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| Subject | Re: DC5 PBS documentary |
| Date | Tue, 15 Apr 2014 10:37:55 -0400 |
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Hi Bill,
Apparently, in the last forty years, Dave accepted a trophy, was involved in a musical and horded TV shows. This could easily have been a sixty minute show.
It was eerie how it was done by Clark and yet was so laudatory of him. Lots of snippets of wonderful music. I thought it was hysterical that the videos of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones had the band name on the screen for identification, as if anyone interested enough to tune in wouldn't know them.
See ya,
Sherman
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From: "Holmes Online" <bholmes_fm@msn.com>
Sent: ‎4/‎15/‎2014 7:57 AM
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Subject: DC5 PBS documentary
Hello Auditeers:
Hope you all got to see the documentary on PBS? After having seen the
first series of PBS DVDs on 60s bands (Hollies, Small Faces, etc.) I was
*really* stoked, but after seeing the show I have mixed feelings.
Of course I love the singles and I think of them as one of the great 60s
bands, but as you learn more about the groups later on, they come off
more like the Eagles...a "band" that is really a leader and sidemen.
Clark made all the money, owns everything, controls everything. Dave
Clark was obviously one of the smartest musicians for having the
foresight to understand publishing and production was where the cash cow
grazed; licensing his music and then having the masters revert was
Nostradomian of him. But then the same guy has been sitting on his music
throughout the CD era holding out for big money while his core audience
withers and dies. Not to mention the royalties that hopefully Smith
would have been entitled to, if not the whole band. (Of course it could
be argued that he slapped his name on Mike Smith's work like
Jagger/Richard do when Ron Wood writes a Stones tune...)
Mike Smith never gets mentioned when the lists of great R&R vocalists
are made. Still pissed about the R&RHOF - and here's yet another reason
why I abhor the place - he didn't get to walk onstage to take a well
deserved bow because Wenner and his cronies changed the votes that year
so the inductees were more demographically sampled.
And as much as I enjoyed the music and the reminiscing, how
ego-maniacally self-serving was that presentation? Famous "music
authorities" like Whoopi Goldberg placing the DC5 in the same breath as
The Beatles and Stones as if The Hollies, The Kinks, The Animals didn't
exist? (Hell, Herman's Hermits were as dominant on the charts.) Plus all
that (cough) TIME (cough) dedicated to that bloated musical fantasy that
had nothing to do with the band? Dave Clark as an actor? Perhaps there's
a reason why Clark's face is large, front, and center on the cover and
the rest of "the boys" (his words, not mine) have only half a face on
the four corners. Side-men, if you will. My god...it's the DC1.
I'm sure I'll wind up buying it anyway, but that's my sickness. I'm only
praying that the cover boasting "four hours" of material means "disc 2"
will be chock full of music and not just an audio commentary featuring
Gene Simmons.
So...what did YOU think?
almost blogging but not quite
b
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