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| From | "Stephen Thorn" <youngthorn@earthlink.net> |
| Subject | Re: Borack Thought |
| Date | Sun, 29 Aug 2004 10:54:20 -0700 |
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Anna's right...the excellent feedback to Boracks's post (thanks, John) will
motivate people to seek out the Edwards CD and give it an honest spin.
Although they may be strange bedfellows, I see no difference between the
plight of the powerpop artist and the
difficulties of the starving jazz musician in 2004. Both artist camps have
a passionate fan base but are
generally ignored by the majority of the album-buying public.
Eugene is assigned to an independent label, a far better situation than
signing a deal with Warners, Capitol, etc.
under the speculation that the CD MAY come out in the next 15 months.
Mr. Edwards will probably never appear on the MTV video Awards as their
appears to be built-in conspiracy
toward any artist melodically gifted.
Good luck to Eugene Edwards and to all poppers still looking for those great
hooks!
"Hey, bad publicity is better than no publicity at all"--Francis Albert
Sinatra
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Carpenter" <Stagefright@msn.com.au>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 5:25 PM
Subject: Re: Borack Thought
> As Anna wrote, the important thing to remember about an artist like Eugene
> is that this IS his debut album. Hopefully the beginning of the unfolding
of
> a major talent. I think every new artist has the right to be a little
> derivative on their debut releases. (I have this theory that all great
> artists don't really develop their own voice until album 3 or 4, but
that's
> another email.) The difficult thing about today's music business is that a
> lot of great talents don't get the opportunities to develop through their
> debut, especially if the debut or follow up doesn't sell.
>
> Without sounding like a broken record, the greatest thing about small
labels
> like Tallboy, Not Lame, Jam, Laughing outlaw, is that the artists have
small
> labels who share their vision.. who 'get' what they're doing. It provides
> artists a home to grown in and become hopefully the great unique artists
> they promise to be. My favourite Bruce Brodeen quote was when i handed in
my
> rather derivative, but i'd like to think still pretty good 'Baby' album,
was
> "i can't wait til your 3rd album, because, you barely even know what
you're
> capable of yet". And i think that's about right..
>
> In the meantime, i guess we all have our thresholds of 'acceptable
> derivation'. To me, Eugene is coming along fine from what i hear on the
> record, and derivative or not, it's still a good one to listen to. I can
> imagine that 'No Matter What' was considered derivative of the Fab Four
when
> it came out. But there's no denying that it's one of the greatest powerpop
> singles of all time, right up there with the Paperback Writers and I Feel
> Fines. I guess my point is that as i get older, i'm settling into a mode
of
> 'styles i prefer to listen to'. In my world, an EC sounding debut is
always
> going to find it's way into my CD player faster and more often than a lot
of
> other crap that's out there (or is 'cooler')..
>
> MC
>
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