on 12/11/03 9:56 AM, Ken Waxman at mingusaum@yahoo.ca wrote:
An artist does as he or she pleases. Then it's up to us as informed consumers to decide whether we want to "buy in" or not to his or her vision.
Ken Waxman
I learned a long time ago not to consider myself too "informed" --- no matter how many albums I bought or interviews I read by an artist -- a long time ago. I learned that when an artist I admire starts making records I don't like, it's probably because what he feels compelled anough to record and put out is not the same thing as what I want to hear. The fact that I want to hear Joey Baron and Kermit Driscoll doesn;t make the recent crop of Frisell records bad. His adgenda as a player is different from mine as a listener. IT DOES NOT GIVE ME THE RIGHT TO TELL HIM WHAT HE SHOULD MAKE, WITH WHOM, NOR WHAT TO COMPOSE. As long as he's making what he makes with every bit of skill he has, I wish him well. I cast my vote at the record store. But I'm not arrogant enough to tell someone I admire that much what he should be doing, and respectful enough to keep my wishes to myself when speaking to artists whose path I maybe don;t feel like going down. Maybe that's maturity. sh