Re: More on TV & Smith/Smith's schtick / RE: (TV) Patti w/ Tom show suggestion

[Phil Obbard <pobbard@yahoo.com>]

I am not a huge Smith fan... aside from HORSES, and maybe EASTER every few
years, there's no album of hers I generally want to hear end-to-end... but I
have to say that the one time I saw her live (on a double-bill with Television
c. 2004), she was fantastic -- an electric performer with a strong backing
band. I don't need to buy her new albums (last one I got was GUNG HO, which I
promptly got rid of) but I'd see her live again if the opportunity arose, no
question.

--Phil



________________________________
 From: Keith Allison
<keith@thewonder.co.uk>
To: tv@obbard.com 
Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011
5:04 PM
Subject: Re: More on TV & Smith/Smith's schtick /  RE: (TV) Patti w/
Tom  show suggestion
 
On 27/12/2011 18:34, Leo Casey wrote:
> I am probably
in the minority, but I have always been very disappointed in
> recordings of
Smith shows when Tom was in her touring band.  Number one:  I
> can never hear
him!; he's buried in the mix; and two:  he keeps such a low
> profile, in
fact, he goes way, way overboard in trying not to step musically
> on Lenny
Kaye's toes.

Leo, agree with you 100% . I just don't think he even bothers to
pretend.
>
>   it just reinforced in my mind how over-rated Smith is
> as a
musical performer/singer/songwriter.  Her whole schtick I find tiresome
> and
pretentious.
Leo, have we ever agreed so much about /anything /before?! ;-)
I'd add "poet" to that list, too.



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