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Old 03-26-2004, 10:23 PM
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I finally got the DVD about a week ago so I could get up to speed with the rest of you. Initially I didn't think twice about Sylvia's Mother, since it was a cover. I just don't usually get excited about covers...though on several occasions when I do finally hear them I wind up liking them.

For the most part when Bon Jovi's does covers..I have to admit I've liked them. The Animals covers on "An Evening With..." were excellent. I much prefered the Bon Jovi version of Brother Louie. Well, Sylvia's Mother, though I've never heard it before...gets added to the list. It's one of the best performances in the show.

What I haven't seen here.....is somewhat similar to the lack of any mention of who Olivia D'abo was and how many of us best remember her from The Wonder Years. The tradition of childhood association continues here.

The song is attributed to Dr. Hook. I've honestly never heard of him. But the person who wrote the song is Shel Silverstein.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who laughed his ass off at the poems found in his books like "Where The Sidewalk Ends" and "A Light In The Attic" as my elementary school teachers would read from them. He wrote the heart-wrenching "The Giving Tree," another childrens book that chronicles the relationship between a boy and a tree as the boy groes into a man and onto old age...the tree gives everything it's got to the man out of love until nothing remains but a stump.

He has done adult work...been the cartoonist for Playboy magazine, but I was unaware of that until I looked up more info. He died in 1999 of a heart attack.
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Old 03-26-2004, 10:26 PM
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dr. hook are a band. they did 'a little bit more' which was quite a big song covered by 911 (a boyband) a number of years back.

totally agree with you, though; one of the highlights of the show.
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Yeah, it's very good. And what about Jon's vocal performance in that song! Quite good, huh?
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Shel Silverstein is one of the best writers i ever known in my life. his books never was a book ONLY for CHILDREN. he told great things about life in children's words..

and sylvia's mother was amazing. both lyrics and the performance.
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Shel Silverstein is one of the best writers i ever known in my life. his books never was a book ONLY for CHILDREN. he told great things about life in children's words..

and sylvia's mother was amazing. both lyrics and the performance.
I agree. The songs was one of the highlights, but like much of the Saturday show, I really thought Friday's performance was better. But, then again, I was feeling very bad on Saturday, so maybe that's why I think Saturday wasn't as good of a show.

I think people really make mistakes in assuming that "children's books" are just for children. Good books are like good music--they cross generations.

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I haven't ever heard of Dr. Hook before TLFR. I really really like that song
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Shel Silverstein is one of the best writers i ever known in my life. his books never was a book ONLY for CHILDREN. he told great things about life in children's words..

and sylvia's mother was amazing. both lyrics and the performance.
I agree. The songs was one of the highlights, but like much of the Saturday show, I really thought Friday's performance was better. But, then again, I was feeling very bad on Saturday, so maybe that's why I think Saturday wasn't as good of a show.

I think people really make mistakes in assuming that "children's books" are just for children. Good books are like good music--they cross generations.

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I personally don't think his works are just for children. The Giving Tree is thought provoking to anyone who reads it. I only made the association for those who may remember his work from their childhood.
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First I found the version on the DVD quite strange since Jon sings the chorus one octave too low. The original is higher. But I got used to it after the second listen.
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You live in a world without Dr. Hook?!? Oh, that's sad.


Listen to "The Jungle to the Zoo", "Cooky and Lila", "Queen of the Silver Dollar", "Freakin' at the Freaker's Ball", "Carry Me, Carrie" and "The Millionaire".

Dr Hook is the shit y'all.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot! "Cover of Rolling Stone". You must have heard that song before right? Right?!?!
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like much of the Saturday show, I really thought Friday's performance was better. But, then again, I was feeling very bad on Saturday, so maybe that's why I think Saturday wasn't as good of a show.
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come on Becky Why don't you just admit that you were just so horny on Friday because of Jon in Bad Name.
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