--- 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