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Re: Neil Finn/Crowded House
Yah, I agree. Every NZ tourist I've met comes across as geniune. A surreal
experience in Spain once, seated at an outdoor cafe was a couple in their
upper 60s or so. They were NZlanders, and I told them two of my favorite
artists were from there; they excitedly asked who it was and I said "Neil
Finn and Dave Dobbyn" and you would have thought she birthed them both she
was so happy.
I can't imagine my mum talking to a kid from NZ and being excited that he
listens to Billy Joel or Marilyn Manson.
Bruce
>From: OncleBoo at aol_com
>
>Bruce writes:
>
> > Quite personable, that Neil. At WOMAD, Crowded House artist and bassist
> > Nick Seymour was mere metres from me. "Coy!" I exclaimed and had a bit
>of
>a
> >
> > chat with him as I conned him into signing my Crowded CD booklet.
>Genuinely
> >
> > unassuming, nice guy.
>
>I know we're supposed to avoid generalizations and all that, but this seems
>to be the way Kiwis are. Everyone I met down there in NZ last year was
>ridiculously pleasant to talk to and easy to get along with. More than
>once,
>I wished that we Americans were more like the Kiwis. I can't wait to make
>that 12 hour flight again in a few months!
>
>Steve
>oncleboo at aol_com
>
>np: Shaver - "Victory"
>
>"I alternate between fantasy and the cold hard truth, I oscillate between
>the
>cool and the uncouth; but I resonate to the piercing eyes of God I sought
>in
>my youth." -- The 77's
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