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Here is a link to a very good article about Bruce & The Noisemakers that was posted on Facebook:
http://houston.culturemap.com/newsdetai … tle-noise/
Jackie
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From the article —
“This trip to Houston features Hornsby backed by his decade-old band, The Noisemakers. The ensemble’s most recent album, Levitate, is a return to the structured adult-contemporary fare Hornsby began his hit-making career with. Onstage, however, this crack group of musician’s can make any facet of Hornsby rich musical progression come alive…”
For me, the author of this admittedly enthusiastic piece hits a potential inside the park home run and flops rounding 3rd. I think that the above paragraph does all the damage: 1) The Noisemakers are older than a decade, by at least 1 year. 2) “Levitate” is “a return to adult-contemporary”? Really??? When was the last time you heard MOR that sounded like “Levitate”? And, again, 3) I HATE to be pedantic (not really, sarcasm 😆 ), but any grammatical error sets me the hell off — a “crack group of musician’s”? A “musician’s” what?
I can appreciate the effort, and Treah, I certainly, greatly appreciate you posting this (any read of BH is a good read, usually…) but the author doesn’t even mention the “Bride.” That’s just irritating. Kinda like me, sometimes.
Should the author get a few extra points for bringing up Sheena? 😆
T
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Anybody find any video of Bruce with Sheena? I did a bit of digging on Youtube last night after reading this but didn’t come up with anything…
I thought I was a pretty big Hornsby nerd, but I’d never heard the Sheena bit of his history…
Takavl wrote:From the article —“This trip to Houston features Hornsby backed by his decade-old band, The Noisemakers. The ensemble’s most recent album, Levitate, is a return to the structured adult-contemporary fare Hornsby began his hit-making career with. Onstage, however, this crack group of musician’s can make any facet of Hornsby rich musical progression come alive…”
For me, the author of this admittedly enthusiastic piece hits a potential inside the park home run and flops rounding 3rd. I think that the above paragraph does all the damage: 1) The Noisemakers are older than a decade, by at least 1 year. 2) “Levitate” is “a return to adult-contemporary”? Really??? When was the last time you heard MOR that sounded like “Levitate”? And, again, 3) I HATE to be pedantic (not really, sarcasm 😆 ), but any grammatical error sets me the hell off — a “crack group of musician’s”? A “musician’s” what?
I can appreciate the effort, and Treah, I certainly, greatly appreciate you posting this (any read of BH is a good read, usually…) but the author doesn’t even mention the “Bride.” That’s just irritating. Kinda like me, sometimes.
Should the author get a few extra points for bringing up Sheena? 😆
T
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Found a couple…Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcAJ9siM … JX&list=ML
http://www.artistdirect.com/video/sheen … lls/100700
Monica
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Yeah … “Strut” and “Sugar Walls” — how could you have missed them!?!
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Victor wrote:Yeah … “Strut” and “Sugar Walls” — how could you have missed them!?!Wow. Amazing. I don’t know how I never heard about the Easton connection prior to this!
This is again yet another example of the knowledge that flows around these parts!
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Monica —
You have made my night! I almost fell off my chair, taking the laptop with me… 😆
What I thought was the funniest about “Strut” was that you really can’t see BH until midway thru, when BAM! there he is, looking all Loverboy/mid 80s smarmy AS HELL. Hilarious.
Speaking of working for Sheena, wasn’t a story about BH meeting JT somewhere ’round these parts; something like JT showed up to audition for BH (as Sheena’s mus. dir.), BH loved JT but one of BH’s buds needed the gig as he’d just had a kid or sumthin’…
BH felt so bad about “dogging” JT he called him at next possible convenience…?BH’s got the “Strut” skillz ta pay the billz…
T
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He’s a bit more prominent in “Sugar Walls,” isn’t he?
T
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T: I love the way Bruce is soooo aware of the camera and looks right in there and *holds* that stare! 😆 Not quite ready for prime time!
I think Bruce met JT on the night Bruce and Henley performed “Innocence” at the Grammys. JT was Henley’s keyboard “tech.”All these trivia items would have made great questions for Si in Round 6 of “Last Fan Standing,” but I guess we’ve ruined that for him!
Sorry Si!
Vic
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