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Title: The Knack
Post by TenThousandMotels on May 25^th, 2008 at 11:32am

What's your opinion of this band? Just out of curiosity. I always liked this song for some reason. It seems to me to be a very well crafted song ....(But what do I know? ....that's a rhetorical question so no need to answer it... LOL) Anyway just googling around I discovered that the singer's brother is the lawyer that defended Jack Kevorkian.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc3KXwd8ZWQ

Title: Re: The Knack
Post by Heart Of Stone on May 25^th, 2008 at 11:44am

I remember them only for My Sharona, I think they fell on bad times after, one of them became a addict, I saw them in a article one time called Whatever happened to........... about bands/artists that once were big but forgotten about, & what their doing now, I forget exactly what was mentioned.

Title: Re: The Knack
Post by Edith Grove on May 25^th, 2008 at 11:46am

I think these guys were trying too hard to mimic The Beatles.

Title: Re: The Knack
Post by TenThousandMotels on May 25^th, 2008 at 11:56am

Edith Grove wrote on May 25^th, 2008 at 11:46am:

I think these guys were trying too hard to mimic The Beatles.

Mnnn. I don't think so. I think probably some music critic tried to tag them with that and the shit stuck.

Title: Re: The Knack
Post by TenThousandMotels on May 25^th, 2008 at 12:16pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc3KXwd8ZWQ

Title: Re: The Knack
Post by Heart Of Stone on May 25^th, 2008 at 12:22pm

I found the magazine article I mentioned, whatever happened to.......

Title: Re: The Knack
Post by TenThousandMotels on May 25^th, 2008 at 12:33pm

"BUT I DO."

Title: Re: The Knack
Post by Holden on May 25^th, 2008 at 2:31pm

All I know is that the Dead Kennedys made fun of the Knack so I'll just stay away from them.

Title: Re: The Knack
Post by TenThousandMotels on May 25^th, 2008 at 4:49pm

Geoffrey_Fieger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Fieger

Title: Re: The Knack
Post by lotsajizz on May 25^th, 2008 at 9:25pm

Led Zeppelin+Devo=My Sharona

think about it

Title: Re: The Knack
Post by stonedinaustralia on May 26^th, 2008 at 12:01am

they all gave me the creeps - especially doug

Title: Re: The Knack
Post by texile on May 26^th, 2008 at 3:23pm

i just remember that one summer in 1979- with my sharona and you can't put a price on love (kind of beast of burden vibe)
i don't know a whole lot about them - but that was a great summer...
i was 13, pre-stones-obsessed (That happened at the end of that year), had just started playing guitar, had just gotten into rock and roll and my sharona played like every hour and for better or worse, will always be a part of that memory for me.....riding in my cousin's car and jamming to that
GREAT guitar solo break in the middle of the song......

Title: Re: The Knack
Post by Glimmer Twin on May 26^th, 2008 at 6:18pm

They've got two songs. Nothing to rave about frankly.

Title: Re: The Knack
Post by TenThousandMotels on May 27^th, 2008 at 10:47am

stonedinaustralia wrote on May 26^th, 2008 at 12:01am:

they all gave me the creeps - especially doug

He never gave me the creeps....but he is rather an odd looking duck.

Title: Re: The Knack
Post by Wild Bill on May 28^th, 2008 at 9:43am

We always used to say, "nuke the knack!"

Pop music hasn't been worth a shit since about 1972.

Title: Re: The Knack
Post by Pdog on May 28^th, 2008 at 10:36am

they're no bay city rollers!

Title: Re: The Knack
Post by texile on May 28^th, 2008 at 1:04pm

well, to all you SERIOUS 'rockers' or 'punks' -
my sharona was still a great single....

Title: Re: The Knack
Post by gimmekeef on May 28^th, 2008 at 2:56pm

My Sharona is so bad as to be laughable.Knack schmack

Title: Re: The Knack
Post by texile on May 28^th, 2008 at 7:59pm

gimmekeef wrote on May 28^th, 2008 at 2:56pm:

My Sharona is so bad as to be laughable.Knack schmack

maybe if you were 40 in 1979, but i was a kid and it has a great vibe....
or unless you are pretentious punk or rocker,
seriously - it's a good pop song - nothing more, nothing less.

Title: Re: The Knack
Post by gimmekeef on May 29^th, 2008 at 7:46am

texile wrote on May 28^th, 2008 at 7:59pm:

gimmekeef wrote on May 28^th, 2008 at 2:56pm:

My Sharona is so bad as to be laughable.Knack schmack

maybe if you were 40 in 1979, but i was a kid and it has a great vibe....
or unless you are pretentious punk or rocker,
seriously - it's a good pop song - nothing more, nothing less.

Actually I was in 30's then and had been fortunate to have lived through the great band eras of the 60's.I had also seen 3 Stones tours by then and therefore the repetitive thump of My Sharona just seemed so lame.But hey if you enjoyed it thats great.