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Pete, New Wave, & Accents



	>From: "Schrade, Scott" 
	>Subject: Re: Pete, New Wave, & Accents 
>
>I mentioned *synthesizers* not anything "digital."  I believe Pete's
>old synthesizers were analog, weren't they?

Maybe I should have said "electronic".  
<cough> Technical Nazi.

>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.

Perhaps.  But, there was a clear and conscientious decision by English
musicians at a point to stop singing music in American dialect, and to stand
behind the "English way".

>Hold on there, "pardner."

Silver, Woah!!!!!

>What about the song "Dogs?"

Yellow Printa had a nice buttocks????

>And in 1982, Pete
>sang that little live addendum to "Long Live Rock" with a *very* pro-
>nounced English accent ("People walkin' soidways....")

So?  2 songs.

>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.

Hey, this isn't *my* theory.  It isn't even theory.  It's something that
I've always wondered about and then Pete confirmed in one of his recent
diaries.
The Who and other bands of their day (like the Stones and others influenced
by American Blues) purposely sang songs with American accents.

Did I misread Pete?
Don't think so.

Kevin in VT