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posted by davidt
on Friday October 06 2000, @09:00AM
TrblLuvsMe sends:
OC Weekly, September 29, 2000
GEORGE FRYER, SESSION MAN TO THE STARS, NOW SOLO
Let me preface this by saying that I equate the current musical period to the time between 1960 and 1963--after Elvis went into the Army but before the Beatles. Music critics used to lament that era ad nauseam, going on about how awful it was and how they were inundated with the likes of Fabian and Frankie Avalon. But they had it good back then--at least they still had the Kingsmen, surf rock, Sinatra, the Rat Pack, the Beach Boys, Motown . . . hmmm . . . Well, maybe it wasn't that great. And it's not so great now, either. However, we do have some hope. Here's what I think:
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> The Smiths. Pretty much everything. I'd forgotten how grand they were. Morrissey is so incredibly droll--he slays me (plus he shares my birthday). The brilliant Johnny Marr is the most underrated axe man ever, not in a Jimi Hendrix way but in a Henry Mancini sort of way. Check out the critically dismissed Hatful of Hollow and Strangeways, Here We Come, and you'll discover heaven. They were like the Doors, in the way they said their piece and got the hell out. Six great albums, with hardly any filler. Enough to forgive Morrissey for his crummy 59-minute live shows in the 1990s.
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