Re: Linda Perry

[Jeff Williams <jeffw@mxim.com>]

> From list-owner-thewho-outgoing@cisco.com Mon May 22 10:55:38 1995
> Date:         Mon, 22 May 95 13:07:55 EDT
> From: Kate <KAL93003@UConnVM.UConn.Edu>
> Subject:      Linda Perry
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> What's the matter Mr. Derby? All your rock-n-roll has to be testosterone
> based? Linda Perry blew everyone but Roger off the stage. She has power,
> range and a lot of guts.  She sang in every sense of the word. Cover tunes
> don't have to mimic the original to be good -- in fact, why cover something
> if you don't make it your own? Dr. Jimmy will never be the same -- only better
> and better!
> 
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> Kate Laity                             kal93003@uconnvm.uconn.edu
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> MISERUM NOLI IRRIDERE         http://www.ucc.uconn.edu/~kal93003/
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What can I say?  Kate, you've hit the nail on the head.  No, she didn't mimic
it.  She sang it her own way.  Her own style. She, like the Who, has the rare
talent to make a cover more than its original.  That is a very very tall order.  It was the ONLY song on that show that made the hair raise on the
back of my neck.  I only saw the PPV in its original form, and I haven't
heard it since, but that was my impression.  I did like the orchestration
throughout, tho.  I don't like Simon Phillips as a drummer, I must admit.
There is a correct and incorrect way to overplay drums. Moon=correct.

Jeff W.