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[JazmenFlowers]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

I just think it taked a producer to take it to the public as a commercially viable product, and that is where she can IMO get into trouble.

in 95% of Stevie's career, I think this is true.

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by JazmenFlowers

in 95% of Stevie's career, I think this is true.

I listen to some of her demos and think WHAT THE HELL WAS SHE THINKING POTU (album cut) is a great example.

[strandinthewind]

OMG



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MY WORD - how HOT was Sting

[JazmenFlowers]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

OMG

the similarities have always weirded me out. didn't Stevie say Waddy came up with the riff? and we all know Stevie's usual chord structure is usually start high in minor keys and progress to lower chords and then a variation of same. there's only a finite number of chord structures in the world...

oh, and yeah, Sting was and still is hawt. tantric mutha****a.

[Sugar]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

OMG

Jaw-dropping, no?

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by Sugar

Jaw-dropping, no?

I wonder if she had heard of this song? If Waddy came up with the riff, it is possible she thought it was his alone. After all, the Police song was not a hit, etc.

I cannot remember now, but is there a piano demo or working demos of EO17 prior to the riff being made?

[Sugar]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

I cannot remember now, but is there a piano demo or working demos of EO17 prior to the riff being made?

Nothing like that that I can think of. To my mind, all the "demos" sound more like rought cuts of the final...though I may be wrong.

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by Sugar

Nothing like that that I can think of. To my mind, all the "demos" sound more like rought cuts of the final...though I may be wrong.

I thought so. But, I no longer trust my memory, which is sad as my quick wit is lessened

[David]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

I wonder if she had heard of this song? If Waddy came up with the riff, it is possible she thought it was his alone. After all, the Police song was not a hit, etc.

I don't hear any major similarity between the two. The percussion pattern sort of, but other than that, nothing to my ears.
If you take the Heart song "Barracuda" & slow the tempo by about a third, that's a lot more Edge Of Seventeenish.

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by David

I don't hear any major similarity between the two. The percussion pattern sort of, but other than that, nothing to my ears.
If you take the Heart song "Barracuda" & slow the tempo by about a third, that's a lot more Edge Of Seventeenish.

Interesting, but the riff in Barracuda has those pauses. But, I see your point, though I think the Police song does sound like E017.