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Post by Partridge on Aug 20, 2023 22:50:09 GMT -5
CashBox, January 5, 1980 Billboard, January 5, 1980  Record World, January 12, 1980  Billboard, January 12, 1980 Billboard, January 19, 1980  Radio and Records, January 25, 1980  CashBox, January 26, 1980  Billboard, January 26, 1980  
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Post by eddiejinnj on Aug 22, 2023 19:24:14 GMT -5
Would love to have heard Linda doing backup on "Lotta Love" as well as "PID". I am not sure but I don't think she did the song much in concert. eddiejinnj
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Post by Partridge on Aug 24, 2023 1:39:02 GMT -5
Mike Chapman here is well into his third year of bad-mouthing popular artists who he thinks should "make room and open the door for" his artists-- Blondie, Nick Gilder, and Pat Benatar.
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Post by MokyWI on Aug 24, 2023 7:14:38 GMT -5
Mike Chapman here is well into his third year of bad-mouthing popular artists who he thinks should "make room and open the door for" his artists-- Blondie, Nick Gilder, and Pat Benatar. Leaves me wondering if he influenced Benatar to make snide remarks about Linda in 2-3 articles I read back in the day. Pat never got nasty but she did put Linda in a negative light by alluding Linda wasn’t a rocker like she was, and that Ronstadt was stuck in heartbreak mode. By the mid nineties Benatar sang Linda praise every time Ronstadt’s name was mentioned. I think it was considered “cool” by the late 70’s to say Linda was lame. I don’t think half of those who said it really meant it. They were just trying to appear hip or were just jealous IMO. “Heartbreaker” by Benatar was released a couple/few weeks before “How Do I Make You”, once HDIMY was released it blew right past Benatar’s “Heartbreaker” when Benatar was being praised for her bold rocker style being refreshing after the soft rock seventies were coming to an end. Then who comes along in early 1980 with a much more rocking album and single than her previous releases and it passed Benatar on the charts in its first week? LINDA RONSTADT DID. I imagine that might have stung a bit for Benatar and her camp. |
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Post by erik on Aug 24, 2023 8:40:32 GMT -5
Quote by MokiWI:
I think it was also in part a variation of what we know in today's parlance as a "Culture War". In this case, however, this culture war was between two cities, Los Angeles and New York, at the transition of the decades. L.A. was supposedly full of laid-back, rich, entitled "artistes"; New York represented the repressed youth and working-class anger that rock and roll was supposed to be about. But while both attitudes may have been true insofar as they went, they didn't tell the whole story. Mike Chapman's, and initially Pat Benatar's, attitudes were what you would kind of have had to expect when dealing with such a bicoastal war. I don't know if Chapman's attitudes ever changed as time went on, but Pat's did, especially when it came to Linda and her approach to doing things.
And it should be said that L.A. had its own punk and new wave movement that, in the case of a number of artists, merged the kind of aggressive energy with roots-oriented music, especially C&W and rockabilly, to give us a number of really energetic artists, including Dwight Yoakam, with his highly energized revival of the 1960's Bakersfield Sound, and the terribly underrated "cowpunk" band Lone Justice, whose lead singer Maria McKee has said got their feet (and Maria's herself) wet because Linda discovered them at a drab dive bar in the San Fernando Valley sometime in 1983.
To make a long story short, truth is stranger than fiction, especially when the truth being told is not the entire truth.
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Post by MokyWI on Aug 24, 2023 8:50:12 GMT -5
And Benatar was living in LA herself a year after her 79’ debut album In The Heat Of The Night. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been a Benatar fan since her debut. She was my first concert without parents along for the ride.
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