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| From | "Sager, Greg" <greg.sager@bankofamerica.com> |
| Subject | Re: Ian Hunter |
| Date | Fri, 04 May 2007 01:34:05 -0500 |
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>>Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 04:48:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael vg <govango@yahoo.com>
To: Holmes Online <bholmes_fm@msn.com>, audities@smoe.org
Subject: Re: Ian Hunter
Message-ID: <802340.64564.qm@web39715.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
--- Holmes Online <bholmes_fm@msn.com> wrote:
> Nor Graham Parker, who continues to be on a roll with DON'T TELL
COLUMBUS.
> Though I think I like SHRUNKEN HEADS better...so far.
Yeah I thought of Parker also. I have to agree also that Shrunken Heads
has seemed to stick with me more than GPs new one. Amazing that this is
the same guy I used to think was so cool back in the 70's fronting one
of my favorite bands, and years later he is still thrilling me with his
music.
<<
That's the reason why I left Parker off of the list of aging rockers in
musical decline. I have just about every studio album Geep's ever
released, and while some of his albums are better than others he, too,
has never really hit a creative slump in terms of his output.
>>Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 04:42:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael vg <govango@yahoo.com>
To: audities@smoe.org
Subject: Re: Ian Hunter
Message-ID: <423913.23623.qm@web39702.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
--- "Sager, Greg" <greg.sager@bankofamerica.com> wrote:
> Well, while that may be true of most rockers on the Ben Gay
> side of fifty (McCartney, Costello, the Stones, Townshend, Brian
Wilson,
> etc.), it's certainly not true of Ian Hunter.
I don't know that I would put EC in this same group. While he
has released some less than stellar work in years past, they
could not be categorized as Rock. When EC rocks out ala Delivery
Man, When I was Cruel, while not MY AIM IS TRUE these CDs stand up
along side his body of work. Removing his excursions into chamber
music, jazz, classical etc. he has yet to release anything on the
level of Gettin' In Over my Head or Drivin' Rain.
<<
Sorry, but while I don't think Costello has fallen nearly as far as,
say, McCartney or the Stones, his rockers just don't stand up nearly as
well to the early part of his catalog in comparison to his fellow elder
statesmen Ian Hunter and Graham Parker. Ol' Dec McM really seems to be
forcing it when he straps on the guitar and plugs in nowadays. It's not
cringe-inducing, but it's not the work of a rocker who is still at the
top of his game.
Greg Sager
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