Haha, skip speaks the truth! Patrice, This is hilarious... and all too prominent where I'm from - "I sometimes get the feeling that some genres of music are still called "experimental" or "demanding" simply because they are played in front of sparse audiences (even after more than thirty years having been around)?" G skip heller wrote:
This is right and more than right. A lot of regurgitated crap on a stick with the arrognace to parade under the banner "creative music" is just as bad. Maybe even worse, because it purports to be experimental.
There's as high a perecentage of crappy "progressive" music as there is of crappy pop music. On the other hand, there's as high a percentage of worthwhile pop as worthwhile jazz (or whatever you call it). And there are more chicks at a pop gig.
skip h
What's best or worst? A young rock player trying to resurrect The Velvet or the Beatles or a young improviser that plays in late 60's non-idiomatic improv style without adding anything significantly new? Is there really a big difference? Aren't they just both exhibiting the same kind of morbid fascination for the founding fathers (Beatles/Stones on one side, Taylor/Bailey/Brotzmann/etc on the other)? At least the rocker might have more chances with girls :-).
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