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Wendy And Lisa from The Revolution Are Collaborating With Annie Lennox On New Music
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barnswallow
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I wonder if anything more has happened with this.
barnswallow
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There’s this, which I hadn’t seen. Has anyone heard this cover of ‘I Would Die 4 U’?
windycitytimes.com
Title: Wendy & Lisa talk about TRAИƧA [ Windy City Times;12.16.24]
They say this at the end of the interview:
“WCT: Aren’t you working with Annie Lennox in the future?
WM: That’s the new record we are finishing up. We have a new band called Wendy & Lisa & Annie. We are 10 songs in and it’s great!”
Wendy & Lisa talk about TRAИƧA - Windy City Times
Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman will forever be remembered by their first names after being recruited by Prince to join his legendary band the Revolution. But these out-and-proud musicians have earned their own musical bonafides with a music career spanning decades that’s resulted in five studio...
windycitytimes.com
Title: Wendy & Lisa talk about TRAИƧA [ Windy City Times;12.16.24]
They say this at the end of the interview:
“WCT: Aren’t you working with Annie Lennox in the future?
WM: That’s the new record we are finishing up. We have a new band called Wendy & Lisa & Annie. We are 10 songs in and it’s great!”
barnswallow
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Here’s the link to the article that started off this thread:
variety.com
Title: Wendy and Lisa Teaming Up With Annie Lennox for Trio Project [Variety;3.10.24]
Here are some quotes that interested me:
“That Lennox might have struck up a friendship with Wendy and Lisa, if not a group project, will come as no surprise to anyone who’s tracked their public appearances over the last year.
“All three appeared at a couple of Brandi Carlile-hosted “Joni Jams” celebrating Joni Mitchell in 2023, first at the Gorge in Washington, then in October at the Hollywood Bowl. More recently, in February, the three appeared together performing “Nothing Compares 2 U” as part of an In Memoriam segment on the Grammys, in honor of Sinead O’Connor — though Wendy and Lisa’s time as members of Prince and the Revolution also obviously resonated in the performance of a Prince-penned song.”
I also liked this quote, concerning Purple Rain:
“Not surprisingly, the subject gravitated toward Mitchell’s influence. The story was told of how, after Prince had already brought Coleman into the band, at a time when he knew Melvoin only as the keyboard player’s girlfriend, he overheard her playing guitar down a hallway and, after he walked in and asked her to play more, Melvoin played the star a snippet of Mitchell’s “Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter,” instigating a key chapter in their careers and in music history.
“Burnside played the opening riffs of “Purple Rain” and asked Melvoin about coming up with the part. The guitarist spread the fingers of her hand wide as if they were a spider’s legs, to show the unusually wide circumference of their reach, and said she had learned to play Mitchell’s famously odd tunings without the capo that almost all players would have to use… an ability or technique that allowed her to find the “Purple Rain” chords that cover bands have struggled with for the last four decades.”
I have a question about that. Is there a special tuning for Purple Rain? I guess not and instead it’s Wendy’s extra reach that made it possible for her to make the chords.
What are the chords she’s referring to?
Wendy and Lisa Teaming Up With Annie Lennox for Trio Project
Wendy and Lisa revealed that they are writing new music with Annie Lennox, asking the audience if anyone has a 'band name' for their project.
variety.com
Title: Wendy and Lisa Teaming Up With Annie Lennox for Trio Project [Variety;3.10.24]
Here are some quotes that interested me:
“That Lennox might have struck up a friendship with Wendy and Lisa, if not a group project, will come as no surprise to anyone who’s tracked their public appearances over the last year.
“All three appeared at a couple of Brandi Carlile-hosted “Joni Jams” celebrating Joni Mitchell in 2023, first at the Gorge in Washington, then in October at the Hollywood Bowl. More recently, in February, the three appeared together performing “Nothing Compares 2 U” as part of an In Memoriam segment on the Grammys, in honor of Sinead O’Connor — though Wendy and Lisa’s time as members of Prince and the Revolution also obviously resonated in the performance of a Prince-penned song.”
I also liked this quote, concerning Purple Rain:
“Not surprisingly, the subject gravitated toward Mitchell’s influence. The story was told of how, after Prince had already brought Coleman into the band, at a time when he knew Melvoin only as the keyboard player’s girlfriend, he overheard her playing guitar down a hallway and, after he walked in and asked her to play more, Melvoin played the star a snippet of Mitchell’s “Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter,” instigating a key chapter in their careers and in music history.
“Burnside played the opening riffs of “Purple Rain” and asked Melvoin about coming up with the part. The guitarist spread the fingers of her hand wide as if they were a spider’s legs, to show the unusually wide circumference of their reach, and said she had learned to play Mitchell’s famously odd tunings without the capo that almost all players would have to use… an ability or technique that allowed her to find the “Purple Rain” chords that cover bands have struggled with for the last four decades.”
I have a question about that. Is there a special tuning for Purple Rain? I guess not and instead it’s Wendy’s extra reach that made it possible for her to make the chords.
What are the chords she’s referring to?
barnswallow
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Here’s Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter, a 2024 remaster by Joni: