RIP Amy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaAB5qwhi0w
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" <jr_esq@...> wrote: > > Those clips of her when she was sober showed her true talent. But this was > her last performance: > > http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/stopthepresses/392230/amy-winehouses-slow-fade-five-years-of-fallowness/ > > May she rest in peace. > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltablues@> > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > > > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > > > > > We really have to get this drug-synapse connection handled. > > > > I am sick of losing people to this shit. > > > > > > > > At her best: > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVBoXtxD0Rs&playnext=1&list=PL2D4F755C610950CA > > > > > > I was SO not a fan, Curtis. I don't think I'd ever > > > listened to a single one of her songs, largely because > > > I couldn't get past her public image as Out Of Control > > > Girl. > > > > I had two predispositions to not like her music, the one you mention as > > well as a style of music that is usually too soft for my primitive tastes. > > But having been given her CD for a birthday present one year, I gave it a > > fair listen and once again, as often happens in matters of my taste > > prejudices, I found I was wrong. The girl had real talent, a distinctive > > voice, and a sly sense of humor expressed in her personal style and song > > choices. > > > > I'm sorry you didn't get to hear that song because it was in her hands the > > genuine article. I found this version. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UufMAsvzgs&feature=related > > > > Could Beyonce sing this song this believably? Adele? Any other > > contemporary artist? It took Amy, and the reasons she was believable, in > > the end, took her down. > > > > So having eaten crow once again I started reading a bit about her, a > > precocious arts school phenom whose teachers loved her for her talent and > > hated her for her total lack of self discipline. > > > > She was just a baby when the fame monster put her on its back. A confused > > baby. A baby with substance abuse problems. Formula for disaster. > > > > Think about the crow she had to eat when she finally DID go to rehab after > > her famous song. But she did. She had people who loved her and a whole > > team of families who bet on her horse to support their families. All of > > whom just got completely screwed with the cancellation of this last tour. > > So much human tragedy surrounds a falling star. It incinerates many lives > > in its path. > > > > She was just a slip of a thing, tiny, with her improbably tall beehive and > > big, big voice. But the fury she had incited in her neruo-transmitters > > could not be managed. I don't believe it was due to lack of loving support > > around her or even her own desire to live a full life. I blame it on a > > puritanically influenced medical system whose best answer for a girl with > > her problem is to go to a 12 step program and pray that she will get > > delivered from her sin. She deserved better. > > > > You wrote an excellent post about stars you met and the lifestyle that took > > them down. So many people are involved in a big tour that they have to > > cram it into a shitty schedule. Built-in disaster for the performers. And > > for big acts these tours go on and on. How can a person give everything in > > performance when their get up and go, got up and left? Ah, a line or two, > > few bumps between sets works fantastically for a while. Until the brain > > grows too many receptor sites for the amount of neruo-transmitters you can > > generate without the lines...but on to an early morning radio show after > > falling into bed at 3 am so sniff sniff and sound check at 3 pm... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I was too late to see the YouTube link you posted (the > > > poster seems to have closed his/her account), but today > > > one of my Facebook friends posted a link that got me > > > over my aversion and forced me to listen to my first > > > Amy Winehouse song. It's the choice of song that did it. > > > This song is one of my "guilty favorites" from my own > > > teenage years. Written by Carole King and then-husband > > > Gerry Goffin for the Shirelles, I was such a lovesick > > > sap at 15 that I used to listen to it over and over. > > > > > > Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow: > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwN806lLKZQ > > > > > > The other Shirelles song I used to obsess on, this one > > > written by Burt Bacharach. To this day, I still love > > > the cheezy Farfiza organ solo and the breathy vocals > > > by Shirley: > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHvoNmBLhVI > > > > > >
