Re: help w/H. Rhodes

[vickie@pilot.njin.net (Vickie Mapes)]

kstauff@APG-9.APG.ARMY.MIL (Kimberly Stauffer AMSTE-LGS 4900) writes:

>Jill writes:
>>I want some advice concerning Happy Rhodes.....My question: which one
>>would be the best to "introduce" me to her music?.....

>BUY RHODES I AND RHODES II first!.

Well, what she could do is get Rhodes I *and* Equipoise, and if she
likes both of them, she will almost certainly (99.9% probability)
like all the other ones too. It's true though, that RI and EQP
are *very* different from each other, but the progression is there
in the middle 4. (And if she doesn't like either one of them, I can
guarantee that she'll find someone who does, so she won't be stuck
with them. I have dozens of Ectophiles who will back me up on that :-))

Kim, Equipoise is quite a bit different from Warpaint, which is what
you have (right?) and Happy uses her high voice *much* more on Equipoise
than she did on Warpaint. It's also more...ummm..."lush" than Warpaint,
which can seem pretty stark at times. 

Hey, I'm totally non-objective anyway, because I dearly *love* all her
albums. (Ecto is my favorite though.)

As far as Happy's high voice sounding like Kate's, it's *not* a "rip off"
(just to head off any possible flames) but just how her vocal cords are.
She *did* learn how to sing by singing along to Kate records, mainly TKI,
but, except for a couple of songs on her early albums, she doesn't *try*
to sound "just like Kate" -- it just happens that way. After the initial
shock of recognition, her high voice will begin to sound "just like Happy."
(And besides, her low and middle range don't sound *anything* like Kate.)

In essence, Happy is Happy and Kate is Kate, and Happy is *not* trying to
be Kate. She's very much her own artist and shouldn't be compared. (not
that you were...)

Vickie

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