Re: (TV) I dont know I guess

["Andy Ferguson" <andy@cheesemaker.fsnet.co.uk>]

He was joking Keith !

Sorry , must correct you on that particular matter .

Sense of humour score - Weller 1 Keith 0

Andy


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith Allison" <keith@marquee.demon.co.uk>
To: <tv@obbard.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 10:05 AM
Subject: Re: (TV) I dont know I guess


> In message <412001326213980@earthlink.net>, Gregg
> <murderedman@earthlink.net> writes
> >
> >    I don't know if it's because this is a Television list and might 
> >    therefore be a bit "helium-centric" but there's quite a lot of 
> >    bashing of "raspy-voiced" singers 
> 
> Well, I absolutely love Tom Waits and Beefheart and I don't think I'm
> alone here on that one.
> 
> > calling Weller a hippy 
> 
> Never said he was a hippy. I was just speculating as to where he stole
> his present day faux-hippy stuff from (following on from the faux-soul
> tedium of The Style Council). I saw The Jam in London when their first
> album came out and they were terrific (leaving aside the very dodgy
> Nationalist stage trappings and the appallingly-naive political crap
> they were coming out with). Weller was everything that everyone was
> saying he was; now he doesn't seem to be sure who he is. This is a man
> who once said, in print, (and not *that* long ago) "I won't listen to
> any music made by men with beards". Perhaps he didn't know what Dr. John
> looked like when he covered "Splinters". Maybe he was confusing The
> Beatles with The Monkees. I guess it's hard for him to see these things
> with his head stuck up his bum.
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