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| From | "Robert Sutliff" <rsutliff@columbus.rr.com> |
| Subject | Re: Hollies (was "60's pop advice) |
| Date | Tue, 22 Jun 2004 13:22:47 -0400 |
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Billy,
I'm a big fan of Sylvester but to me Graham Nash is THE high voice for the
Hollies - what a wonderful set of pipes, even to this day. Another fine
singer in the band is Tony Hicks who hardly ever sings lead.
It's kind of weird knowing that Carl Wayne is now the lead singer. That
would be a thankless task, even for someone as great as Wayne.
Bobby Sutliff
>
> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 07:08:42 -0500
> From: "Billy G. Spradlin" <bgspradlin@cablelynx.com>
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Re: Hollies (was "60's pop advice)
> Message-ID: <auto-000053207392@cablelynx.com>
>
>
> At 10:46 PM 6/21/2004 -0700, you wrote:
> >FINALLY, a little Hollies chatter.
> >
> >I am a lifelong, hardcore fan, and I love the Hollies for all of their
> >great songs and harmonies. Unfortunately, they also released a whole
> >lot of mediocre schlock. Is it possible they couldn't tell the
difference?
>
> Thats one of the reasons why Nash left - he wanted the band to become a
> important album rock band and band members wanted to remain a Top 40 hit
> machine. Albums werent nearly as important as singles to the Hollies, and
> after
> he left they started using established outside writers to keep them on the
> charts. That they didnt fade away is a credit to their talent. The
biggest
> blow was when longtime producer Ron Richards retired in 1975. He produced
> almost all of the Hollies material and was as important to the Hollies as
> George Martin was to the Beatles. After he retired the band started to
lose
> thier direction.
>
> The band was looking for another "Air That I Breathe" smash, so most of
their
> later albums got ballad-heavy. And when punk exploded they were lumped in
with
> the rest of the 60's artifacts in the music press and forgotten. The only
> thing
> that kept the band going was thier reputation as a great live group. They
had
> almost the same problem the Beach Boys had - nobody wants to hear your new
> songs, just give us the old hits again. It's very weird that when thier
studio
> albums were tanking they scored a major hit with the "Hollies Live Hits"
LP in
> the mid 70's.
>
> >Will they ever make it into the RRHOF? I think that after 40 albums and
> >40 years, they are long overdue for induction, but I think that it'll be
> >a cold day in hell. If they ever do get in, they damn well better have
> >Terry Sylvester front and center, because he deserves every bit as much
> >recognition as Graham Nash.
>
> If the Hollies do get in the RRHOF you'll proably wont see Terry, you'll
> proably have the original line up with Graham. I hope Terry does get
> mentioned!
> The Hollies vocals sounded even better with him.
>
> Billy G. Spradlin
> http://listen.to/jangleradio
>
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