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A Back-Up Band Who Are All in the Same Gear

Posted over 2 years ago

Artist:
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Celine Dion
Album:

Digital 6 Pak Christmas Volume 1
Track:
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The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On an Open Fire)

As the sun sets further and further to the north and the nights get depressingly shorter and shorter, I repair to a key jazz recording. The singer has the chops, and the members of the back-up band, unlike your typical angry renegade jazz players who screech and squawk all over the place trying to find the right note and in doing so set the critics' hearts aflutter, play the right note and are, in a way that would have pleased Joseph Goebbels who once wrote that he wished that all of Germany could be in the same gear, in the same gear.

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Jonh Ingham says Are the band playing in the same gear or wearing the same gear?

Permalink posted 04/28/2007
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Spike says Doh! I never noticed the clothing angle. Should I reword it or not?

Permalink posted 04/28/2007
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Jonh Ingham says Leave it. It's a good double entrendre and in the back of my mind is a vague image of Celine and the band all wearing flowing chiffon numbers. ('cos she's singing this on a tv Xmas special.)

Permalink posted 04/29/2007
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ivylander says If I was part of this backing band, we would all have to be on the same gear in order for me to survive the experience. I can never see Celine Dion on TV - an experience that lasts as long as it takes for the remote to work its magic - without wishing SCTV was still on so that Andrea Martin could take a crack at her.

Permalink posted 04/29/2007
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Spike says That's why this post has no visuals. What if you pretend it's not her?

Permalink posted 04/29/2007
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Spike says I realize now that the trauma of past exposure can be irreversable, and that I should have warned people that they may need to wear harardous materials gear before re-exposing themselves.

Permalink posted 04/29/2007
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soulrocket groove says Same happens to me with Cilla Black after reiterated watching of Blind Date in the early 90’s... don’t ask, please.

Permalink posted 04/29/2007
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mktackabery says ok, so what did we do to deserve this?

Permalink posted 04/29/2007
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Spike says mktackabery, you (I don't know about _them_) deserve all the great music coming from unexpected sources that there is out there, because of all the great music you have turned us onto. When I think of open ears, I think of people like you.

Permalink posted 04/29/2007
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mktackabery says aww, thanks Spike.

Permalink posted 04/30/2007
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Spike says Over Christmas, while channel surfing, I happened upon a new TV performance of her singing this song, and the experience of watching close-up shots of her facial contortions put my earlier appreciation of the above recording to a real test. After due consideration, I concluded that...the ears have it. I mean that extra-musical elements such as her appearance, her reputation or the sociopolitical ramifications are all outside the music, and in the final analysis (where "analysis" means taking apart all the elements) the music comes first. What helped draw me to this cut in the first place was happening upon it on the radio long ago, liking it, calling the radio station to find out who sang it, never having heard of her before, buying her first CD and not finding anything great on it, finally downloading the song and imagining that it was my private discovery even though she ended up becoming a household name (and, in many households, a joke), and now it seems that she has probably foisted the song on the public live on TV every December since then.

Permalink posted 01/07/2008