Re: [bomp] Dylan at a club last night

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From: "Immortal Porpoises" <immortalporpoises@earthlink.net>
To: <bomp@xnet2.com>
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 8:48 AM
Subject: Re: [bomp] Dylan at a club last night



> Speaking of oldies acts: I don't know if it was just something wrong that
> night, but 3 years ago I saw John Sebastian open for the Everly Brothers.
He
> sang 4 songs, sounded like he had his larynx removed and had a frog
> surgically implanted where it used to be,

I think there is a medical reason for his voice. Throat surgery? Cancer? I'm
not sure.

 and finished up with a long
> harmonica solo. The Everlys sang like no time had passed, did not look at
> each other through the whole show (I guess they still haven't settled
> anything but love the paycheck),

Brothers are always going to have a complicated relationship. That stuff
probably is going to come and go no matter what.

> did not change a single note of any song's
> original arrangement, and you might have well been listening to them
> lip-sync to a 1965 show on playback.
>
> Johnny Maestro does a pretty classy show, glittery tuxes & slathered in
> oldies-circuit schmaltz and joie-de-vivre that can't be faked.

Great voice, never liked his hits though.

 Just saw Jay
> Black two weeks ago. That was a shocker. No schmaltz at all, everyone wore
> jeans & t-shirts, lots of sarcasm, dirty jokes & foul language.
> Unapologetically subjected us to letting his 20 year-old son sing one
while
> Jay had a glass of water. And that voice. Holy Cara Mia, Batman!

His voice never did anything for me. All those overstated operatics need
good material or they just sound silly. Probably fun to do at kareoke night
while drunk, though.

I know "She Cried" wasn't him, but it had the same problem, the singer
chewing the scenery, so to speak. I always like the Shangrilas version A LOT
more.

Speaking of whom, I just saw the fake Shangs the other day. (Free and a
block away from my apartment, why not). They're fun, I'll give them that.
Nothing worth mentioning musically, though. I get a kick out of how they
have to refer to the group in the third person all the time. ("This was a
big hit for The Shangrilas (or "the group")" rather than saying "This was a
big hit for us." Of course, it wasn't a big hit for them. The closest they
come to being real Shangs is one of them is named Mary.)

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