From: "Dave Coull" <davecoull-AT-uka.co.uk> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 11:12:04 +0000 Subject: Re: This Whole Abortion Debate... I wrote >> Both Goat and myself mentioned, from personal experience, >> women with "late-in-life" pregnancies being "encouraged" >> to have abortions. Fortunately, the advice was not taken. >> My son Angus is alive, well, and working at a crap job >> while trying to pursue his "real" career as a musician/songwriter. and Lorax asked >What kind of music does Angus get into? He's about my age >and I'm also a musician/songwriter and I'm always interested >in hearing about other artists. Like my father, Angus can't read music, he just sits down at the piano and starts to play. The musical talent skipped a generation - I can't play any instruments. Keri and Nadja both like my singing, but I think they are in a minority! Whereas my dad only played tunes other people had made up, Angus only plays his own stuff. When Angus was a lot younger, he used to make up these really honky-tonk, boogie numbers on the piano, which I really liked. But then he got into the Pet Shop Boys a few years back, and ever since then I reckon I can hear traces of that in a lot of the stuff which he does. Personally, I never liked the Pet Shop Boys, so I don't like stuff that sounds a bit like them. I can recognise the musical skill involved, but I'm not very keen on a lot of what Angus produces nowadays. Some of it, I like ; he produces so much stuff that the odds are I will like some of it. But I wish he would go back to his earlier honky-tonk boogie style. As for the words of his songs, there is a lot of fin-de-siecle (or fin-de-millenium) doom and gloom. Angus is actually a cheerfull sort of person, he makes everybody laugh, he's quite a comedian, but his songs aren't cheerfull. Maybe it's something to do with knowing that he was an "accident" and the medical advice was for abortion ! Dave
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