Re: covers in general

[Ian Derby <csc2imd@cabell.vcu.edu>]

> > >
> > >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...
> 
> Polly = Happy Jack?  I have to listen to Polly again.  In Marsh's
> "Before I Get Old" book he mentions Pete's two upward key changes in
> My Generation being "pinched" from the Kinks.  There is nothing
> wrong with any of this, it's just that Pete did build on the Kinks
> early singles and made them better.  
> 
> 
> > 
> > >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.
> > 
> 
> Ray denies in his new book "X-Ray" that Something Else had anything
> to do with the "acid age".  In fact it was how he really 
> didn't budge from his writing of natural surroundings and
> interpersonal relationships.  I don't see the production of SE to
> sound intentionally like say "Piper at the Gates of Dawn".
> 
> 
> > >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.
> 
> 
> 
> I'd like to get an original Decca copy of this and see for myself.
> Knowing MCA's shoddy work on Who's Next (the bargain basement LP
> version that many of us had to live with).  I'd like to think that
> the original LP has a depth that resembles the newer gold disc.
> 
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