RE: (TV) I'll miss Mr. C but...

["Greg Grant" <GGrant@scdhb.sk.ca>]

Well it's no Hotel California but it is still a fine album.  Some review
with Verlaine (probably on Howards, Keith's or the defunct(?) Marquee Moon
site)accused the Wonder as being unguitary to which Verlaine responded that
it has guitar bass and drums, what else do you want?  Careful listen of the
Wonder was a great surprise for me.  There are so many subtle things going
on with the guitars and he weaves multiple parts together so effortlessly
that I didn't even realise they were there.  My best example off hand is
Ancient Egypt were the intro lead, chorus lead and verse lead are all thrown
together at one point and I realised that Mr. Verlaine spent a lot of time
in his apartment figuring things out...

I've heard two acoustic bootlegs of Verlaine (SF and the other was on the
legendary funback).  Verlaine was pretty sour at SF it seemed but the
funpack one he was hilarious.  The SF show is really funny though as the
guys recording it are getting progressivlyy drunk and wipe out a table full
of bottles.

Richard Thompson acoustic solo is amazing.

I'll shut-up now.

Greg

-----Original Message-----
From: tv-owner@obbard.com [mailto:tv-owner@obbard.com]On Behalf Of Brian
Young
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 5:25 PM
To: tv@obbard.com
Subject: (TV) I'll miss Mr. C but...

I'll throw something out there for potential discussion:  The Wonder.  I
looked for it for years before finally buying over the internet, and when I
finally got it, I was hugely disappointed. And when I saw Tom play
acoustically at the Paradise in Boston on April 12, 1990, I was also let
down that he gave such a lackluster performance.  In comparison to acoustic
performers such as Richard Thompson, Neil Young, Peter Blegvad and hell,
Louden Wainwright III fr crying out loud, Tom lacked charisma and compelling
songs.  And I have the bootleg of that show (taped poorly, by myself
unfortunately) that I've gone back to a number of times thinking I must've
been previously wrong.

I say this although I have deep respect for him as an artist.  I will now go
back to The Wonder and this bootleg and listen again as penance and to see
if I have since changed my mind.

Well, there you go, the cat's outta the bag. Now I'll probably be banished
or shunned. Or both.

Cheers,

Brian
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