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Music Appreciation

Paha Sapa

(421 posts) Sun Mar 20, 2022, 02:11 PM Mar 2022

Badfinger - No Matter What (live)

Nice live performance (?). Pretty close to studio perfect. Just a great song.

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Badfinger - No Matter What (live) (Original Post) Paha Sapa Mar 2022 OP

That is correct. shenmue Mar 2022 #1

Gosh, I miss Peter Ham and Badfinger. FuzzyRabbit Mar 2022 #2

Very good band, basically destroyed (two suicides) by a combination of bad/greedy management highplainsdem Mar 2022 #3

shenmue

(38,506 posts)

1. That is correct.

Reply to Paha Sapa (Original post)

Sun Mar 20, 2022, 02:19 PM

Mar 2022

FuzzyRabbit

(1,967 posts)

2. Gosh, I miss Peter Ham and Badfinger.

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Sun Mar 20, 2022, 02:21 PM

Mar 2022

highplainsdem

(48,973 posts)

3. Very good band, basically destroyed (two suicides) by a combination of bad/greedy management

Reply to Paha Sapa (Original post)

Sun Mar 20, 2022, 02:34 PM

Mar 2022

and disputes with record labels.

And their resemblance to the Beatles probably both helped and hurt them.

This is an interesting quote from Tony Visconti:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badfinger

Badfinger toured the US for three months in late 1970 and were generally well-received, although the band was already weary of persistent comparisons to the Beatles. "The thing that impressed me so much was how similar their voices were to The Beatles," Tony Visconti (producer, "Maybe Tomorrow" ) said; "I sometimes had to look over the control board down into the studio to make sure John and Paul weren't singing lead vocals ..."[48]

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