--- David Rastall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Because you play "that thing that Sting plays." Ho!
> Ho! Just
> kidding. Seriously, we're all "mystified" by
> Sting's success.
i'm mystified as well but more for the "baggage" that
a talented, soulful, so-called "pop" artist is obliged
to carry with him from one venue to another.
if those who berate "sting" for singing and playing
early music were to be suddenly transported back in
time to elizabethian london and hear, per chance,
someone other than dowland performing one of his
compositions in any way different from what we now -
in our time - perceive to be "pukkah" ... i wonder
what would they say say?
i'm sure - absolutely, positively sure - that hank
williams "purists" would consider anything i might do
to his compositions to be nothing less than a complete
travesty. but there are nights - even here in tuscany
- when content surpasses any and all concept of form.
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