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Re: OTR, Abba, and other musings
In a message dated 1/19/99 10:53:56 AM Eastern Standard Time,
jnedsfox at moody_edu writes:
> Over the (long) weekend we were fortunate enough to see a lot of bootleg
> OTR video (thanks, Jeff). After miles and miles of Channel 12 news stories
> which dated progressively farther and farther back in time (a strange
> complement to the current backwards-aging Mork and Mindy subject-- first
> Karen and Linford look solidly adult, then they start to look more and more
> like kids as each spot follows the latter), we got to watch both a
> partial Cornerstone show and a concert in Kentucky with a full orchestra.
Oh goodness - at Devou Park?! I was there & it was incredible. That was the
best OtR show I've seen since their long-ago Sudsy's gigs. I can't remember if
the entire new lineup was at that one or not.
> There was a time, before we were
> born, when music could and should be played by someone other than it's
> composer, but that time is over.
Yes, just look at Laibach's "Let It Be" Beatle's cover cd...
> That's it. What do you think?
*I* think that they really surprised me with the Abba cover & it was so much
fun. At first I laughed my head off - then I realized that in some very
strange way it made me respect them *even more* as musicians with how
flawlessly they pulled it off...
That was an incredible evening - sun getting down low, sitting on the green
grass in a bowl-shaped arena, listening to the laughter of small children and
the music of Over the Rhine, seeing lots of folks i hadn't seen in a very long
time...
jay
NP: just the sound of relentless stamping presses...
"You say you've got a bone to pick
Well, there's plenty showin' on me."
David Eugene Edwards - 16 hp
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