From: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org (oppositeview-digest) To: oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Subject: oppositeview-digest V9 #165 Reply-To: oppositeview@smoe.org Sender: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk oppositeview-digest Sunday, October 12 2008 Volume 09 : Number 165 Today's Subjects: ----------------- OV: The Replacements reissues - strangely not off topic [Dave Subject: OV: The Replacements reissues - strangely not off topic I just got the latest round of reissues/remasters from The Replacements (Tim/Pleased To Meet Me/Don't Tell A Soul/All Shook Down) and in the liner notes their manager, Peter Jesperson, wrote for All Shook Down - this is the first section: "Here's one of the greatest American folk songs ever written." That's how Justin Currie - lead singer of the mega-selling Scottish rock group Del Amitri (and a fine composer in his own right) - introduced a song one night in 1991, onstage at The Roxy in Los Angeles. It was the encore of a sold-out show, a crucial moment for any performer when they strategically deliver a tour de force to dazzle and thank the audience for calling them back. Given Currie's intro, those in attendance might have expected something of a standard, a "This Land Is Your Land" or a "Blowin' In The Wind." But the song he played was from a record less than a year old, by a band that few people there had likely ever heard of. Currie performed the song solo on acoustic guitar, and no one appeared to question his declaration even if they didn't recognize it: "From the very first day that you were born..." ------------------------------ End of oppositeview-digest V9 #165 **********************************