One of the founding members of Fairport Convention and truely and amazing voice and songwriter she was lost to the world at a young age. I was also a great fan of Grace who is certainly influential in rock music but could not hold a candle vocally to Sandy in my opinion.
Sandy Denny was the queen of British folk voices. Alas, all that most Americans have heard is her singing on Led Zeppelin's "Battle of Evermore". On top of that, she could party with John Bonham and Keith Moon (which is probably why she's dead now).
I suspect this poll reflects name recognition, not talent. Sandy Denny had more talent in her pinkie than Grace Slick has ever shown.
I stayed out of this one, because quite frankly I was kind of busy, but I'd echo some of the things Eric has said in response.
She was also a brilliant, caustic witty songwriter and some of her songs on Volunteers, etc. are among the most wicked fun in rock. ("Hey Fredrick", "Law Man", "Lather", "Milk Train", "Fast Freddie") Even into the early part of JS (not after they dropped the J) she had some great cuts, but never the big singles, which were usually shlockey ballads that Marty Balin wrote/sang.
I will admit to not being deeply familiar w/ SD, but I suspect some of you might be a bit superficial about your knowledge of GS. Then again, I admit the bias: Grace was one of my first rock crushes.
I also don't recall Sandy Denny ever plotting to spike Nixon's tea with LSD (she got to tag along w/ a friend to the white house and they were planning it) forget how that ended up getting stopped - think someone spotted her name on the list and said, um, no...
Of course I know Eric would probably be just as happy slogging in on the SD side of the argument (been there done that) ;-)
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Sandy Denny
Date: 2009-04-24 05:04 pm (UTC)Re: Sandy Denny
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Date: 2009-04-24 10:49 pm (UTC)Sandy Denny was the queen of British folk voices. Alas, all that most Americans have heard is her singing on Led Zeppelin's "Battle of Evermore". On top of that, she could party with John Bonham and Keith Moon (which is probably why she's dead now).
I suspect this poll reflects name recognition, not talent. Sandy Denny had more talent in her pinkie than Grace Slick has ever shown.
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Date: 2009-04-29 04:52 am (UTC)She was also a brilliant, caustic witty songwriter and some of her songs on Volunteers, etc. are among the most wicked fun in rock. ("Hey Fredrick", "Law Man", "Lather", "Milk Train", "Fast Freddie") Even into the early part of JS (not after they dropped the J) she had some great cuts, but never the big singles, which were usually shlockey ballads that Marty Balin wrote/sang.
I will admit to not being deeply familiar w/ SD, but I suspect some of you might be a bit superficial about your knowledge of GS. Then again, I admit the bias: Grace was one of my first rock crushes.
I also don't recall Sandy Denny ever plotting to spike Nixon's tea with LSD (she got to tag along w/ a friend to the white house and they were planning it) forget how that ended up getting stopped - think someone spotted her name on the list and said, um, no...
Of course I know Eric would probably be just as happy slogging in on the SD side of the argument (been there done that) ;-)
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