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defrogPreviously on "dEFROG On 45":
I should explain how I knew where Shaun Cassidy sits on that scale.
See, I had his first hit single.
And his second.
I can explain.
For one thing, I grew up watching The Partridge Family, which featured David Cassidy, and The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, which featured Shaun Cassidy. So inevitably – mainly via my sister, but I was also complicit in this – their music found their way into our home.
For another, c’mon, they’re both pretty catchy songs.
A lot of people tend to write off Shaun Cassidy as the Justin Bieber of his day (only relatively less successful, if only because Cassidy didn’t have the benefit of a huge Disney marketing/cross-promo machine behind him). And I suppose a case could be made. On the other hand, Cassidy stuck to tried-and-true 50s-era three-chord pop-rock at a time when it wasn’t yet quite fashionable to do so – which in a sense puts him in the same league as The Ramones.
Ha ha. Okay, not really. Still, I can appreciate Cassidy’s musical approach more than Bieber, who has never been adventurous musically.
Aaaaaaaand when she took me home,
This is dF
… I imagined some kind of RAWK measurement scale, where “hard rock” was at the top – the bad-ass, hardcore rock – and acid rock was somewhere below that, but still in the top third of the scale. (At the bottom of the scale was, of course, Shaun Cassidy.)
I should explain how I knew where Shaun Cassidy sits on that scale.
See, I had his first hit single.
And his second.
I can explain.
For one thing, I grew up watching The Partridge Family, which featured David Cassidy, and The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, which featured Shaun Cassidy. So inevitably – mainly via my sister, but I was also complicit in this – their music found their way into our home.
For another, c’mon, they’re both pretty catchy songs.
A lot of people tend to write off Shaun Cassidy as the Justin Bieber of his day (only relatively less successful, if only because Cassidy didn’t have the benefit of a huge Disney marketing/cross-promo machine behind him). And I suppose a case could be made. On the other hand, Cassidy stuck to tried-and-true 50s-era three-chord pop-rock at a time when it wasn’t yet quite fashionable to do so – which in a sense puts him in the same league as The Ramones.
Ha ha. Okay, not really. Still, I can appreciate Cassidy’s musical approach more than Bieber, who has never been adventurous musically.
Aaaaaaaand when she took me home,
This is dF
