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From: rags 
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Subject: Re: Dave Clark Five
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appeyroad{at}yahoo.com wrote in
news:6f463fa9-d62d-4b7c-9e44-6928883635b5{at}v3g2000hsc.googlegroups.com: 

> Not too much interest in this at the old RMB, but the DC5 induction
> into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame tonight is a milestone for me.

I thought your original posts got a fair amount of attention, really.
It's not as if this is rec.music.dave.clark.five! 

> No, they weren't the Beatles, but they charted better than most during
> the early days of the British Invasion and they gave me and my junior
> high band mates a lot of tunes to cover at sock hops (remember those?)
> and such.

I must confess I was always very ambivalent about the DC5 - I can 
remember when a local DJ tried to make a "contest" (really just a poll) 
between the Beatles and the DC5, and honestly, it just struck me as 
really lame.  The two bands never even seemed strictly comparable - their 
styles were very different (and I never was a big fan of the DC5, so they 
just didn't seem to be in the same league).  But I did hear them perform 
at one of our smaller arenas (the same small arena the Stones used for 
their first Montreal visit - not nearly as big as the Forum where the 
Beatles played!).
 
> But at last, and alas without Mike Smith, they will get their due
> tonight.

Their fans should be happy ...
 
> Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated at this revered outpost
> called RMBM....

PS: a while ago, when the subject of the DC5 came up here (long before 
the announcement of their getting into the hall of fame), I "looked up" 
(euphemism!) their albums, and giving them a listen again (first time for 
many decades!), I wasn't won over any more than I was all those years 
ago.  Sure, they had some catchy hits, but I still don't find it music I 
want to listen to often.  It somehow doesn't draw me in, the way the 
Beatles early stuff did.  Just MHO, of course - many kids back then 
disagreed - but at least a consistent HO(!).

-- 
-= rags =-

rags _at_ math _dot_ mcgill _dot_ ca

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