Re: OT: The Police on Tour

[john floridis <jfloridis@aol.com>]

My criteria is to try and asess as best i can what the musician/ 
artist/songwriter is trying to do and try to evaluate it on that  
level........  In other words, when i see the stones in a small  
stadium in montana, i'm not going to evaluate them the same way i  
would seeing shawn colvin in an intimate listening room or bela fleck  
and the flectones in a theater.

Even beyond the location, i really try not to weigh apples against  
oranges.  What are you trying to do?  As best as i can absorb it  
intellectually and emotionally, spiritually, sexually,  
whatever....does that work?  What i hate most about music critics,  
particularly the ones in the ubiquitous and amazingly cookie cutter  
content "alternative" newspapers, is that they tend to evaluate  
artists based on what THEY think the artist SHOULD be doing, and it's  
usually punk rock.  And instrumental music.....they've got no idea  
what to do with that.  Complain about the cover art.......

objectivity is a bitch sometimes.....the world is much easier when  
you don't make that kind of effort. The effort to try and get beyond  
just "do i love this or not..."   And though all of that is kind of  
from the head, so to speak......i suppose it ultimately comes down to  
what moves you the most on any and all levels.

jf