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



Rex, great stuff. I think you have spoken pretty much for me as well.
If I had more energy tonight, I'd have more to add.
-Russ

On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Emilie <emilie.t.hsu@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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