An hour's work printing out cue cards was too much trouble....
Amy was a blues singer. At her best she took a song from Dave McCabe, added heroin withdrawal "blood itch" agony, and brought us this:
http://www.youtube.com/...
Always, always misused for profit. Here on stage at Fendi-Paris at a $1,000,000 gig, ravaged/wasted/dying from a staph infection in her face and lungs:
She was poisoned into a coma with Ketamine on August 8th 2007. Could have been an effort to kill her for her estate. Between that and the staph damage and cocaine microstrokes (not ischemic full bleeders) Amy could not remember the words to songs by 2008.
She needed cue cards. So, this year it was off to more concerts and loud, nasty abuse from the audiences.
Nobody took care of her. An hour's work printing out cue cards was too much trouble.
When I saw her first time -- here in New York -- she was drunk, pissy, not much to look at, and kinda lost up on stage.
Then she got into singing. After a minute or so she forgot about the performing side of things and let it go. I've listened to Bo Diddley, Ray Charles, Ella, Diana Damrau, Johnny Cash sitting in chairs by a lake, Cecilia Bartoli in a small concert room in London........ none of them went where this girl Amy went.
They all wanted to.
SoulIntoSound -- works in German well enough. But it has a way to go in English as the "into" isn't quite right.
She got there.
Amy will be the standard for singers. Everyone who sees art as a connection to the soul will listen to her.
"A cunt Mozart."
My tag for her. It is the highest compliment I have given anyone. She was that brilliant and because he made it to 35, there was only one Mozart.
I gave ohcanada a year of prayers for this comment:
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every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main
if a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were,
as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were
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and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls
it tolls for thee.
A progressive value.
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by ohcanada on Sun May 11, 2008 at 11:03:55 PM EDT
Thank you, again.
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If Amy had avoided brain damage and lived to 35, she could have changed the sound of the English language. Likely for the worse... but we would have been more honest for the experience.
"Fuckery" will be her major contribution.
This had been used. She made a core distinction, a new category for damnation.
How many people invent a fresh pungent curse ?
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Enjoy.
And here's Amy down on her heels:
The Joe's Pub vids on YouTube are the worst for audio/video quality. AOL are the best for singing and the Scottish concerts are damn good too. The second one had a crowd that turned on for her -- maybe her best night on stage.
The Joe's Pub ones catch her personality. Treasures.
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After St. Lucia we knew she needed cue cards. Botching concerts with booze covered up for the failed memory.
One more what if.....
Goodbye, girl.