Ken,
Sorry to have offended you with my "teenybopper"
crack. I was thinking of "Love Me Do" and songs of
that ilk.
Candice
--- Kenneth Wolman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Jon Corelis wrote:
> > I suppose I should chime in here with my admission
> of being a Deadhead,
> > though not enough of a one to tell you exactly how
> many concerts I went to.
> > Or I should say used to be a Deadhead -- now they
> belong to the ages. It's
> > no snobbery, just fact, to say that if you weren't
> at the concerts, you
> > never heard the Dead.
> >
>
> Here goes the thread again, flying outward....
>
> I never heard The Dead, so of course was not a
> Deadhead, never saw the
> purpose of any groupthink or travel, however
> informal. My loss, I
> gather. And yet I took it personally when I learned
> in 1995 that Garcia
> had died. I knew him best as a genius necktie
> designer. He was also a
> sign to me that I was mortal. I learned that when I
> was 51.
> > I must also demur from the dismissive
> characterization of the earlier
> > Beatles songs as teenybopper music. Their early
> soul covers -- Mr Postman,
> > You Really Got A Hold On Me, and Long Tall Sally
> (for which Little Richard
> > himself tutored McCartney on his falsetto) -- are
> in my opinion among the
> > enduring glories of rock music.
> >
>
> My issue with the Beatles arose precisely because
> they decided late in
> the Sixties to Go Eastern, headed into some sort of
> Buddhist/Zen/Hindu
> spirituality thing, and wore it badly. The stories
> of rampant heroin
> abuse during that period are by now worn out, and
> I'm sure Albert
> Goldman wasn't the first to mention that mess. But
> people are human and
> therefore inconsistent, so to hell with it.
> Musically: I can't comment
> because I don't play the sitar, but people who heard
> both Ravi Shankar
> and George Harrison said that the latter had no more
> business recording
> with the sitar than I would have playing a Guarneri
> violin.
> Translation: if you're famous you can afford to
> noodle in public but
> that doesn't mean you're doing you or your audience
> a favor.
>
> But yes...the early early Beatles covers made for
> fabulous dance music
> and were just plain bounce-off-the-ceilings.
> Somehow they *understood*
> American rock 'n' roll.
> > Other nostalgia names: Steve Miller Band. Tim
> Buckley. Moby Grape. Jim
> > Kweskin Jug Band with Maria Muldaur. Ian and
> Sylvia. The Yardbirds. The
> > Hollies. Doug Sahm. Manfred Mann and His Men.
> Mary Wells. The Miracles.
> > The Temptations. Jeez, this beer is starting to
> taste watery and salty ...
> >
>
> Don't start me. Jethro Tull. Richie Havens (he
> personally taught me to
> play open-tuned guitar, no joke). Love (a band, not
> a feeling). THE
> DOORS. The first time I heard Buckley my hair stood
> on end: fabulous
> high tenor. Tim Hardin: "Song to Lenny" still
> hurts. Kweskin is
> right. Never that big on Ian and Sylvia but now I
> miss them. Marvin
> Gaye: I still think his cover of "I heard it through
> the grapevine" is
> the greatest single ever made. Offtrack a bit:
> Laura Nyro, a voice that
> could knock down plaster walls and a great
> songwriter who I fear may
> have become too slick. The Band: the most perfect
> and "tight" ensemble
> I ever saw/heard. Vanilla Fudge, if only for "You
> Keep Me Hangin' On,"
> a masterpiece of excess. Probably lots more.
>
> ken
>
>
> --
> ------------
> Kenneth Wolman rainermaria.typepad.com
> Never give up. And never, under any circumstances,
> face the facts. -- Ruth Gordon
>
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