Re: Almost Famous
I enjoyed the movie as well, but have to ask why Cameron Crowe would chop up "Tiny Dancer" for the sake of making his bus scene work... And I'm not talking about just playing a bit of the song and then fading it out... There I was, grooving with a tune I havew always loved, and suddenly, without a shift in scene, the song unexpectedly jumps to the second verse before finishing the first... I have always detested the AM radio tendency of providing an adulterated verion of songs to capitalize on airplay... This rubbed be as much or more the wrong way since the mivie itself is about the way commercial interests exploit the artist's output. Interestingly, Crowe seemed to do this only for Elton's other tune in the movie, "Mona Lisa..."
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I enjoyed the movie as well, but have to ask why Cameron Crowe would chop up "Tiny Dancer" for the sake of making his bus scene work... And I'm not talking about just playing a bit of the song and then fading it out... There I was, grooving with a tune I havew always loved, and suddenly, without a shift in scene, the song unexpectedly jumps to the second verse before finishing the first... I have always detested the AM radio tendency of providing an adulterated verion of songs to capitalize on airplay... This rubbed be as much or more the wrong way since the mivie itself is about the way commercial interests exploit the artist's output. Interestingly, Crowe seemed to do this only for Elton's other tune in the movie, "Mona Lisa..."
