Re: projekt2 review sat.iman huntington L.I.New York

[Jason Secord <innerspace@mediaone.net>]

good werk
****em all

KRosser414 wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 98-05-12 13:35:01 EDT, you write:
> 
>  >> But there was no getting away  from the
>  >> feeling that somewhere, under all the blur and noise, they were 
>taking
>  >> more of an interest in the technological possibilities of their
>  >> instruments than in actually thinking through the problems of making
>  > >music demographically generous.
>  >>           -- PETER WATROUS
> 
> < Not being a fan of Fripp's music in general . . .
> 
> < Let me just say that this reviewer sounds a like a total horse's ass.
> 
> < Next time the paper should send someone who isn't predisposed to 
>dislike
>  <this sort of music.
> 
> Peter Watrous aroused a good deal of ire among many when he wrote an 
>article
> in the NY Times a few years back which started as a review (scathingly
> negative) of the latest electric Wayne Shorter record, "High Life", but 
>wasn't
> content to stop there.  In essence, he went on to blame Miles Davis' 
>post-In A
> Silent Way direction for not only ruining jazz, but for corrupting a
> generation of musicians (Herbie, Wayne, McLaughlin, Zawinul etc) that 
>spread
> out and ruined music on a level Miles couldn't do himself.
> 
> On McLaughlin's cover story in Guitar Player a few years back, the 
>interviewer
> read him the article.  McLaughlin at first became noticeably angry but 
>then
> fired back what I thought was a pretty level-headed, common-sense 
>comeback.  I
> belonged to a Miles Davis internet mailing list which Watrous joined.  I
> copied the pertinent parts of the McLaughlin interview and sent them to 
>the
> list (without any editorializing on my part) and invited Watrous to post 
>his
> reactions and/or arguments to McLaughlin's rebuttal.  Not only did he not
> respond, I believe he left the list.
> 
> Ken R
>