Yeah. Adelsheim ----- Original Message ----- From: audities-owner@smoe.org To: audities@smoe.org Sent: Wed Mar 24 11:11:28 2010 Subject: Re: I dropped everything to buy album XXX Is this the same David Werner who released Wizz Kid? michael --- On Wed, 3/24/10, Gregory Sager wrote: > From: Gregory Sager > Subject: Re: I dropped everything to buy album XXX > To: audities@smoe.org > Date: Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 2:00 PM > > Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:10:12 > -0700 (PDT) > > From: govango > > To: audities@smoe.org > > Subject: "I dropped everything > to buy 'album > XXX' > > Message-ID: <234808.45432.qm@web39708.mail.mud.yahoo.com> > > > >  I read a review of Girlfriend by Mtthew Sweet in > the old > > Tower Records magazine Pulse, called the Rhino Records > store > > in New Paltz. They had a copy > > so I drove over and grabbed it. Still one of my all > time > > favorite albums. > > > >  michael > > > > It's 1979. I'm a high school senior who has become a > full-fledged, skinny-tie New Waver in terms of musical > taste. Syracuae's 95X, which was far from being the most > ambitious rock station in American radio with regard to > playlist eclecticism, starts playing a turbocharged power > pop number called "Can't Imagine" by some guy named David > Werner. I run out and buy his newly-released eponymous > album. It turns out to be an amazing disc, running a > surprising gamut of styles but packed with energy, hooks, > and tough guitars on just about every song. > > Werner vanished into the ether as a recording artist, never > to release another album. (He's since become a low-profile > songwriter and producer who has worked with people ranging > from Billy Idol to Tom Jones.) But *David Werner* remains > one of my all-time favorite albums to this day. > > > Gregory Sager > > > >       >