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Together with the expert riffs of Dave Navarro and, here, the now seductive, now speedy bass plucking of Flea, the meaning of "soundscape" and "integrity"--in the literal sense of fullness--becomes clear. With the exception of something like "Been Caught Stealing," with its eminently marketable dog barks and MTV mock-shock video, Jane's Addiction has always had the ability to make one forget about the asphyxiating, essentially D.O.A. verse-refrain structure of the rock song. The proof is in the aural pudding--smooth, textured, not strung together...
...good an impression of David Letterman as you'll find outside Saturday Night Live. And this one is way outside. The Dave clone is Harald Schmidt, host of a German late-night talk show that runs four days a week on SAT 1, a channel seen not only in Germany but also in several other European countries from Switzerland to Slovakia. His references to the American talk-show host are sometimes obvious and self-conscious: in one recurring bit, a postman drops off letters and Schmidt greets him, "Oh, look, the letterman." More often he simply copies Letterman's style...
...Letterman-style Top 6 list, but dropped it in 1996 when he ran out of material. Peter Jan Rens, host of a Dutch show called Late Night, which debuted in September, is more serious than Letterman (his talk strays to topics like aids and street violence) but admits that Dave was his inspiration. "Until Letterman appeared on Dutch screens, I often traveled to the U.S. to see him," he says...
Letterman was also the model for Thomas Koschwitz, a roly-poly German host whose RTL Nightshow copied Dave's bits but not his success: it was canceled in 1995 because of low ratings. Schmidt, 40, a former actor who sports steel-rimmed glasses and designer suits, has done a better job of capturing Letterman's deadpan charisma, and The Harald Schmidt Show is now seen by 1 million Germans a night, a sizable 10% share of the viewing audience. His sometimes off-color jokes and frequent ethnic put-downs have earned Schmidt the nickname "Dirty Harry." For his advocates, however...
...Burnett, who has seen Schmidt's show. Not that anyone is getting ready to call in the lawyers. "It makes us laugh," says Burnett. "It's like watching I Love Lucy in Spanish." And, of course, there's that old bit about imitation being the sincerest form of flattery. Dave may be having his problems in America, but no one is doing Jay Leno in Slovakia...