Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (09/15/90)
Really-From: ed@das.llnl.gov (Edward Suranyi) The Sept. 1990 issue of _Q_ magazine has an interview with David Gilmour. One of the questions is about Kate: Interviewer: When you brought Kate Bush to the attention of EMI, you somehow acquired the image of an avuncular helping hand to the next generation. . . Gilmour: Did I? I did do a couple of things with Kate, I suppose. To a certain extent, if you see something that you think is brilliant, and particularly if that thing is being presented in such a way that most cloth-eared record company people wouldn't notice if it hit them falling off the top of a truck, then I sometimes feel a certain sense of responsibility to bring out what I think is good and *then* bring it to their attention, which is what I did with Kate. Her home demos were of her sitting at a horrible piano, recorded with a very ancient tape-recorder, and her squeaking away. I listened to them and I could hear the talent but wouldn't have dreamt of taking them to a record company. I knew the only way to do it was to tart them up, if you like. We recorded her properly, with a proper producer and the best engineer, Geoff Emerick, arranger, and chose three or four songs out of about 50, and made a proper record and presented it to EMI. And of course they said, Yes, great, we'll take it. There's also an article about Nigel Kennedy. I'll just quote one sentence: "One wonders how long it will be before 'Nige' -- who has played with Paul McCartney (who he calls 'Macca') and Kate Bush (who he calls 'Bush Baby' . . . in Nigel's world, as in soccer and, indeed, heavy metal, everybody must have their nickname) -- will be saying 'Awright, Carnegie Hall! Are you ready to rawk?!?' or some such." Bush Baby????? Every month _Q_ has a rock'n'roll quiz. This month it's "Dogs in Rock". 15 pictures of dogs taken from album covers are shown, you have to say what albums the pictures are from. Any Love-Hound who takes longer than one-half second to find the dog from the cover of _Hounds Of Love_ should have his or her membership revoked! :-) Ed Suranyi | Interviewer: Most of the women I know who ed@das.llnl.gov | aspire to make a living making (415) 447-3405 | music would rather be you then, 3550 Pacific Ave #312 | say, Madonna. Livermore, CA 94550 | Kate: Oh, really! Ha!
zeak@wet.UUCP (George Todd) (09/18/90)
I was just wondering if any other KT fan-natics have the same problem with TSW that I have. Namely I hate it. I LOVE everything else Saint Kate has done, but that one leaves me blank. Comments?
Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (09/20/90)
Really-From: munnari!cs.uow.edu.au!u8706672@uunet.UU.NET (John Quintal) G'day again, zeak@wet.UUCP (George Todd) writes: >I was just wondering if any other KT fan-natics have the same problem with TSW that I have. Namely I hate it. >I LOVE everything else Saint Kate has done, but that one leaves me blank. >Comments? Do you really want to start up this discussion again?!?! For what it's worth though: I do like TSW. I agree it may not be as good as her other albums but hey, her other albums are pretty hard to beat so why not just take the album as it is and enjoy instead of comparing them! Naturally, I concede, that comparison of an artist's work always accompanies any new release. It therefore depends on whether you are a Kate fan or a fan of her music. As for myself I am both so I don't compare albums I just listen to the one I feel like listening to at the time. On the other hand, you probably have not listened to it enough. In which case, just sit down and listen to it. I don't mean pull it apart and analyse it (I'm not saying you would do this) but let it MOVE you! Kate works on an EMOTIONAL level and you have to listen to the album in this way. So just listen to it and I'm sure every time you do you will find something new in every song. I'm not saying you haven't done this, just that it is possible. You may end up having to ask yourself WHY you like Kate's earlier music. If it is the same reason as myself (i.e. because it appeals to the emotions rather that logic, and I'm a programmer so I need this release) then you may end up having a different view of TSW. Some Kate fans on this group have said that the "inferior" quality of TSW could be due to Del Palmer's influence. Hmmm. Del's a musician, and not a bad one at that, but maybe it could have something to do with equipment. Anyone know what equipment such as synths or sequencers were used? Please don't flame me too hard! Bye! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | John "actually it's Joao with | "Jigging along with the fiddle, | | a '~' on the a" Quintal.| ooh Johnny!" | | u8706672@wraith.cs.uow.edu.au | Kate Bush. | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Disclaimer: I deny ever having said that! - Mother. | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~