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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: The Donnas |
| Date | Thu, 2 Dec 2004 22:40:46 -0500 |
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From: "Mark Eichelberger" <markeichelberger@comcast.net>
> Hey, I think The Donnas are great. If you really want to hear the
> progression this band has made, listen to 1998's "American Teenage
> Rock'n'Roll Machine" and then listen to 2002's Spend The Night or
> this
> year's Gold Medal. What amazes me is how much better a drummer
> Torry
> Castellano is now. Hey, I know they were merely kids and were
> self-taught...but man, did it ever show. I guess the constant
> touring
> really tightened up this band.
I always kinda liked the Donnas through TURN 21, but I think the last
couple of albums are the equivalent of the Ramones' '80s albums:
they're more polished, yeah, and the musicianship is tighter, true,
but the songs are completely dull. There must have been a happy
medium between inspired amateurishness and dull professionalism...
S
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