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| From | Sam Smith <samsmith@colorado.edu> |
| Subject | the Bolton problem |
| Date | Tue, 30 Mar 2004 16:21:25 -0700 |
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There was a moment in time when I had heard Michael Bolton sing
precisely one thing - "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay." I saw him on the
Tonight Show, I think, and he whipped out an acoustic and did it just
sitting there at the desk. Jesus, it knocked my socks off. Despite the
pathetic self-parody that we now know he is, the man has (or had,
anyway) just an amazing voice, and at that point that's all I had to go
on. So I thought, hey, this guy has something special.
I was wrong, of course, a fact that became painfully clear when I saw
him on MTV doing his second hit. And it's sad, because you hate to see
somebody waste a gift like voice. If he'd had some guidance or
something, you wonder if he might have become something respectable.
--
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...it's a lonesome thing to be passing small towns with the
lights shining sideways when the night is down, or going in
strange places with a dog nosing before you and a dog nosing
behind, or drawn to the cities where you'd hear a voice
kissing and talking deep love in every shadow of the ditch,
and you passing on with an empty, hungry stomach failing
from your heart.
- John Millington Synge
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