skip heller wrote...
John -- You make a good point here, but you might want to take it a step further: You're John Zorn, you've time-consumingly written and arranged a bunch of music...
You think? Admittedly, I haven't heard the electric masada band, but based on some of these filmworks records it doesn't seem like he's working very hard at all some of the time. Unless the time-consuming part is figuring out where he put his rolodex. Don't get me wrong, he's a monstrously talented guy when he's on, but I suppose I just flinch a little bit at seeing 'music composed by JZ' stamped on 'Trembling Before God' just as a for instance (a record I enjoy quite a lot, for the record). But anyway, I suppose that's beside the point. John Zorn is certainly not a human jukebox, but he may be a talented asshole. As someone mentioned earlier, maybe this is such a part of his schtick at this point that he can't just solve problems like a stern but nevertheless civil human being; still, given the choice between ruining some affectionate if massively inconsiderate idiot's day or not, I'm a fan of the latter. (and this doesn't even touch on the sad witnesses to this massively unprofessional explosion...)