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

[Per Boysen <per@boysen.se>]

I once worked as a studio musician on a Swedish album by a "locally  
major" artist. I joined a week of day and all-nighter sessions on  
mainly electric guitar and I was strictly ordered by the producer to  
"not getting to know the tunes too well" because my role was to  
create "musical ornamentation" by improvising along the vocal lines.  
All musicians recorded at once and not much were overdubbed  
afterwards. My input came out quite well and everybody was pleased  
with the playful and somewhat impressionistic guitar fills. When the  
record was released one song became a hit and the album sold gold  
right away. One of the major magazines reviewed it and said that  
"hardly any guitar was used on the album - just a little acoustic  
strumming here and there". Very strange ;-)   Maybe the guy took the  
Strat tone for a digital synth?

Another time I did a gig with a band, playing our own collectively  
written music, and we got bashed in the press for "being dressed in  
black". Not a word about the music or the performance!!!!

Stuff that like that has to happen, you just have to put up with it.  
Maybe take notes on "bad" writers and try to avoid them in the future.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
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