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Re: covers in general




>In the US? The US catalog says 1968.  But since the UK release was probably 
>before then that's what counts.  You get the idea anyway.

Ian:
OK, the US release was 1/68. Granted.

>
>Well since Townshend lifted things from the Kinks in his early
>writing, I would agree and yet disagree. 

I don't know of anything that Townshend "lifted" other than the chord
structure for I Can't Explain (which is no more than The Kinks did to The
Beatles with their version of Long Tall Sally, their first single). You
could say the same about Polly being lifted from Happy Jack...

>Something Else IMHO sounds dead in comparison to Village.  "Sitting
>By the Riverside" sounds better than anything Shel produced, yet Ray
>incorporated Talmy's techniques.  

SOMETHING ELSE was produced in an acid age for an acid audience. It was
meant to sound unusual (the same goes for FACE TO FACE), and IMHO it worked
very well. VGPS is warmer, naturally...again intentionally. But soundwise,
it's pretty clear we have an amateur at the helm.

>I have the Tommy Demos, but again that wasn't my original point.
>PT's production still doesn't have the life of the Tommy album, at
>least bass wise.  If you don't have the gold disc of Tommy then I
>can understand.

I do have the gold disk TOMMY. Sure, it has more depth. But that is not what
was released in either the USA or the UK in 1969. I've always been
disappointed in Lambert's rather limited production of The Who, and TOMMY is
the prime example. I would still have to say that Davies was a better producer.
Of course, it may be down to what each of us prefers, productionwise.
    Cheers                          ML