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Re: Pete, New Wave, & Accents
> Well, Schrade beat me to the punch by mentioning digital work.
> That's one major influence on New Wave.
I mentioned *synthesizers* not anything "digital." I believe Pete's
old synthesizers were analog, weren't they?
> What is interesting here is that Pete clearly jumps on the NW band-
> wagon, yet the rest of the band and it's music doesn't.
It was more of a fashion thing than anything else with Pete.
> I also find it interesting how genuine English Punk bagged the idea
> of singing in American dialect and allowed for English accents.
I think the English Punk bands just accentuated their already exist-
ing English accent so it would be more pronounced in their songs. It
made bitching about the English system of government a little more
street credible.
> It's always puzzled me how a band like The Who, a *VERY* English band
> would sing songs in American accents.
Hold on there, "pardner." What about the song "Dogs?" And in 1982, Pete
sang that little live addendum to "Long Live Rock" with a *very* pro-
nounced English accent ("People walkin' soidways....")
And besides, accents tend to disappear when people sing, anyways. Look
at the ABBA girls (who wouldn't want to do that?!). They didn't even
*understand* a lot of the English they were singing in the 70's & yet,
for the most part, their Swedish accents can't be heard.
I think it depends a bit on the song & even the genre. Genuine American
Country music has that very pronounced American drawl. But that's part
of the genre & what makes it Country.
- SCHRADE in Akron