Re: [bomp] "except for Jeff Beck"

[Michael Snider <lasciviumdei@xxxxxxxxx>]

 --- BlackMonk <Blackmonk@email.msn.com> escribis: 
> 
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> Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 12:32 PM
> Subject: [bomp] "except for Jeff Beck"
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> 
> >
> > 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."

Disagree. Who could have done a better job on some of
the
folky numbers than Relf? Or "Ever Since The World
Began"

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

No way. Noone's singing on Herman's Hermits' R&B
covers is 
down there with Pat Boone's R&B covers - at least Relf
never sounded embarrassing or out of his league....

I'd also put Relf above John Mayall as a singer, to
name someone
more musically comparable....  

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