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Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] So - The train wreck finally wrecked

From: "Tony" <atm655@verizon.net>
Date: 2011-07-24

I saw "Missing Persons" in their day.
Enjoyed them, and have liked Terry Bozio since Zappa times.
 
Sad when people self destruct.
 
Tony
----- Original Message -----
From: Ms. Janet Strauss
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2011 8:34 PM
Subject: RE: [newmellotrongroup] So - The train wreck finally wrecked

 

 

Well Frank. She can sing.

“Edge of Glory” and “Hair” on Howard Stern……. is pretty darn good.

I still thought “Monster Ball’ was crap….bread and circus for the masses.

But her and paino and her voice…pretty good.

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com [mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of lsf5275@aol.com
Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2011 7:18 PM
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] So - The train wreck finally wrecked

 

 

Jim,

Watch the video on you tube of Gaga on Howard Stern. I used to feel the same way. I may not "get" her but man can she sing and she is actually pretty down to earth.

 

In a message dated 7/23/2011 6:48:05 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, jandjstrz@verizon.net writes:

 

 

She wasn’t one of the greatest, and that genre doesn’t fly with some….I don’t get Billie Holiday.

Or lady Gaga….but I’ll listen to Amy Wino before I suffer Lady Gaga.

Jim

 

-----Original Message-----
From: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com [mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of David Jacques
Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2011 11:23 AM
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] So - The train wreck finally wrecked

 

 

I agree... all these people are saying that she was one if "the greatest"... Sorry... She was good...  but great?

 

She always sounded high to me... slurring her words.. etc... Style?  maybe so... But considering what has happened...

 

Unfortunately, most will remember her for this performance:

 

 

Shame....

 

 

 

On Jul 24, 2011, at 12:55 AM, Mike Dickson wrote:

 

On 23/07/2011 21:17, Ms. Janet Strauss wrote:

 

 

Yep. She had a gift, and a look.


I have to confess that I didn't 'get' it about her at all. She could sing on key without a doubt, but her voice was so mannered and affected that I couldn't make out a single word she was singing, and that was even when she was relatively clean.  

It's sad someone that young dies, but really it was all her own doing. My sympathies are somewhat restrained.

Mike