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| From | "brynneandscott" <brynneandscott@cox.net> |
| Subject | Re: props for Hootie |
| Date | Tue, 25 Feb 2003 10:55:32 -0500 |
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I was never a fan, but they did one thing I liked. In their early days they
opened for the Reivers and they covered two of their songs on b-sides.
Apparently John Croslin (Reivers songwriter) made more from those covers
than he did on all of the Reivers albums.
Scott S
> I hate Hootie & the Blowfish. That said, my understanding is those guys
> worked their asses off on the road and were ignored by the majors for
years
> until they sold so much merchandise they had to pay attention. It may be
> crap, but it's crap that people actually chose as opposed to the man, so I
> say go Hootie.
>
> << I always thought the Hootie boys got a bad rap too.
> I've always liked the first album, and I think they were (wittingly or
> unwittingly) dumped into the jock-rock/yuppie music with that damned Dan
> Marino video. That, I think, was when the backlash really started.
> That said, a couple years ago Mark Bryan, the band's lead guitar player,
put
> out a fine album of power-pop produced by Don Dixon that counted Peter
> Holsapple among the backing musicians.
> And, of course, Peter was Hootie's touring utility player for its first
two
> tours. I don't think he would have signed on if he hadn't considered them
> worthwhile.
>
> John. >>
>
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