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| From | "Sager, Greg" <greg.sager@bankofamerica.com> |
| Subject | Re: da Bears |
| Date | Thu, 10 Jun 2004 08:55:29 -0500 |
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Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 18:21:05 -0500
From: Brian Curtis <brioohs@sbcglobal.net>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Subject: Re: da Bears
Message-ID: <BCED0590.858%brioohs@sbcglobal.net>
Obviously there would be skeptical folks when they're told by a guy from
Chicago that The Bears are good
... which is why I used the proper spelling of the definite article, instead
of da way dey pronounces it on da Sout' Side.
Da Bearsss haven't done anything musically noteworthy since (very) arguably
"The Super Bowl Shuffle" back in '85.
- but the musical ones are good. I've
always thought that Adrian Belew was more than capable of tossing his share
of hooks, his more avant-garde stylings duly noted. The three Bears studio
albums are well worth listening, as is the more recent live CD - and they
have a live DVD out now too. Visit http://www.thebearsmusic.com for more
details. Those first two Bears albums are currently rare and hard-to-find
on CD (thank goodness I've got 'em), but they are supposedly going to be
reissued in the future. Oh, Greg, that's ROB Fetters, not Mike.
Right. Mike Fetters is the old relief pitcher for the Brewers. Too much
baseball on the brain.
For those looking for similar stuff in Adrian's solo catalog, I highly
recommend "Inner Revolution" which was recently reissued by Wounded Bird,
and "Here" which includes a song cowritten by Ross Rice ("I See You").
I don't know if his first solo album, *Mr. Music Head*, has much in the same
vein ... but that album's leadoff track, "Oh Daddy", got a lot of airplay on
WXRT here in Chicago when it came out back in the late eighties. It's an
utterly charming number, and a very catchy one as well, that featured
Belew's then-ten-year-old daughter Audie as guest vocalist.
Gregory (not A.J.) Sager
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