Re: [bomp] "except for Jeff Beck"

[jumpinginthenight <jumpinginthenight@xxxxxxxxx>]

Peter still can do it. I have 'em vocalizing with local genius Richard X. Heyman on the recent HERMAN, HOOSIER, HEYMAN EP. RXH will be regrouping his '60s band the Doughboys (one of 'em went on to Ramjam!) soon. 
That line about Relf was in an old rock book and been repeated unfairly for a long time.

BlackMonk <Blackmonk@email.msn.com> wrote:

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Subject: [bomp] "except for Jeff Beck"


>
> He was dissing Keith
> Relf,
> > who did a fine job on "Smokestack Lightning" and "Shapes of Things" if
I'm
> > not mistaken.
>
> Yeah, you are. He did a competent job as singer, but he was never someone
> whose name you'd mention with Colin Blunstone or Paul Jones, or Lennon or
> McCartney.
>
> Well, I like Relf... technically, o.k., whatever, but see, Relf GOT IT
> somehow. I think Mike Stax is also a Relf-appreciator, we've discussed
this one.
> He was a little bummed when I told him about that Lennon comment.
>

I'm not talking technically. As a singer, Relf wasn't in the same league as
any of them. Feel, ability to communicate emotion, ability to make lyrics
believable, whatever you want to call it, they were all miles above Relf.
Which isn't to say that Keith Relf was bad, but it's very rare that you'll
listen to a Yardbirds song and the singing is what sticks in your mind or
you'll think, "wow, THAT is how that song should be sung."

To be honest, if you put Keith Relf up against Peter Noone, I might pick
Noone.

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