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| From | "Barry R. Schlom" <barrys@lernerweisslaw.com> |
| Subject | Re: What are some of your Buried Treasures? |
| Date | Wed, 27 Aug 2003 07:11:19 -0700 |
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So funny you mention that --- I was listening to Chicago Transit Authority
this morning on the way into work, and was going to put that up as a buried
treasure.
--- Barry Schlom
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jaimie Vernon [mailto:bullseyecanada@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 6:15 PM
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Re: What are some of your Buried Treasures?
>
>
> 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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