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| From | Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com> |
| Subject | Re: re : In praise of Foghat |
| Date | Thu, 06 Nov 2003 14:23:56 -0500 |
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At 07:43 AM 11/6/2003 -0800, MarkP wrote:
>"third string" ...that kind of stuck in my craw as well ...if Savoy
>Brown was a "third string" blues act then I spose the early Rolling
>Stones, pre 70s Pretty Things, Peter Green era Fleetwood Mac were as
>well, ah well. On reflection, maybe they were.
No, I think every single one of those bands were brilliant at what they
did, especially the Pretties, whose pre-EMOTIONS work I think is criminally
underrated. Savoy Brown weren't, as far as I'm concerned, largely because
I think the singer sounds like he's performing in blackface: he was just
trying way too hard to be Mr. Blues in a way that Peter Green and Phil May
never did. Ergo, "third-string."
S
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