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| From | "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: What are some of your Buried Treasures? |
| Date | Tue, 26 Aug 2003 21:14:35 -0400 |
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AT Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 17:09:09 Mike Vancha wrote:
>Joe, have you checked out the other productions of Foster at about the same
>time? The Tubes and >couple of Chicago albums have Foster's songs and
>arrangments.
Chicago hit a career low when Foster came in, fired the band's longstanding
horn section, and brought in LA session players to back Peter Cetera (can't
remember which Chicago album is was....IX, X, XI, EIEIO?). That same year,
1985, saw him destroy what was left of The Payola$ street cred by having
members Bob Rock and Paul Hyde co-wrote such banal ditties like "Stuck In
The Rain Again" and "It Must Be Love" with him. It didn't help that A & M
Records insisted they change their name (after a 7 year existance) to PAUL
HYDE & The Payola$ to downplay that forgettable black cloud in American
radio history.
Foster's insistence in grafting his milktoast piano concerto style onto
every record he produces can be summed up in a quote from his old rockabilly
band leader Ronnie Hawkins: "David Foster is the greatest piano player since
Beethoven. But he can't play "Roll Over Beethoven" worth a shit. That's why
I fired him."
Foster was the piano player who replaced Frank "Music Box Dancer" Mills in
Skylark...who gave us that early '70s moonglow ditty "Wildfire". So there's
been no hope for the careers of anyone associated with him since....
Jaimie Vernon,
President,
Bullseye Records of Canada, Inc.
http://www.bullseyecanada.com
"Not Suing Our Customers Since 1985!"
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