillips: I was just listening to her most recent release the other day, and this whole "country/folk" thing is kinda goofy. I mean, just because someone sometimes plays an acoustic guitar does not make them "folk" or "country" ("alt" or not). I don't really hear much country in Phillips' music - I can hear some folk, yes - but what I mostly hear is that Phillips' career is marked by a boundless curiosity over (among other things) how a set of melody and chords might be arranged for different instruments and sounds. There's the bright, Beatle-y palette of her first couple of post-Leslie releases, the much-derided electro-weird of Omnipop (maybe my favorite), the more subdued acoustic but instrumentally broad-ranging arrangements of Fan Dance or A Boot and a Shoe, etc. etc. Hell, there's one track on the new one (I'm bad with titles and sleepy to look it up) that sounds like My Bloody Valentine in the background. So enough already: acoustic guitar != folk, at least not automatically, 'kay?
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Paula - 2008-09-16 08:22:09
Word. I think if one absolutely feels the need to throw a label on her for marketing purposes, "Singer-songwriter" kind of works, implying that the song is the thing.
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MacGregor - 2008-09-16 12:33:32
ya know... call it age. Peter wanted you to show him the way, right? Robin Zander is that other Eloi-like fellow with the the seemingly weird parents, if memory serves.
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amatt - 2008-09-16 16:02:23
Frampton was fall of 1995. I remember arguing with someone on the line because he thought Ratdog performing on Jerry Garcia's death day was in poor taste. I disagreed.
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amatt - 2008-09-16 16:03:29
Ha! The words I had to put in for the above post was, "maj stableboy"
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