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   "noname"  wrote in message news:nvl1q8$g1d$3@dont-email.me...   
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   > dagnabit  wrote:   
   > > "Nobody in Particular"  wrote in message   
   > > news:nvju6v$qcb$1@dont-email.me...   
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   > >> On 11/4/2016 1:59 PM, dagnabit wrote:   
   > >>>   
   > >>> one night on the radio I heard what I thought   
   > >>> was a parody of barry manilow, but it was   
   > >>> really him.   
   > >>   
   > >> When we first got cable in the early 80's, i flipped through all the   
   > >> new   
   > >> channels and found a parody of TV preachers, the PTL club with Tammy   
   > >> Faye Bakker crying with runny mascara. I was laughing because the   
   > >> parody   
   > >> was so realistic. Then, after a while, i realized it was a serious   
   > >> show,   
   > >> not a parody. Sure had me fooled.   
   > >   
   > > the barry manilow thing that I heard was a live show.   
   > > pretty sad that he couldn't even cover his own songs   
   > > without sounding like a parody of himself. I would   
   > > bet that he spends a great deal of time in the studio   
   > > trying to get his songs right.   
   > >   
   > >   
   > >   
   >   
   > So you think he plays by rote?  Tough deal if dementia sets in and he   
   > forgets his script.   
      
   for the most part, anybody that is on the national, or   
   even international, circuit, is usually a pro at what they   
   play, but not always.   
      
   I remember seeing jim stafford once as the opening act   
   for loggins and messina and I didn't expect much from   
   him based on the pop song hits that he had at the time   
   but he came out by himself and played some spanish   
   style fingerpicking guitar and was really good.   
      
   I think though, that the opposite, a well known performer   
   who can't perform well is the exception rather than the   
   rule.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)