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can someone concisely explain to me Don Was' place and importance on the pop music landscape? i can seem to pin him down, if you know what i mean.

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 02:53 (twenty-two years ago)

aside from walking the dinosaur I can't really either. But I really like that "Hi Dad! I'm in JAIL!"

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 03:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Regardless of whatever he did in the eighties, Don Was explained for the nineties:

MANAGER TO ROLLING STONE APPROVED ROCK STAR: "You need an edgy producer, someone down with the street! I've got it, Don Was!"

ROLLING STONE APPROVED ROCK STAR TO MANAGER: "Er..."/"Okay, great!" (delete as appropriate)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 03:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Don Was v Bill Laswell SMACKDOWN

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 03:27 (twenty-two years ago)

jeez...Was Not Was were fantastic in their day. This Detroit/NY access of post-P-Funk leftfield disco, with at least two absolute classics, Wheel Me Out and Tell Me That I'm Dreaming. Ze Records/mutant disco, etc. Fun, silly, funky, weird, etc. Also produced Cristina's second or third.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 04:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Was (Not Was) is the worst band name ever. That is all.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

worse than Radiohead? I think not.

― jack cole (jackcole), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

not as bad as Say Hi to Your Mom

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

i talked to Don Was on the phone yesterday!!

― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

And what did he say about Don Was' place and importance on the pop music landscape?

(NB: I love W(NW) - see my long wibble on the Ze records thread)

― Jeff W (zebedee), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 16:34 (twenty-two years ago)

yah i talked to him about the Ze stuff

― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

six years pass...

This is kinda awesome and right on in many ways:
http://blogs.metrotimes.com/index.php/2010/12/don-was-on-itunes-and-the-death-of-liner-notes

― I spilled, saucer-eyed, into the Tonetta fanclub underground. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 17 December 2010 00:04 (fifteen years ago)

seven months pass...

Going to Blue Note as a senior A&R man.

― Scharlach Sometimes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 15:04 (fifteen years ago)

huh.

― I'm a nerd and nerdy things happened (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 03:54 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/record-labels/producer-don-was-to-join-blue-note-records-1005308762.story

― Scharlach Sometimes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 04:21 (fifteen years ago)

Was is currently in the studio with John Mayer, working on the singer-songwriter's fifth studio album.

Hmmmmm. This could be interesting...

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 13:47 (fifteen years ago)

Or dreadful

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 13:47 (fifteen years ago)

for just a second, I read that as "War is currently in the studio with John Mayer" and i had an oh fuck moment

― I'm a nerd and nerdy things happened (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 14:51 (fifteen years ago)

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 15:08 (fifteen years ago)

You never heard his "Spill the Wine" remake?

― Scharlach Sometimes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 16:16 (fifteen years ago)

five years pass...

don was the republican nominee for the 2016 election of the president of america

― del griffith, Wednesday, 9 November 2016 02:01 (nine years ago)

still alive.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 9 November 2016 15:43 (nine years ago)

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