But Smith's "Gloria" is incantatory and mesmerizing—and filled with genuine r'n'r passion, so on the day she's inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame, I'll give her props on that one.
In 1979, IIRC, I saw Smith at Portland's Paramount Theater. She ended her set with "Gloria," as usual, but she took it perhaps a bit too far into unknown territory. The other band members eventually left the stage, leaving Ms. Smith by…
That's just too weird to be true. Isn't it?
Am I the only one amused by the fact that this was determined by a multiple-choice test?
During January's CES, John Atkinson and I attended a Furman Sound press briefing, where we became acquainted with the company's new line of power conditioners.
I enjoyed listening to Furman's Garth Powell discuss the importance of pure AC. I wrote:
He's as intense as some of the most beautiful music we've heard at the show, sharing his ideas with a conviction appropriate for song, and punctuating his lyrics with a clap of the hands and a fist into palm: "When that power comes through," he says, "BAM!"
And now I've just quoted myself. I'm not sure what…
"The concept of keeping your thoughts private could be profoundly altered in the future."
Final Approval by: 3/16/2007
Scheduled…
When I worked at a classical label back in the '80s, I was talking to a Sony executive and complimented him on the success of Perahia's Mozart piano concerto series. He laughed ruefully, saying, "You have no idea how hard we had to work to make that happen. We released 8 LPs before even one of them was in the black. We kept releasing discs because we believed in Perahia."
Contrast that with today. I was talking to an A-list classical musician not long ago, whose label…