On Fri, 23 Aug 2002 14:03:47 -0700 skip Heller wrote:
I'm sure we will laugh in 20 years about the critics inaccurate/poor assesments of current geniuses. Some would say that said geniuses don't exist. Will they eat their words?
It can all be camouflaged under the 'not my taste anyway' banner. I listen to people who explain why they don't like Coltrane, think the Beatles are overrated, or try to make the point that funk musicians can't write proper songs. It's great to find counter examples in a discussion, but it is also great to learn something for yourself, from different lines of thinking. Regards, Remco Takken
True. As someone who is not an extreme post-Atlantic Trane fan, I know I'm not towing the party line the way I'm supposed to in some quarters. But I also know that, when you hear someone say "Coltrane was boring" or, for that matter, that funk guys can't write proper songs, it's usually because the have such a narrow view of what form is allowed to be. They want the stuff to fit in a box, and they hate anything that defies the shape of the box.
You are absolutely right, and people dissing Coleman, middle/late Coltrane, Ayler, etc (the list is long), should learn to adjust to boxes of different shape and size :-). Patrice.