Reply #10: David Lynch got me out of a terrible mess... [View All]

[Dirk39]

I always felt that there was something special about Orbison, something dark, something a bit too harmless, too innocent. A kind of escapism - but without a way back. My friends were just shaking their heads about my passion for Orbison. After Blue Velvet, I was rehabilitated...
I even pushed my friends to visit the town, he was born in, when we were travelling the USA. We were visiting the City Hall back then in 1989, and one woman gave me a T-Shirt as a gift from the Roy-Orbison-Day in Vernon. It's absurd somehow, but Orbison has something very german. We have a lot of traditional sailor-songs and german pop-songs, esp. in the sixties, that resemble his music.
Weren't both of his wives german?

Somehow he's resembling the early Beach Boys. If you're too naive and innocent and affirmative, you reveal more as those, who are a bit "distant", who are a bit reflective. I even love his mistakes. His voice was incredible, but his tremolo was often over the top, and if a song needed to get higher as he could, he would do it anyway. He was one of the first singers, I really admired for what they did, when they were older - it just wasn't one of those stupied comebacks. Mistery Girl is an incredible record. And I was so happy for him after what he was going through during the seventies that so many people loved him again.

Blue greetings from Germany,
Dirk