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Date Posted: 11:01:07 03/10/06 Fri
In reply to:
Kevin S.
's message, "25 year Knack FAN" on 16:58:00 03/06/06 Mon
> The Getting the Knack 25 year anniversary DVD is
>nothing
>short of phenomenal,an absoulute "must have" for any
>Knack
>fan! Not only does it cover their history with
>tremendous
>footage from the LA club days but also the actual
>Capitol
>recordings for Get the Knack as well as the stories
>behind
>the songs and their 1979 explosion world wide. The
>beauty
>of this DVD is that alot of the bands questions are
>answered
>not only the fun and happy times but the bad decisions
>and
>horrible management decisions that absoulutely
>crippled the
>band beyond the first album. A salute to Doug, Berton,
>Prescott, and Bruce for telling the history with brutal
>honesty. I can watch that DVD over and over again. I
>have
>been the essential Knack fan over the years since 1979
>when I first heard My Sharona blasting out of my
>friends
>open trunk at our Senior car wash, I had to buy Get the
>Knack after the fourth song hit the radio "Frustrated",
>which followed Good Girls Don't and Selfish. TO THIS
>DAY
>almost 26 years later I can still recall that feeling
>of
>buying Get the Knack, looking at that album and seeing
>the Capitol rainbow around the label, grabbing that
>album
>cover and studying that ultra-cool back cover, oh man
>these guys are bringing back something special. I will
>never forget hearring Let Me Out and just being blown
>away, WHOA! What an opening song,it grabbed me by the
>throat and shouted ARE YOU READY? As Number or Your
>Name
>began I remember loving how Let Me Out ended into
>Number
>or Your Name, to this day I love that cymbal intro.
>Then
>came Oh Tara, the perfect song to any boy or man that
>just can't seem to impress that certain girl enough. To
>this day Oh Tara is my favorite Knack song which I
>still
>shout out at Knack shows. Thankfully the guys have been
>playing it consistently. Well I don't want to ramble on
>but from time to time I'll send notes to different
>Knack
>or Doug fan forums, and will share some Knack memories,
>there are so damn many of them, they are certainly the
>soundtrack to my 43 years
GLAD TO HEAR THERE ARE SOME LONG TIME FANS STILL OUT THERE...YOU SOUND LIKE US...THANKS FOR YOUR DEDICATION
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