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| From | Dave Seaman <seamand@upmc.edu> |
| Subject | FW: R snob dictionary |
| Date | Tue, 28 Jun 2005 12:45:23 -0400 |
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I'm looking through the Rock Snob website, and, upon perusing the Burt
Bacharach entry, thinking -- is there any songwriter out there whose body of
material is BOTH as metrically and melodically unorthodox AND as supremely
catchy as Burt's? Of course there are writers that surpass BB in one or two
of these categories, but all three? I can't think of one. Comments,
anyone?
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:39:13 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
From: synchro1 <synchro1@ix.netcom.com>
To: audities@smoe.org
Subject: The Rock Snob Dictionary
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hours of fun:
http://snobsite.com/
sample entry:
Parsons, Gram. Southern, Harvard-educated, trustafarian pretty-boy who
invented country rock by bringing his high-lonesome tastes to bear on his
one album as a Byrd (1968â•˙s Sweetheart of the Rodeo, considered the first
country-rock LP). Parsons and fellow Byrd Chris Hillman went on to form the
Flying Burrito Brothers. A hard-livinâ•˙ soul who favored tightfitting NUDIE
suits custom-decorated with pictures of naked girls and marijuana leaves, he
greatly impressed Mick Jagger and Keith Richards (inspiring them to write
╲Wild Horses╡), and recorded two Rock Snob╄ratified solo albums, GP
and Grievous Angel, before dying of a morphine-and-alcohol overdose in a
motel in Joshua Tree, California, in 1973 at the age of 26.
See also Fripp, Robert
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