>But I feel you on the "No tambourine, no Motown" tip... That's
>how I was able to tell that songs like "Build Me Up Buttercup"
>that on the outside sounded like Motown were really
>facsimiles.



yep.
"build me up buttercup" came on my iPod the other day,
and i was like, you can tell they were going for the motown sound on this one.

but there is no tamborine.
and the snare sounds wrong, too.



do you reallize i sat at my friends drum set,
just hitting the snare drum in diffent ways... trying to make it sound like a "motown snare."


i've never heard anybody that
made it sound quite right.
and i KNOW folks were trying.