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| From | Marty Rudnick <mrudnick@marturo.com> |
| Subject | Re: Laura Nyro |
| Date | Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:15:52 -0700 (PDT) |
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--- <audities@smoe.org> wrote:
>
> >Count me in as a HUGE Laura Nyro fan. Just, wow. What
> >blows my mind about her music is her sense of rhythm
> >-- unbelievably strange-yet-natural sounding time
> >signatures. And what a voice! She is missed...
>
> am I the only one who thinks Tori Amos stole her sound directly
> from Nyro??
Marty sez:
Even the Beatles referred to themselves as "plagiarists extraordinaire"
But speaking of her influence, check out the song "Laura" from Todd Rundgren's debut LP 'Runt'. I think there's a lot of Laura Nyro in a few early Todd songs. And that's ok by me!
Marty
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