Re: new musician intro

Jeff Slattery (slats@uclink3.berkeley.edu)
Mon, 11 Sep 1995 01:33:35 -0700 (PDT)


somebody tell me this isn't bait...

On Sun, 10 Sep 1995, fingers wrote:

(lots of stuff, including)

> (I) kinda dig what you
> call acid jazz because it is more accesable than fusion and way more
> accesible than jazz. With jazz, when you have great musicians, one may
> never really know what to expect, or what may happen at any time. Acid
> jazz is much safer and tamer in my opinion. I like the danger associated
> with the unknown, instead of the comfortable feeling you get listening to
> formulas.

8<----cut to the chase----

> Is this not so? Have I missed something? does
> someone want to hip me to what I may not understand about this?

no, this is not so, and thank you for insulting a large number of artists.
sounds like you need to rework your criteria, cuz by your own admission
and using your standards (opinions), acid-jazz is not what you like, yet
you kinda dig it. thank you for kinda digging us boring old hedz.

go to some shows, guy, some good shows, and get back to me.

2+2 is a formula, so is E=mc2; one'll get you into 1st grade, the other
into the nature of the universe. Musical formulas are the same way, from
merely useful to earth-shattering in the right interpretation and
application...

keep the faith,
-slats