RE: Why I'm starting to loath news paper music critics

["Hartung, Kris" <kris.hartung@hp.com>]

I'll grant you that, Travis....most reviewers usually throw you a few
tasty crumbs (although, you probably haven't read any of Michael Deed's
reviews in the Idaho Statesman, who is notorious for trashing bands once
in a while...can be a totally jack ass when he wants to be, like he
thinks he's some omnicient music critic god or something).  And I do use
those crumbs when I can - as you can see on my web site. However, some
reviewers also toss in some bird shot in that cold turkey review they
dish up, and this guy rubbed me (as in cheese grater) the wrong way
enough to do something about it. That doesn't happen very often for me.
Sometimes I think that musicians ought to gang up and give a good ass
kickin' to music critics once in a while - illustrating that what they
do is not a hard science, (unless they are making data-based claims
about pitch, duration, etc) but involves a lot of nonsensical subjective
drivel that can harm artists...or boost them, depending on how you want
to look at it.  But in this in case, thank you for pulling me out of the
abyss of being totally scorned and chapped about this Neanderthal's
comments.

Kris


-----Original Message-----
From: Travis Hartnett [mailto:travishartnett@gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 2:36 AM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: Why I'm starting to loath news paper music critics

It's rare that a review is of no use to the reviewed, and personally I'd
take two pull quotes from this review and use them in my press kit and
on gig posters (if it was a review of my music):

"...a soundscape for cosmic travel..."--Boise Weekly

and

"...an astral tapestry..."--Boise Weekly


This other album you're describing sounds really interesting, and I'm
definitely available for gratis session work on it.

TravisH

On 6/18/05, Hartung, Kris <kris.hartung@hp.com> wrote:
>  
> 
> Sorry to vent and display my artistic insecurity and defensiveness 
> with my fellow looping comrades, but I just have to share this. I 
> guess I'm feeling alone in a world of non-improvisational dominant 
> music.
> This is why I'm starting to loath news paper music critics more and 
> more. I wrote this email tonight and posted it on my website:
> 
> http://www.boisemusicians.com/boiseweekly_review.htm
> 
> I'm starting to feel like Robert Fripp with my strung out and pedantic

> verbiage. Take this as you will, but this guy pissed me off, and it 
> will probably make me never submit a CD to a news paper ever again, 
> unless it has Britney Spears singing lead on it in the nude, with 
> Paris Hilton on cello, and Pamela Anderson on maracas (in cut-time).  
> I probably over-reacted...oh well, such is the life of an 
> obsessive-compulsive.
> 
> Kris
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