Venice in Germany

[Hans Spoor]

I found some articles about Venice in Germany, positive and negative - see the next entries

:( :o:

[Hans Spoor]

This article was in the Hamburger Morgenpost, 2 May 2003

Venice

Kati Hofacker

Welcome To The Rest Of Your Life

Diesmal, meine verehrten Leserinnen und Leser, hatte jemand endlich einmal eine völlig neue Idee: Eine kalifornische Band aus L.A., genau gesagt Venice Beach, die auch noch Venice heißt und kalifornischen West-Coast-Tralala spielt. Boah! "Welcome To The Rest Of Your Life" heißt der gänzlich unoriginelle Titel dieser LP einer gänzlich unoriginellen Band, die klingt, als ob sie direkt aus dem Tiefgefriercenter stammt, in dem man sie in den 70-ern eingemottet hat. Die Jungs heißen Kipp Lennon, Pat Lennon, Mark Lennon und Michael Lennon, aber nicht weil sie ihrem Idol John nacheifern, sondern weil sie zufälligerweise tatsächlich so heißen und alle miteinander verwandt sind, zwei Brüder und zwei verbrüderte Cousins, die jedoch nicht bei minus 30 Grad Celsius ihr erstarrtes Dasein fristeten, sondern bereits seit 1977 als Venice firmieren. Und seither eigentlich nie viel verändert haben. O.k., einer der vier Lennons hat eine neue Sonnenbrille. Faszinierend ist, dass Venice dann jedoch erst 1990 mit ihrer ersten LP kamen! Das lag auch daran, dass David Crosby, Bruce Springsteen, Dolly Parton, Brian Wilson, Stevie Nicks, Don Henley und Jeff Healey die vier Lennons einzeln oder als Satz für diverse Produktionen buchten, und sie vorher einfach wenig Zeit hatten.

Angeblich stehen David Crosby, Jackson Browne und Bruce Springsteen ganz ganz dolle auf Venice, das müssen sie ja, weil Venice schließlich so richtig klasse die Doobie Brothers, The Mamas & The Papas und die Eagles kopieren, und die waren ja schließlich auch dufte. Und wie ist ihr Sound nun wirklich? Die Venice-Lieder sind von einer derart bestechenden Schlichtheit, dass man sich hin und wieder wundert, wie sie es schaffen, die drei Minuten bis zu Ende zu rollen, ohne stehen zu bleiben. Aufgenommen wurde auf den Bahamas, hörbar, denn der Sound ist schon sehr - äh - relaxt und sonnig. Lieder mit Titeln wie "Sweet Aloha", "Sun Inside" und "Tides" sind jedoch eher selten, immerhin muss man Venice zugestehen, dass sie außer Surfen und Girls noch ein paar andere Inhalte in ihren Texten behandeln, als da wären Liebe, Freundschaften, die Medien, Traurigkeit, Einsamkeit, Zukunftsperspektiven und ein Haufen kryptischer Metaphern. Natürlich gibt es eine Menge Leute, die auf diesen Sound stehen, und das Songwriting kann man bei näherer Analyse auch als sorgfältig und raffiniert interpretieren, das sonnig-funky "Most Of Us" beweist, dass die Lennons ihrem Namen alle Ehre machen, dass sie nicht nur alte Helden sondern auch eine Menge Britzeugs hören und ihr Handwerk wirklich verdammt gut beherrschen (süß: der Patzer am Anfang, der einfach gelassen wurde). Aber wir sind an dieser Stelle gewohnt subjektiv und gemein und behaupten, dass man diese Musik vermutlich wahnsinnig gut als Seventies-Nostalgiker in Kalifornien / Venice Beach hören kann, aber wohl nur dort. Und dann auch nur bei Sonnenuntergang im Cabrio. Alter Wein in alten Bäuchen.

:mad: www.mopo.de (archiv area)

[Hans Spoor]

VENICE

Die einfühlsame Kraft des guten Songwritings



Seit über 13 Jahren sind Venice bereits ein musikalisches Thema, nur in Deutschland hatten sie bislang noch keine Chance, Fuß zu fassen. Dies wird sich aber sicherlich ändern, denn bei Venice handelt es sich um Songwriter-Kultur in Höchstform.
Mit ihrer wunderschönen Mischung aus Country-Folk-Rock haben Kipp (Voice), Mark (Voice), Michael (Voice, Guitar, E-Guitar) und Pat (Voice, Guitar, E-Guitar) bereits sieben Alben eingespielt, und ein Ende ist nicht in Sicht. Das Eigenartige ist nur, dass fast alle Bandmitglieder auf den Nachnamen Lennon hören. Wer Näheres über die Lennons erfahren möchte - voilá, hier ist das DocRock-Video-Interview.


DocWiebke: Heute ist Euer Tourstart in Deutschland, freut man sich da und ist aufgeregt?
Venice: Das kann man wohl sagen, denn Deutschland ist für uns ‚Neuland‘. Es ist immer aufregend, wenn man sich auf ein neues Publikum einstellen muss.

DocWiebke: Es gab jetzt ein Re-Release Eures Albums 'Spin Art' in Deutschland. Wie kam das zustande?
Venice: Bei dieser Tour schenkt man uns einfach ein bisschen mehr Aufmerksamkeit. Bei der ersten Veröffentlichung hat man die Platte kaum wahrgenommen, da sie hier nicht promotet wurde. Jetzt haben wir aber die Chance dazu, und deshalb beschloss die Plattenfirma, das Album erneut zu veröffentlichen.

DocWiebke: Auf dem Album befindet sich eine Coverversion von Fleetwood Macs 'Landslide'. Ich habe gelesen, ihr hättet auch mit Fleetwood Mac-Sängerin Stevie Nicks zusammengearbeitet. Hat sie Euch bei dem Song gesanglich unterstützt?
Venice: Leider ist sie nicht auf dem Album zu hören, aber einer unserer Gitaristen war mit ihr auf Tour. Wenn wir zum Beispiel in L.A. spielen, kommt sie häufig vorbei und singt mit uns.

DocWiebke: Als ich mir Euer Album angehört habe, fielen mir die Ohrwurm-Melodien besonders auf und ich dachte mir, dass wenn man einen anderen Beat darunter legt, die Songs auch gut zu den Backstreet Boys passen könnten. Würdet Ihr Eure Songs solchen Bands zur Verfügung stellen?
Venice: Sicher! Wenn irgendjemand unsere Songs aufnehmen möchte, ist das immer ein gutes Gefühl. Es bleibt ja irgendwie immer dein Song, es sind deine Worte und deine Melodien.

DocWiebke: Einige Eurer Songs wurden von Vonda Shepard für ‚Ally McBeal‘ verwendet. Wie kam es dazu?
Venice: Einer der Serien-Produzenten besaß eines unserer Alben noch bevor die Aufzeichnungen begannen. Dann flatterte irgendwann die Anfrage ins Haus und wir stimmten selbstverständlich zu.

DocWiebke: Ihr seit viel unterwegs. Wie bleibt Ihr mit Eurer Familie in Kontakt?
Venice: Teure Telefonate! Ab und an schaffen wir es mal, eine Postkarte zu schreiben, aber meistens kaufen wir uns eine Telefonkarte für das jeweilige Land. Emails sind inzwischen auch sehr nützlich.

DocWiebke: Ihr seit eine sehr optimistische und zuversichtliche Band. Eure Songs hören sich immer sehr leicht und locker an und die Texte sind voller Ideale.
Venice: Das ist mal eine sehr gute Feststellung, denn das ist für uns selbst ein Mysterium. Eigentlich handeln unsere Texte von Scheidung, Schmerz, Tod und vergangener Liebe, aber die Menschen registrieren das nicht. Sie hören die Melodie und setzen die Lyrics in eine andere Bedeutung. Häufig kommen das Publikum nach unseren Shows auf uns zu und sagt uns, wie glücklich sie jetzt seien. Wir fragen uns dann allerdings, ob es jetzt die Todesthemen waren die sie glücklich gemacht haben oder etwas anderes.






Interview - Wiebke Joester
Kamera - Oli Feist
Text - Alex Krieger
Technische Umsetzung - David Bluhm

(It looks this was video-taped, but I cannot find the file anymore, nor the date of recording)
;)

[Hans Spoor]

24 April 2003, Venice was at the HR3 radio station (Hessischer Rundfunk) in Germany.

HR3 has published a nice article at:
http://www.hr-online.de/hf/hr3/aktionen/venice/index.shtml

the webpage contains some pictures AND a MP3 file with the interview (in the 'normal' German way, so Kipp starts talking, then you get a German voice-over)
:o:
(picture hr3)

[Matt Levitz]

English translations, anyone?

[skyhigh]

I know we should be objective but the first article doesn't need a translation if it's up tot me. :mad:
How can anyone speek that badly of Venice. It offended me.
But I know it's a free country and anyone can have it's own opinion.

I'm sorry it makes you guys even more curious probably, but i'm not that good at translating so if somebody else feels the urge...go for it:biggrin:

Anja

[Matt Levitz]

Okay, online translators never get the lingo right, but they get it close enough to where you can figure the rest out.

Here's what Worldlingo.com gave me for the first one:


This time, someone had my admired readers and readers finally once a completely new idea: California volume from L.A., exactly said Venice Beach, which is called also still Venice and plays California west Coast Tralala. Boah! "Welcome ton of The remainder of OF Your Life" is called the completely unoriginelle title of this LP completely unoriginellen volume, which sounds, as if she originates directly from the low freezing center, in which one her into the 70-ern mothballed. The young hot tilt Lennon, Pat Lennon, Mark of Lennon and Michael Lennon, but not because it her Idol John nacheifern, but because they are related with one another coincidentally actually so hot and all, two brothers and two fraternized cousins, who did not fristeten however with minus 30 degrees Celsius their rigid existence, but already firmieren since 1977 as Venice. And since that time actually never much changed. O.k., one of the four Lennons has new sun glasses. It is fascinating that Venice then however only 1990 with their first LP came! That was also because of the fact that David Crosby, Bruce Springsteen, Dolly Parton, Brian Wilson, Stevie Nicks, Don Henley and Jeff Healey booked the four Lennons individually or as sentence for various productions, and they before simply little time had.

Allegedly David Crosby, Jackson Browne and Bruce Springsteen stands completely completely for dolle on Venice, that must her, because Venice class the Doobie Brothers, The mummies & The dad and the Eagles to copy finally so correctly, and who were finally also smell. And how is their sound now real? The Venice songs are of an in such a manner captivating schlichtheit that one is surprised now and then, as them it create, the three minutes up to end to roll, without stand to remain. One took up on the Bahamas, audibly, because the sound is already very - aeh - relaxt and sunny. Songs with titles like "Sweet Aloha", "Sun Inside" and "Tides" are however must one Venice grant that they still treat except Surfen and Girls a few other contents in their texts, as there would rather rarely, nevertheless be love, friendships, the media, sadness, isolation, future prospects and a heap of kryptischer metaphors. Naturally there is a quantity of people, which on this sound, and which Songwriting can do one with closer analysis also than careful and it refines to interpret which proves sunny funky "Most OF US" that the Lennons makes all honour for its name that they hear not only old heroes but also a quantity of Britzeugs and really condemns their handicraft well to control (sweetly: the Patzer at the beginning, that was left simple). But are used subjective we here and in common and state that one can hear this music probably madly well as Seventies Nostalgiker in California/Venice Beach, but probably only there. And then also only with sunset in the Cabrio. Old wine in old bellies.

[Matt Levitz]

And the second:

VENICE

The einfuehlsame strength of the good Songwritings

For over 13 years Venice are already a musical topic, only in Germany had them so far still no chance to gain a foothold. This will however surely change, because with Venice it concerns Songwriter culture in maximum form.

With its beautiful mixture from Country Folk skirt tilt (Voice), Mark (Voice), Michael (Voice, Guitar, e-Guitar) and Pat (Voice, Guitar, e-Guitar) have already seven albums brought in, and an end is not in view. The strange is only that nearly all volume members hear on the surname Lennon. Who would like to experience details over the Lennons - voilá, here is the DocRock video interview.


DocWiebke: Today is your route start in Germany, is pleased one there and is excited? Venice: One can probably say that, because Germany is for us ' new ground '. It is always exciting, if one must adjust oneself to a new public.

DocWiebke: There was now RH release of your album ' spin kind ' in Germany. How came off? Venice: With this route one gives us simply little more attention. During the first publication one hardly noticed the plate, since she was not promotet here. Now we have however the chance in addition, and therefore the disk company decided to publish the album again.

DocWiebke: On the album is a Coverversion of Fleetwood Macs ' land eyelid '. I read, you also with Fleetwood Mac singer Stevie Nicks would have co-operated. Did it support you with the Song gesanglich? Venice: Unfortunately she is not to be heard on the album, but one our Gitaristen was with it on route. If we for example in L.A. play, go past they frequently and sing with us.

DocWiebke: When I belonged myself your album, the ear worm melodies were noticeable to me particularly and I imagined that if one puts another Beat under it, which could fit Songs also well the Backstreet Boys. Your Songs of such volume to it at the disposal would put? Venice: Surely! If somebody liked to take up our Songs, that is always a good feeling. Your Song, it remains is somehow always your words and your melodies.

DocWiebke: Some your Songs by Vonda Shepard for ' Ally McBeal ' were used. How was it added? Venice: One of the series producers possessed one of our albums before the recordings began. Then sometime the inquiry in the house and we fluttered agreed naturally.

DocWiebke: You since much on the way. How do you remain with your family in contact? Venice: Expensive telephone calls! Now and then we create it times to write a postcard but we mostly buy a calling card for the respective country. Enamels are in the meantime also very useful.

DocWiebke: You since very optimistic and confident volume. Your Songs sounds itself always very easily and loosely and the texts is full ideals.
Venice: That is times a very good statement, because that is for us a Mysterium. Actually our texts act of divorce, pain, death and past love, but humans do not register that. They hear the melody set and the Lyrics into another meaning. Frequently come the public after our Shows to us and says us, how lucky now they are. We ask ourselves then however whether now the death topics were those it made lucky or something else.

[Matt Levitz]

So in Holland, Kipp is a chicken, but in Germany, he's a "young hot tilt" and a "country folk skirt tilt." What the hell does that mean? Is he a pinball machine and someone's been punching him in the side? In an oven? Wearing a skirt? Singing about a "Land Eyelid?"

Oh, I can't wait to see the gifts the German fans give him.....

[Matt Levitz]

rotfl rotfl rotfl

I just can't stop laughing at the idea of Kipp in an interview actually saying the exact words, "Our texts act of divorce, pain, death and past love, but humans do not register that."

Well, that explains why their music smells like the Doobie Brothers, The Mummies & The Dad and the Eagles. Because they're ALIENS!!!

[Hans Spoor]

I'm sorry I didn't put down a translation - but with the Worldlingo.com you come close .... the first article was not very friendly - I have no idea why someone writes like this about any group, it also offended me - I found it about a month ago and kept it aside for awhile.
Anyway, this was the only negative article I found in Germany (on the web) - the others are positive upto very positive.

[astrid]

I know the feeling Matt!! rotfl rotfl rotfl
I found a negative article in a Dutch magazine once... I tore it up!! ;) No one can say bad things about Venice to me!! ;)
cya
Astrid

[astrid]

I could translate the texts if you like... I did four years of German in secondary school, and I love to translate!!
I'll see what I can do.
cya
Astrid

[lia kinnet-abts]

tuttuttuttutut.....

translation of =" Die Jungs heissen Kipp ...." = means = The names of the boys are Kipp ....

and = "mit ihrer wundershönen Mishung aus Country-Folk-Rock haben Kipp ..." = means= with their wonderful mixture of Country-Folk-Rock , the Lennons have already seven albums ....

hahaha = "heissen" = "are named" , but also "very hot" - "Rock" in German means "a skirt" for women, or "a kilt" = scottish skirt for men ...

I agree with Anja = and I just can complete by saying =
USE THE HAMBURGER MORGENPOST FOR WRAPPING OVERDATED SMELLY HAMBURGERS (=hot dogs) AND VEGETABLES REMAINS !:mad:

The second article was OK !:up: (but I haven't read the english translation yet) got to go ....

:love: love, lia

[Hans Spoor]

This article was in Der Welt, 15 March 2003

Konzert-Veranstalter von "Venice" total begeistert

von Doris Banuscher

Hochstimmung im Curiohaus: Mehr als 300 Gäste kamen auf Einladung des Musik-Labels "105 music" zum Showcase der Band "Venice" (die vier Jungs kommen aus Venice Beach, L.A.). Die Zuhörer tauten schnell auf, waren begeistert. Und die Band war so angetan von der Stimmung, dass sie gleich eineinhalb Stunden spielte. Bis halb zwei Uhr nachts plauderten die Gäste mit den Musikern, die Deutschland erobern wollen (im April kommt das erste deutsche Album "welcome to the rest of your life" auf den Markt). Besonders neugierig auf die Vier waren Konzert-Veranstalter Kars-ten Jahnke, Prof. Hans-Werner Funke und Jacky Jedicky (die rechte Hand von Konzert-Mogul Marek Liebermann),
der extra aus Frankfurt kam. Begeisterung - sofort liefen die Angebote für Konzerte bei "105 music"-Gründer Heinz Canibol ein. Canibol ist seit 1977 im Business, war bei CBS (später Sony-Music) in Frankfurt und Wien. In Hamburg baute er 1981 MCA auf (das Universal-Music wurde), zuletzt war er Chef von EMI in Köln. Doch Canibol zog es nach Hamburg, die Stadt, die er so liebt. Also gründete er Anfang des Jahres mit Roman Rybnikar "105 music". Noch gesehen: Peter Urban vom NDR, der das Konzert mitschneiden ließ, Eckhart Gundel, Cruiser Records.
Mehr unter: www.venicecentral.com

© WELT.de 1995 - 2003

Vollständige Url des Artikels: http://www.welt.de/data/2003/03/15/52752.html

High tendency in the Curiohaus: More than 300 guests came on invitation of the music label "105 music" to the Showcase of the group "Venice" (the four members come from Venice Beach, L.A.). The listeners thawed out fast, were inspired. And the volume was so done by the tendency that it played equivalent one and a half hours. Until 1:30 at night chatted the guests with the musicians, who want to conquer Germany (in April the first German album "welcome to the rest of your life" on the market). Among the curious guests were concert organizer Kars-ten Jahnke, Prof. Hans-Werner Funke and Jacky Jedicky (the right hand of concert-Mogul Marek Liebermann), who came special for this concert over from Frankfurt.
Enthusiasm - immediately the offers for concerts ran in with "105 music" founder Heinz Canibol. Canibol is since 1977 in the Business, was with CBS (now Sony Music) in Frankfurt and Vienna. In Hamburg he built 1981 MCA on (now Universal Music), and was manager of EMI in Cologne. But Canibol went back to Hamburg, the city, which he loves so much. With Roman Rybnikar he started ealy this year "105 music". Also seen: Peter Urban of NDR, who recorded the concert, and Eckhart Gundel of Cruiser Records.

(online translators never get the lingo right .... they also translate the names! Herr Liebermann was sudenly Mr. dear man)

[sunchild]

please for translations mail me the article.. whether Dutch or German and I'll provide a translation..

[astrid]

Here's what I made of the first two texts.


Text 1:
Venice

Kati Hofacker

Welcome To The Rest Of Your Life

This time, my dear readers, someone has finally had a totally new idea: a Californian band from LA, from Venice Beach to be exact, who also call themselves Venice and who play West-Coast-Tralala. Boah! “ Welcome To The Rest Of Your Life” is the very unoriginal album title of a very unoriginal band, who sound like someone put them in the deep freeze in the 70’s and decided to defrost them now. The boys are calles Kipp Lennon, Pat Lennon, Mark Lennon and Michael Lennon, not because they want to copy their idol John, but because they actually have that name and because they are all family, two brothers and two cousins who are also brothers, who have been working together under the name Venice since 1977. And not much has changed since then. Okay, one of the four Lennons has bought a new pair of sunglasses. What’s truly fascinating, is that Venice didn’t bring out any records until 1990! The reason for that was also that David Crosby, Bruce Springsteen, Dolly Parton, Brian Wilson, Stevie Nicks, Don Henley and Jeff Healy kept booking the four Lennons together or seperately for several productions, so that they didn’t have a lot of time.

Apparently David Crosby, Jackson Browne and Bruce Springsteen all love Venice. They have to, because Venice keep copying The Doobie Brothers, The Mama’s & The Papas and the Eagles. And what is the typical Venice sound anyway? The Venice songs are of such simplicity, the you keep wondering how they manage to keep a song going for three minutes without standing still. The cd was recorded in the Bahamas, which can be heard, because the sound is very - erm- relaxed and sunny. Songs with titles like ‘ Sweet Aloha’ , ‘Sun Inside’ and ‘Tides’ however are rare, because Venice have other subjects to sing about than surfing and girls, like love, friendship, the media, sadness, loneliness, future perspectives and a bunch of cryptical metaphores. Of course lots of people like this sound, and after further analysis the songwriting can be called careful and refined. The funky ‘Most of Us’ proves that the Lennons keep their name in honor and that they control their hand work very well (but there’s a mistake in the beginning of the song that they didn’t bother to take out). But, as usual, we are being subjective and mean, and we think that people in California who like Seventies nostalgia listen to this kind of music all the time. But only there. And only at sundown in a convertible. Old wine in old stomachs.


and text 2:

VENICE

The compassionate power of good songwriting


Since more than 13 years, Venice have already been a musical fact, but in Germany they didn’t get a chance until now. The tides may have changed now, because with Venice it’s all about a songwriter-culture of the highest level. With their beautiful mixture of country, folk and rock, Kipp (Vocals), Mark (Vocals), Michael (Vocals, guitar) and Pat (Vocals, guitar) have made seven albums already, and the end is not in sight. The curious thing, though, is that almost all of the band members have Lennon as their last name. For anyone who’s interested – here’s the DocRock-video-interview.

DocWiebke: Today you will start touring Germany, are you excited?
Venice: You could say that, because Germany is unchartered territory for us. It’s always exciting when you have to adjust yourself to a new audience.

DocWiebke: In Germany, your album ‘Spin Art’ has been re-released. How did that happen?
Venice: Because of this tour people are simply paying a little more attention to us. When the cd came out the first time around, nobody noticed it, because it wasn’t promoted here. Now we have a second chance to do just that, and that’s why the record company decided to re-release the album.

DocWiebke: On the album is a cover version of Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Landslide’ . I’ve read that you’ve also worked together with Fleetwood Mac singer Stevie Nicks. Did she sing the song together with you?
Venice: Unfortunately, you can’t hear her on the album, but one of our guitar players has toured with her. And when, for example, we have a gig in LA, she comes by very often and sings with us.

DocWiebke: When I listened to your album for the first time, I especially noticed the wonderful melodies and I thought that if you put a beat under them, the songs might fit the Backstreet Boys very well too. Would you make your songs available for bands like that?
Venice: Sure we would! It would always feel good if someone else would record our songs, because it will always be your song no matter what, and they would be singing your words and your melody.

DocWiebke: Some of your songs have been used by Vonda Shepard for ‘Ally McBeal’. How did that happen?
Venice: One of the producers of the series had one of our albums even before they started filming. Then they asked if they could use our songs and we agreed.

DocWiebke: You are on the road a lot. How do you keep in touch with your families?
Venice: Expensive phone calls! Every now and then we manage to write a post card, but most of the time we just buy a telephone card for the country we’re in. E-mails are also very useful.

DocWiebke: You are a very optimistic band. Your songs are very easy to listen to and are filled with ideals.
Venice: That’s a very good conclusion, because to us it’s a mystery. Actually, our songs are about seperation, pain, death and lost love, but people don’t see them the way we do. They hear the melody and give the lyrics a different meaning. People from the audience often come to us after the shows and tell us how happy they are. We alway wonder if they’re happy about the death theme, or about something else.



Please feel free to correct me if I made any mistakes - I'm only human ;)

cya
Astrid


PS. Lia and Anja - I *totally* agree with what you said about the first article!!

[sunchild]

This article was in the Hamburger Morgenpost, 2 May 2003

Venice

Kati Hofacker

Welcome To The Rest Of Your Life

This time, my honered readers, someone finally came up with a completely new idea : A Californian Band from L.A., from Venice Beach to be exact, that is also called Venice and plays Californian West-Coast-Tralala. Boah! "Welcome To The Rest Of Your Life" is the completely unoriginal title of this LP by a completely unoriginal Band, that sounds, as if it originated directly from the deep-freeze section, where it was muffled away somewhere back in the 70's. The boys names are Kipp Lennon, Pat Lennon, Mark Lennon and Michael Lennon, not because they want to take after their idol John, but because they are actually accidentally called that and are all related to each other, two brothers and two cousins who are brothers too, who did not keep their fossiled existance frozen at minus 30 degrees Celsius, but really go by the name Venice since 1977. And really have not ever changed much since then. O.k., one of the four Lennons has new sunglasses. What's fascinating, is that Venice only brought out their first album in 1990! Partly because David Crosby, Bruce Springsteen, Dolly Parton, Brian Wilson, Stevie Nicks, Don Henley and Jeff Healey booked the four Lennons separately or as a set for different productions, and until then they simply did not have much time.

Apparently David Crosby, Jackson Browne and Bruce Springsteen are very very fond of Venice, which they have to, because Venice after all copy the same class/style as Doobie Brothers, The Mamas & The Papas and the Eagles , and they all were super too. And what is their sound really? The Venice-songs are of such a superb simplicity , that one wonders now and again, how they do it - to roll through those three minutes to the end, without falling over. One can hear the album was recorded on the Bahamas, cuz' the Sound is really - eehm - relaxed and sunny (the only positive word so far.. :biggrin: ). Songs with titles like "Sweet Aloha", "Sun Inside" and "Tides" are rare nevertheless, and one has to allow Venice, that apart from surfing and girls they also use different contents for their lyrics, such as love, friendships, the media, sadness, lonelyness, future perspectives and a lot of cryptic metaphores. Of course there are many people, who go for this sound, and the songwriting could after a closer analysis also be interpreted as careful and refined, which the sunny-funky "Most Of Us" proves, that the Lennons give honor to their name, that they don't just listen to old heroes but also to a lot of the Britshite (that's what it says.. sorry.. I think they mean Britpop) and really know their craft damned well (cute: the big mouth at the start of the show, who was simply ignored). But over here we are used to saying subjectively and crudely , that it is probably awesome to listen to this music as a Seventies-nostalgia in California / Venice Beach, but really only over there. And it would take a sunset and a convertible (to get in the right mood). It's water under the bridge (old news).

[sunchild]

hahahahaha!

Cool! Now we can compare!!!:biggrin: :o: :p:

Thanks Astrid! I was working on mine when you were posting..

[frits tuijn]

Ich war auch in Hamburg, aber die Wein war nicht so slecht. Vielleicht hatte die Kati falsche Wein getrunken.

Ubersetzung/translation

I was in Hamburg too, but the whine was not so bad. Probably Kati has been drinking the wrong whine.

Frits

[lia kinnet-abts]

and I think Kati has been drinking loooong before Venice started the show, and was almost out of order when she wrote this = "West-Coast-Tralala" - "Boah !" = proves that she was already in higher atmospheres not caused by the music. It is also very impolite to belch after you guzzled .
That says for itself !

It is a typical criticism from someone who knows nothing about any kind of music except maybe techno.
But hopely it has it's profits. When I read such comments about who or whatever, I become very curious about the REAL stuff ! and EACH time I know that I was right = such articles say more about the "author" than about the person(s) concerned.
= pitiful - arrogant - very narrow-minded - they try to hide their own frustrations by insulting REAL artists/authors in a way they think makes people laugh when in fact they are insulting themselves.
Besides , it's not a critical comment , it's complete B*L*S**T !
Ignore it ! Delete it ! Forget it !

The radio-interview was okidokie :up:

:love: love , lia
jeeeeeses, now I need one ! :biggrin: cheers !