| Air Supply vids | |
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Bright_Eyes 05:51 am UTC 08/21/07 |
| Youtube has at least a couple of vids of Air Supply performing their one Jim song in 2007. They are http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhHQtf8qQkc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td9eya0onEk The two vids don't sound much different from each other. I think of it as neither an exceptionally poor nor great rendition of the song. I guess I'm impressed that such an old singer still has a singing voice that close to his younger sound. Recently on this board we've had quite a few vids and bootlegs of people performing Jim's music live. As far as I'm concerned the people who sing at the OTT and TDE shows are the best singers, and most true to Jim's style, of all the people in the world who've sung Jim's work in the past three years. I still do not like them, but I respect what the TDE-people have to offer. So it kinda is a shame that all of these other acts are out touring successfully, meanwhile Dream-Engine is at the moment nothing but a low-traffic website. It's like they exist only on the internet and in the mind of Steven Rinkoff. I have a theory about the nature of Jim and Rinkoff's talent. They have a load of talent at writing songs and making recordings. They have pretty much no talent at developing an artist or project. A guy like Clive Davis, unlike Jim, just has an intuitive sense of what will work in the current, always-changing market. He can't write, but Clive's talent is no less real than that of the brilliant writer. Jim, and Steven Rinkoff, on the other hand, waste time trying to create and develop projects and artists that were unrealistic ideas from the start. They offer Westlife intros and re-mixes that are obviously not a good fit for the artist, but that indulge in Steinman's own taste. With the partial exception of some Meat Loaf work, just off the top of my head, I don't think an artist or project developed under Jim or Steve's guidance has ever become successful. They have been quite successful at feeding songs and recordings to projects and artists created and guided by others, like Polanski's Tanz, or the career of Celine Dion. I read the internet-fan-rumor lower down on the board that the male singer is fired and replaced by a girl singer. If that's the case it must mean record companies really really hate Rob Evans. Firing your founding lead-singer is something you only do when you're desperate, rejected, exhausted, quivering, shitting yourself, and inches from death. I doubt it makes a difference. Dream-Engine has "existed" for almost two years now and the tiny number of people who are supposedly it's biggest fans still are somewhat unclear as to how it would work. There's just something not-encouraging about that. I think if I were appointed Chief Strategist for TDE, I would just cancel it completely. Similarly, I'd also cancel the Bat musical, and anything else Jim Steinman has in the works. It's like when you're at the craps table, sometimes you need to quit before you lose any more. But I'm probably very different from Jim's fan-base, because of my view that Jim has already done enough work and needn't try to do anything more in his career. | |
| URL: | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhHQtf8qQkc |
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