January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

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|6/28/05 01:30:59 AM|Kent|Murrieta, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|But Gerry do
you do Gerry S, yourself? One thing I never do is imitate other singers. I
actually wrote an Elvis Presley parody but if I ever do a demo of the song, I
have to hire a guy who imitates Elvis to do the part. So my secret in a way is
I can't do imitations. People get Kent Appel, whether they like it or not but I
am also very proud I am unique that I am not just another copy cat.These
days, in whatever styles of music there are, everyone sounds exactly the same.
Pop singers all sound like imitations of soul singers like Stevie Wonder or
Aretha Franklin, or whoever it is they all imitate.Country singers all
sound like Clint Black or Sheenia Twain, or whoever it is they all imitate.
Rock singers all sound like whatever artist they all imitate too.
It gets a little boring at times that not that many original people are
around anymore.Funny, someone like Elvis or Frank Sinatra, if they came
around today would not make it as when someone asked them, "what artist do you
do?" They would say, they do themselves. Oh yeah, there are thousands
of old style crooners who all sound like Sinatra and of course there are
hundreds of millons Elvis wannabes out there also.I still say my version
of "New York, New York" is better than any copy cat's version because I am not
Frank and I don't try to be.I have been told by several drunks over the
years that I do the song bettter than Sinatra himself. Now I don't claim that
as Frank was the man but the drunks didn't know each other at all and they
independently said it, no lie.|
|6/28/05 03:21:00 AM|Massimo |Roma||4||||10|I think that Ali's most deleterio
fight was the one against Earnie Shavers. He should never have fought him. He
went 15 rounds with the hardest puncher ever and was hurt badly at least 6
times!That hardly helped his health. And this happened after the LIFE AND
DEATH fight in Manilla and another war with Norton!!!! Although I think that
Ali' was probably the greatest, I don't give Ali' too much credit for beating
Leon Spinks, as that one was a pretty boring fight and one of the worst (or
worse) versions of Ali'. We saw only the shadow of Ali' in that
fight!Noam-To say that Carl Von Linde was the smartest guy who
ever lived is stretching it a little bit I think, but yet (or still) he was a
great inventor and someone who deserves an immortal place in the History of
Technology. He was a great guy! He gave mankind a HUGE present and, I'm sure,
saved a lot of human lives all around the wordl. Think, for istance, of all the
old and ill people who can enjoy air conditioning in hospitals! I'm not sure I
understand what you meant with "heat wave" (is that Slang ?), but if you were
referring to the literary meaning of the expression "heat wave" yeah, it's true,
it's hot like hell in Roma in these days!|
|6/28/05 11:55:12 AM|Kent|Murrieta, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Add on to my
last post to Gerry: Freddie Mercury, Steve Perry, Robert Plant, etc, more
examples from a past era when singers had their own indivdual
styles.Gerry, you must have a high voice. I couldn't do songs by those
artists unless I took the songs down to lower keys. I can hit the notes in the
original keys but I don't have the gruffness that those songs need to be true to
the style. Now I don't say there is anything wrong with doing the same style as
other artists, it is just that I believe a singer should put his own label, make
the song his own, when he or she covers material.Yes we are in a stale
period right now where everything is copied from something else. Even the songs
themselves in the past few years are just pale imitations of original
works.There was actually a hit, and I don't know the artist or the name
of the song, that had sampled all the way through, the intro to a Gladys Knight
and the Pips 1970s hit. The Group Sugar-ray also ripped off part of their
melody hook for their biggest hit from a song, also from the early 1970s, that
was called Suavacito by a group called Malo. The trend is getting worse
as we hear dozens if not hundreds of supposeded hip hop hits on top of samples