Partial Review from Rolling Stone Mag WAS:: It's The Guess Who

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Here's a partial review from Rolling Stone Magazine about the

Album ...

The Guess Who

RCA 1004

Released: April 1971

Chart Peak: #12

Weeks Charted: 45

Certified Gold: 6/15/71

The Guess Who, despite their good intentions, have never seemed like

natural candidates for superstardom. With a collective personality

that could be described as lumpy at best, dressed neatly in a set of

duds at least two years out of time, and possessing few of those

flashy stories that are so desperately needed to flesh out the

bottom of the myth, they might have been put aside as yet another

example of a Canadian music scene still in the process of searching

for the roots of its home-grown musical identity ... <snip> ...

Written by Lenny Kaye in Rolling Stone, 6-24-71

, if " American Woman " (the song) was an anti-war song as you

have been led to believe, trust me when I tell you that Rolling

Stone would never have let the review or the reviewer get away

without making a big deal about that 'fact' in the first paragraph

of the review.

Since there is no mention of an anti-war song on the album, it's

easy to see that the comments by Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings

are correct when they say " American Woman " was not, and is not, an

anti-war song.

Raven

> > >

> > > Yes, that was a generalization. American women are fine. {BG}.

> I'm

> > serious about the kids though for now. I like kids. I just don't

> like

> > having to be the one who gets blamed for everything that

happens. I

> > just wonder why 'The Who' wrote that song american woman way

back

> in

> > the 60's. I remember someone on this list in effect saying that

the

> > aspie men she had met were too clingy. I just thought I'd offer

a

> > different opinion, that many different types of women in general

in

> > america are too clingy and don't listen to any advice their man

has

> to

> > say.

> >

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