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- From: tcbowden@clovis.felton.ca.us (Timothy Bowden)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
- Subject: Re: Laura Nyro
- Message-ID: <VFBRwB2w165w@clovis.felton.ca.us>
- Date: Sat, 02 Jan 93 07:55:54 PST
- References: <1992Dec16.235707.1@cubldr.colorado.edu>
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- stegner_g@cubldr.colorado.edu writes:
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- > - when she made her now infamous appearance at 1967's Monterey Pop
- > Festival, where she got 'booed' off the stage for not being
- > 'psychedelic' enough. But what do you expect from a bunch of
- > completely stoned, unsensitive hippies?
-
- The same happened to Dylan when he first went electric. The wild and
- free generation were no less culturally structured than their elders, it
- would seem, and maybe even less forgiving.
-
- Three references occur to me regarding Laura Nyro, and all of them
- involve Dylan, in some way. Once was when she was very young, very new,
- and terribly shy. Dylan wanted to meet her at one of those loft parties
- in New Yawk. She spent the interview, it was reported, in nervous
- giggles.
-
- The last only I would relate to Nyro. Paul Simon on the old Cavett show
- was rummaging through his list of songwriters for us, and he prefaced a
- criticism of Dylan with the obligatory paen to his genius and then
- related his reaction to a new tune, a new album, and the same, tired old
- three-chord harmonic structure. (Simon didn't mention Nyro, or any
- other female artist; and that's another sad habit from those days...)
-
- Even when music is supposed to be innovative it can settle into a
- predictable chiming quarter. Dizzy Gillespie said in liner notes once
- you have to create a rhythm for every tune so they don't all sound
- alike. That's what I recall about the early Nyro from years ago; she
- did not just graft her personal history onto ancient vines, but created
- a new seed altogether. Eli was outrageous in its time (and perhaps
- later...).
-
-
- Should be a Laura Nyro mailing list. Debbie Gibson and Tiffany have
- one!
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