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| From | "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Changing it when they already had it right. Selling out or searching for an |
| Date | Fri, 04 May 2007 11:34:22 -0400 |
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Leo's last studio album "Voice In My Head" features a return to splendour
with a number of co-writes with Albert Hammond.
My label made an exclusive North American deal for the record. It's
available from my Bullseye site if you're interested.
Jaimie Vernon,
President, Bullseye Records
http://www.bullseyecanada.com
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Author, Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia
http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Pop_Encyclopedia/
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>From: "floatingunder" <underthefloat@msn.com>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: audities@smoe.org
>Subject: Re: Changing it when they already had it right. Selling out or
>searching for an audience?
>Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 15:07:20 -0000
>
> > --- In audities@yahoogroups.com, William Rabeneck <largro13@> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Does anyone else have any bands that took a disappointing
>turn
> > for them? And when bands do this: do you think they are selling
>out
> > to find a larger audience? Or do you think they are just running
>out
> > of creative steam?
>
>
>I'm nothing if not redundant (see next paragraph)
>
>The biggest for me was Leo Sayer. I LOVED first two albums, third one
>also very good. Then he went for the large audience with Richard
>Perry producing Endless Flight and they found commercial success in a
>big way. Artistic success......not so much.
>
>I'll add. I actually like 2/3 of Dan Fogelberg's first album (To the
>Morning, Live in the Country, Be on Your way, Looking for a Lady...to
>name a few) and his follow up had some nice songs on it too. Soon
>after he also took a dive into a vat of swill for commercial success
>and found it.
>
>My hunch is the impetus for both was finding a larger audience and
>both succeeded and yet artistically failed with gusto. I wonder if
>sometimes the process of finding the fame extinguishes the creative
>hunger.
>
>
>Elton John may be more of the case of someone losing it rather then
>selling out. He had big hits that were also in his creative peak.
>Now, I've not heard his last few albums but some are calling them a
>come back…??
>
>Then there is the Bee Gees. I'm not sure what to say. I LOVE their
>early stuff. Then came 70's work which is often more associated with
>them. I don't care for much of that.
>
>Steve D
>
>
>NP: Fickle Pickle (HUGE thanks to Michael B. and Mark F. for the tip
>on this one from an earlier thread). Moments channel a Badfinger
>kind of vibe; others seem more like 10cc on Quaaludes (well very
>British silly anyway). They get silly in a few moments but really
>some fine singing and song craft. Finally, a strange moment when
>someone covers a well known song "Maybe I'm Amazed" and equals to
>betters the original version by the man some call Jehovah.
>Anyway, I'm hard pressed to find a song that's grabbed me the
>way "Only for the Summer" has in a quite a while.
>
>
>
>
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