At Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 15:30:47 -0500 > > >----- Original Message ----- From: >>I'll also go out on a limb and suggest that, with a sturdy razor blade and >>a device for evening out odd time signatures, Yes could have been turned >>into a very cool power pop band. Okay...I'm gonna get kicked for this, but I always thought KISS was a jangly guitar part away from having the pop thing down....Simmons proved it on his first solo outting ("Mr. Make Believe", "Man Of 1000 Faces"). 'Rock And Roll All Nite' always struck me as a heavy-handed, and drummed, response to The Bay City Rollers' "Saturday Night". The period where they were the closest to power pop was 1975 to 1977: "Destroyer" ("Great Expectations", "Flaming Youth", "Shout It Out Loud", and "Do You Love Me"); "Rock And Roll Over" ("Take Me", "Ladies Room", "Love 'Em & Leave 'Em", and "See You In Your Dreams"); pieces of "Love Gun" ("Christine Sixteen", "Tomorrow & Tonight", the classic "And Then She Kissed Me") even into Alive III (Dave Clark's "Anyway You Want It" anyone?). Jaimie Vernon, President, Bullseye Records "Not Infecting Our Customers' Computers Since 1985!!" http://www.bullseyecanada.com http://www.bullseyerecords.com Author, Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Pop_Encyclopedia/ http://www.myspace.com/jaimievernonsmovingtargetz