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| From | rob@splitsville.com |
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| Date | Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:50:52 -0500 |
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>>What we really should be criticising Amy of is dressing in a retro style -
by the way someone mentioned a place to get cheap Beatle boots, can you
>>e-mail me offlist.
For the benefit of everyone's fashion sense, check out Ben Sherman. Not cheap, but they have some good sales from time to time, particulary online.
Not only Beatle boots, but you can get a whole wardrobe that'll you'll like you've spent your flippin' life hanging with the Small Faces in Itchycoo Park.
>----- ------- Original Message ------- -----
>From: :audities@smoe.org
>To: audities@smoe.org
>Sent: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:03:11
>
>Audities mailing listSo you'll be throwing out your
>Beatles, Byrds and
>Eagles albums along with most of the 60's and 70's
>albums you own because if
>the testers came up to those folks and asked them
>to fill a bottle, we
>wouldn't have much to talk about on this list.
>
>Maybe we could start on jazz.....oh wait Miles,
>Bird, Billie, etc,
>etc.....................
>
>Let's not get too uppity about substance abuse
>problems of musicians. Sure
>it's not a great example for the kiddies and it
>isn't a way of life that
>should be recommended, but I'm wondering how our
>beloved Beatles would have
>fared in the public eye if they were under the
>scrutiny of the paparazzi and
>24hr entertainment news networks and internet
>sites. Artists up until the
>present day were pretty much protected by a nod and
>a wink with journalists.
>All the old school journos who are now editors
>regale their mates down at
>the pub with unpublished stories of Keef and Lennon
>and Zep and Moon "back
>in the day" before sending out their underlings to
>go and stalk Amy or go
>through Heath's rubbish bin for any juicy
>information.
>
>What we really should be criticising Amy of is
>dressing in a retro style -
>by the way someone mentioned a place to get cheap
>Beatle boots, can you
>e-mail me offlist. Sorry where was I? That's
>right, criticise the way
>she slavishly copies a past style of music - did I
>tell you about this new
>CD I bought? Beatlesque, Byrdsian and a little
>like Big Star and definitely
>a hint of The Zombies.
>
>Really everyone, is Amy Winehouse the worst person
>you could think of to win
>Best New Artist? I would have thought her style of
>music, which is 60's
>influenced, would be sort of up our alley, if not
>exactly the type of stuff
>we like, at least in the ballpark.
>
>Dave
>
>
>
>> 2.2. Re: Amy Winehouse wins BEST NEW ARTIST
>> Posted by: "bob" segarini@rogers.com
>> Mon Feb 11, 2008 8:04 am (PST)
>> I don't find her anything more than another
>hipster diversion.
>> Truth is, our society tests athletes for drugs
>and strip them of their
>> awards and stop them from participating if they
>come up positive.
>> I wonder what would happen to Hot
>AC/CHR/Urban/Hip Hop catagories for
>> awards and shows if the same criteria would be
>put forth.
>> Winehouse, for one, would be a cocktail waitress
>if that were so...
>
>> bob
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