Re: [bomp] "except for Jeff Beck"

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Snider" <lasciviumdei@yahoo.com>
To: <bomp@xnet2.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 3:01 AM
Subject: Re: [bomp] "except for Jeff Beck"


> > I'm not talking technically. As a singer, Relf
> > wasn't in the same league as
> > any of them. Feel, ability to communicate emotion,
> > ability to make lyrics
> > believable, whatever you want to call it, they were
> > all miles above Relf.
> > Which isn't to say that Keith Relf was bad, but it's
> > very rare that you'll
> > listen to a Yardbirds song and the singing is what
> > sticks in your mind or
> > you'll think, "wow, THAT is how that song should be
> > sung."
>
> Disagree. Who could have done a better job on some of
> the
> folky numbers than Relf? Or "Ever Since The World
> Began"
>

Colin Blunstone, for one. Probably most members of Fairport Convention and
Steeleye Span, all of The Beatles with the possible except of Ringo...

> > To be honest, if you put Keith Relf up against Peter
> > Noone, I might pick
> > Noone.
>
> No way. Noone's singing on Herman's Hermits' R&B
> covers is
> down there with Pat Boone's R&B covers - at least Relf
> never sounded embarrassing or out of his league....
>

"New York City Blues."

Oh, and Peter Noone could do folky better than Relf.

> I'd also put Relf above John Mayall as a singer, to
> name someone
> more musically comparable....
>

I'd put him above Mayall, but then I'd also put Noone above Mayall. I'd put
Peter Green above all three as a singer, though.

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