Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!wugate!uunet!bloom-beacon!GAFFA.MIT.EDU!Love-Hounds-request From: Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: Re: To Ant in Chicago about Sarah McLachlan Message-ID: <8910041750.AA21604@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu> Date: 4 Oct 89 17:50:58 GMT References: <8910041537.AA05077@das.llnl.gov> Sender: root@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: Love-Hounds@GAFFA.MIT.EDU Organization: Columbia University Lines: 20 Approved: love-hounds@eddie.mit.edu Really-From: Gary L Dare In article <8910041537.AA05077@das.llnl.gov> Edward Suranyi wrote: > >I think I remember reading that Sarah M. was studying to be an opera >singer before turning to pop music, and that can plainly be heard in >some of the songs, which sound almost like arias or masses. Not only that, she studied classical guitar and uses it to create the swirling patterns in her music. She played a steel 12-string at the free show I saw at Toronto's Harbourfront, worn up high enough to get the right position for thumb-square-behind-the-neck while standing. Great show; the second encore was a reggae cover of Led Zeppelin's "D'Yer Maker". (-; (serious!) -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Je me souviens ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gary L. Dare "No matter where you go, > gld@cunixd.cc.columbia.EDU there you are! > gld@cunixc.BITNET -- Buckaroo Banzai