Re: KATE CHORDS

[nmehl@rm105serve.sas.upenn.edu (Nathan J. Mehl)]

In article <66401@apple.Apple.COM> colb@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU (Colin Burvill) writes:
>
>Listing through my (complete) KB album discography recently, I noticed
>that the shrill sounds of her early voice became almost 
>a (low end) whisper by her last release (this woman's work??),
>so much so that she had to import backing singers.
>
>What happened to her voice? 

Well, the shrillness dropped off partly because of aging.  She was, after all,
sixteen when TKI was recorded.  However, there's another, sadder reason why
she's lost her high end and has become addicted to reverb:

	She smokes.

Take a beautiful, well-tuned soprano voice.  Add tobacco.  Let marinate 
for several years.  Turn out onto a pan, and you have... nothing.  It's
a damn shame.

------------Nathan J. Mehl---------------(nmehl@pennsas.upenn.edu)----------
There were moments of catastrophic defeat, and moments of triumph.  The pure
killing purpose.  You find out what it means to lose.  Abject fear and ig-
nominy.  Still fighting, without the means to fight.  Deserted.  Cut off.
Still we wore the dandy uniform, like the dress uniform of a distant planet
long gone out.  Messages from Headquarters?  WHAT headquarters?  Every man
for himself--if he's got a self left.  Not many do.  -William S. Burroughs