From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V8 #184 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Wednesday, September 23 2009 Volume 08 : Number 184 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] Re: loud-fans-digest V8 #183 [robert toren Subject: [loud-fans] Re: loud-fans-digest V8 #183 > From: Andrew Hamlin > "Scott's great talent was as a songwriter. Had he given the > vocal > reins away, the music would have been much more accessible > and the > band might have really broken out." > Still, anybody who thinks the Game Theory records could > have been > improved by Donnette singing every song (or even every > third song), > stick up a hand. (hand in lap) For the record, I don't agree with Gui - those are Scott songs, he had to sing them and I love them the way they are - plus, Donnette's vocals are all over 2-steps (Wyoming, Room for One More, Honey) without noticeably increasing sales - so that sort of disproves the hypothetical that Donnette's vocals would have equaled bigger success for GT (trying to imagine Donnette singing Real Sheila or Fred Juhos singing Erica's Word ... and wincing...) ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V8 #184 *******************************