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| From | "fjeder" <fjeder@shiner22.net> |
| Subject | Re: R snob dictionary |
| Date | Wed, 29 Jun 2005 00:42:01 +0200 |
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I totally agree
Fjeder
www.shiner22.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Seaman" <seamand@upmc.edu>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 6:45 PM
Subject: FW: R snob dictionary
> 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
> Message-ID:
> <2037058.1118338754299.JavaMail.root@wamui-milano.atl.sa.earthlink.net>
>
> 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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