Subject: Re: the wire article (was: Re: now some pearls ... (zappa))
wlt4@mindspring.com wrote:
> >why does one become a music critic? the saying goes that those are >the people who failed at being musicians...
>
> Not true. It's the musicians who are failed critics, unable to control their own language, shape coherent arguments or get the proper tone of reverence when pronouncing "lester bangs."
>
> Still waiting for the critic groupies (don't laugh - Edmund Wilson had them), Lang
>
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good one! even though i do not agree...
patRice
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Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 08:24:12 -0800
From: "s~Z" <keith@pfmentum.com>
Subject: Re: Zappa
>>>I'm still grappling with these issues, but the point I'm trying to
make is
that there ARE issues.<<<
Well. While you all grapple, I'm going to dust off Billy the Mountain
and croon to my hearts content.
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Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 10:43:14 -0500
From: Joseph Zitt <jzitt@metatronpress.com>
Subject: Re: now some pearls of wisdom from mr. ian penman (zappa)
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 03:01:00AM -0500, Steve Smith wrote:
> Most people, judging from personal instinct as well as the "Desert Island
> Discs" lists that appear in every issue of Tower's Pulse magazine, would
> rather not be stuck on a desert island with one song when they could have a
> collection. And if I were going to be stuck on a desert island, I'd rather
> have my copies of 'Larks' Tongues in Aspic,' 'Desire Develops an Edge,' 'A
> Love Supreme,' 'The First of a Million Kisses' and Beethoven and Mahler's 9ths
> along with me rather than pretty much anything else. (Maybe I'd also long for
> 'Abbey Road' to remind me of the normal civilization I'd left behind...)
What/who is "The First of a Million Kisses"?
(One way, perhaps, in which attention paid to writers online and in
print is not as different: for Steve to mention a record that I don't
know is his desert island collection is a signal for me to check it out.)
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Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 08:54:16 -0800
From: "Fag music" <pattonsucks@37.com>
Subject: Page Hamilton & Fredrik Thordendal
Hey,
as far as I know,Helmet's not jazz (or even avant-garde),but I heard Page Hamilton's a formed jazz musician,so,my point is:is there any album/contribution/song where he shows his jazz skills?So far,all I could come up with was some of the stuff on the album ''Betty'' (by the way,they cover Dizzy Gillespie's ''Beautiful love'' on this album,in a chaotic version),and besides that,nothing else.Anyone knows anything?I heard Page was doing some jams with a country-folk dude,but dunno much about it.On another side note,does anyone here knows Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects solo album?It's very heavy,but in the middle of the album,they mix some jazz stuff on it...I know the drummer is from a fusion band called Mats/Morgan(don't remember which one he is though),and the album has a really cool experimental feel....so,check that out if you can.
