Re: Full of it / RE: (TV) Sour Grapes / Alternate Ver of Television's Founding?

[Emilie <emilie.t.hsu@gmail.com>]

That is a lovely way to put it!!!
Well done.

On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 7:48 PM, BlackMonk <BlackMonk@email.msn.com> wrote:
> On 7/24/2011 7:23 PM, Rex Broome wrote:
>>
>> Well, I expected to step in it with a few RL partisans, but I never
>> thought
>> I would piss off any Tom fans!  So I should probably clear up my position
>> here.
>>
>> Tom is my favorite guitarist ever, full stop, no holds barred.  Part of
>> that
>> is *because* of his distinctive original signature sound.  Most of my
>> other
>> favorites have something similar going on, and most, like Tom, are also
>> songwriters.  Richard would clock in in the top 20, but the top 10 would
>> be
>> too full of Richard Thompsons and Neil Youngs and Bob Moulds and Jim
>> McGuinns to allow for even the most exciting "sideman" (which Richard
>> probably is) to crack the top 10.
>>
>> Tom's also one of my favorite songwriters and lyricists.  I don't think
>> he'll ever get enough credit in that area.
>
>
> I think you're right about the difference between Tom and Richard.  I think
> it's like the difference between Lennon and McCartney. If you asked John to
> make a disco record, he'd have come up with "Whatever Gets You Through The
> Night" and if you asked Paul, he'd come up with "Goodnight Tonight." One is
> a John Lennon record that he gave a disco arrangement to and the other is a
> disco record as done by Paul McCartney.
>
> One thing I noticed that goes against what I said earlier about Tom not
> being a blues-rock player is that he does a nice Jeff Beck (Yardbirds era)
> impression in Foxhole. I don't think he made a habit of it, though.
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