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Pat Benatar - You Better Run (Original Post) marble falls Apr 15 OP
Covered This ProfessorGAC Apr 15 #1
Could she hit her high notes? Great loud obnoxious Rock and Roll. marble falls Apr 15 #2
Pretty Much ProfessorGAC Apr 15 #3
"Don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing." Glad you got into a groove finally. marble falls Apr 15 #4

ProfessorGAC

(65,191 posts)
1. Covered This
Mon Apr 15, 2024, 05:31 PM
Apr 15

Was still in my formative stages of lead guitar, so I was copying solos note for note.beung in a band with a woman singer, we did a handful of Pat tunes.
This one was not my favorite solo to play. But, the rhythm parts were really fun.

ProfessorGAC

(65,191 posts)
3. Pretty Much
Mon Apr 15, 2024, 09:15 PM
Apr 15

Hitting them & holding them was a different matter. She had some grit in her voice, si she was a real rock singer, not a musical theater type trying to do Heart.
She was difficult to work with & became increasingly angry as, by the other bandmates request, I became more featured as a lead vocalist. But geez, I was singing the high harmonies above her voice, so it's not like I couldn't sing.
My next band had a lead singer who was also a diva (but male), who independently recorded 3 songs he & I wrote but didn't credit me. I literally wrote 95 to 100% of the music, and the chorus lyrics on one of them.
After those 2 bands in a row, I pledged never to play in another band where the players couldn't sing or the singers couldn't play.
I ended up in about a year, playing with the same 3 other guys for nearly 20 years.
Those other 2 bands lasted 2 & 3 years!
I did like playing Benatar, Heart, Rondstadt (Mad Love era), but the experience of that band wasn't great.

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