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Re: @ CJs, EJ, OtR pushing the cart.



Bruce Lachey <lachey at bright_net> sez:
>Mr. Emery!  You ~have~ to have heard a CJs song!  

Nope, not to my knowledge, at least.

>Their cover of Reed's
>"Sweet Jane" was like a watermark for a lot of the understated female alt
>pop bands now, "Common Disaster" was all over the radio just 2 or 3 years
>back (and sounds freakin' awesome with Karin and Terri on backup).

Radio?   What's that?   I take my CDs with me everywhere I go.
Remember last night?   I had Yes _Relayer_ playing while we were
negotiating the parking lot.

>It's like me at the concert last night; I got dragged to an Elton John
>show, and I didn't know any of these, some of which I arguably should've
>known I guess.  I've heard the titles, don't think I'd heard the songs
>ever though:  Grey Seal, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Honky Cat, Blues Eyes, 
>Crocodile Rock, Philadelphia Freedom, The Bitch Is Back.  

You forgot 'Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy' - Elton did a
cool rendition of that one.

>I knew a lot of the others though.  During "Don't let the Sun..." I kept waiting for 
>George Michael to say, "ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Elton John!!".

LOL

>I think OtRs recent blatant commercialistic plea is fine; something they'd
>done around the time of Eve too.  It's a sink or swim world and they wanna 
>swim.  At least swim in a tour bus, not in a skank van.

True.   I wasn't knocking it, per se, just observing.   

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