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When you mention Pat Benatar what I think of first is seemingly every single woman in America in the early 1980s wearing her hair like Pat Benatar. >>>
>>>I don't care for her music during that early period, though you can see some promise in her.
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>>>In the mid and late 1980's you can see some definite maturity in her work. Here's a really good one that never hit the commercial radar, but was a gem:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evEto-FLqPs>>
>>Not to mention a really terrific group backing her.
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>That's very true. Geraldo (her husband) is very good, they have a good drummer, and they've brought in some horns on a few tracks. What I admire about her (for at least as much as one can know from interviews and from what has been said by others about her) is that she's extremely strong willed but very likeable.
That drummer is better than good. He keeps switching between jazz and rock grips, but I think he must be jazz trained.
