From: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org (jinglejangle-digest) To: jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Subject: jinglejangle-digest V3 #107 Reply-To: jinglejangle@smoe.org Sender: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jinglejangle-digest Wednesday, August 9 2000 Volume 03 : Number 107 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [MLL] voice & guitar ["Carsten Wohlfeld" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 11:23:29 +0200 From: "Carsten Wohlfeld" Subject: [MLL] voice & guitar hey kids, first of all, thanks to all who replied to my "review" mail... and i have to say i think dino's right when he wrote: > I'm not so sure that we all "know" this. Amazing voice? Mary > Lou could never out-yodel Whitney Houston, but her voice is > perhaps her greatest gift - it doesn't break glass but it melts > hearts. > Masterful guitar technique? Of course not... but she's become a solid > guitarist, if inconsistent, and her playing works perfectly for 99% > of the songs she plays. especially when it comes to live shows, why would you go see her, if not for the voice and guitar? of course, she's charming and knows gazillions of funny stories, but if that was all there is to it, you might as well spend the evening with some good friends at a comedy club, right? wouldn't this also mean that she's basically just selling records because people want to post setlists after the show, because when she's reduced to just singing and her music, is neither amazing nor masterful. hmmm... just a thought... - -- http://carstenwohlfeld.de "what's great about america is: a coke is a coke and no amount of money can get you a better coke. all the cokes are good. liz taylor knows it, the president knows it, the bum knows it and you know it." (andy warhol) ------------------------------ End of jinglejangle-digest V3 #107 **********************************