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Post by rick on Jun 19, 2012 22:23:01 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Jun 19, 2012 22:50:45 GMT -5
I think this was one of the hundreds of high points in her career because she got to work with Aaron Nevile, the mariachis, and her own regular studio rock band, for the most important couple in the free world.
In short, she got away with everything but the kitchen sink. And if she could get away with the kitchen sink, she probably would have (LOL).
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Post by wdcats on Jun 20, 2012 16:44:34 GMT -5
Thanks Rick for this rare find. Although the voice is out of sync (obviously from a prior recording) it's always good to see Linda performing.
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Post by profstadt on Jun 20, 2012 21:09:45 GMT -5
Nice find. Its interesting to compare Linda performing PPPM here at age 50 with her earlier renditions of PPPM. Thanks so much for posting.
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Post by erik on Jun 20, 2012 22:16:23 GMT -5
I think it's a song she's always had a great love and fondness for, because it showed a side of her that her critics claim doesn't exist. It shows that Linda has a very macabre sense of humor.
After all, how many women out there now would ever do a song that is essentially a thinly veiled ode to suicide and gang rape (other than Terri Clark, who I'm not totally sure got the gist of the thing)?
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 20, 2012 22:34:43 GMT -5
This one is a little bit better:
I wonder what makes them go out of sync?
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 20, 2012 22:38:50 GMT -5
I actually like this live version better. Linda lives more dangerously here (2:09):
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Post by profstadt on Jun 21, 2012 0:04:23 GMT -5
I actually like this live version better. Linda lives more dangerously here (2:09): Me too! Kinda makes my point. |
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Post by Cornish Pirate on Jun 21, 2012 15:22:45 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2012 16:14:24 GMT -5
I really like the 1979 clip, but boy did they ever mangle her name!
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Post by rick on Jun 22, 2012 0:03:21 GMT -5
I really like the 1979 clip, but boy did they ever mangle her name! Robert, yes, boy did they ever mess up her name. Sheeesh! As for the two performances, 17 years apart, I like them both. Having seen Linda so many times, including back when "Poor Poor Pitiful Me" was current, I have to say that I noticed Linda having more stage presence/appearing more comfortable than ever in the 90s. I also think it's one thing when one is young and can wear a shoulder-less top and can boogie around the stage and belt out a song. It's quite another to be a mature woman, singing in front of the President and First Lady, and to appear as though you are enjoying singing a song that you have likely sung 1,000 times or more. Linda may have altered the lyrics to the song in the Lowell George tribute, which, from my experience, is pretty unusual for her, but I found Linda in the 1996 version to be doing her patented gestures with the two pistols for "Just like Jesse James" and the "Waring blender" motion to seem more lighthearted than I've ever seen her do those. And given how we have heard Linda seem to minimize those albums from the '70s, it was great to see her looking like she actually enjoyed singing the song. |
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Post by Cornish Pirate on Jun 22, 2012 17:59:53 GMT -5
In my links above I messed up the filename for the 1996 White House PPPM (re-synced version) so it seemed to abort the download.  Fixed, so should work now.  Oh and on the 1979 version, 'Nicholette Larson' must have upset the person making the screen captions too. ;D Alan |
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 22, 2012 21:04:21 GMT -5
Good job Alan! thanks as always.
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