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Comment on Top Ten Musician’s List for 2008 by LJM

LJM — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:15:15 +0000

Chris, I think, by “unethical,” Jeff means, “I don’t get to see KC this summer because of a scheduling misunderstanding between Ade and Robert!”

He hasn’t said what he means by “unethical” because he’s embarrassed by his childish overreaction and misuse of the word. Hopefully, he’ll summon his courage and be man enough to apologize.

Comment on Top Ten Musician’s List for 2008 by Chris DeVito

Chris DeVito — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:55:13 +0000

You still haven’t answered the question, so I’ll repeat it once again: What are the “unethical management practices” by Adrian Belew of which you speak? If you don’t have the guts to answer and give specifics, you should retract your libelous comments and apologize. Nothing in Fripp’s diaries (yes, I’ve read them) OR Belew’s blog indicates that either man has been “unethical.” (And nothing in your reply is relevant to the issue, either.)

Comment on Top Ten Musician’s List for 2008 by Jeff Boule

Jeff Boule — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 04:03:03 +0000

To Mr. DeVito,

Mr. Belew equally libeled me when he insinuated that I either take “Jonestown” Kool Aid and die, or some filled with mind-altering substances. I do in fact drink Kool Aid, diet, as I am diabetic.

Next, what your opinion dictates as cowardly and evasive my education details as fair and balanced.

Lest we all lose perspective on this, perhaps I should make it clear, you are dealing with a die-hard Adrian Belew fan here. I bought all of the discs he sold that were available with autographs, Bears, solo, Power Trio, all my copies are signed, purchased from the artist (guess I can kiss that good-bye). I own the Japanese imports of Lone Rhino and Twang Bar King. Next, I own the original DCI copy of The Adrian Belew Electronic Guitar on VHS. Mr. DeVito, do you own that?

Lastly, I spent over one thousand dollars to get a guitar painted, inspired by Belew, and another thousand to have it outfitted with a guitar synth so I could play along with Belew’s parts on solo, Bears and King Crimson records.

Perhaps I should put you all in touch with my wife who saw me AGONIZE over having made such a discovery?

Again, I recommend reading Fripp’s words for yourselves. Poor excuse, as was mentioned in another post, I cannot attest, all I did was gather the facts and report on them.

This is the last I will speak on this matter as I have been assigned other things. The final word on this is that it is my opinion, that’s all. For all our sakes, let’s hope this is all for naught.

Comment on Top Ten Musician’s List for 2008 by Chris DeVito

Chris DeVito — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 02:00:17 +0000

You have libeled Adrian Belew. Your reply to David Ash is cowardly and evasive. I’ll repeat his question: What are the “unethical management practices” by Adrian Belew of which you speak? If you don’t have the guts to answer and give specifics, you should retract your libelous comments and apologize.

Comment on The Death Of Rock and Roll, and Progressive by James Adkisson

James Adkisson — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:36:28 +0000

All of that is stupid. Anyone who has ever been in a band, knows that it’s hard to get everyones schedules together. It must be 10 times harder when you don’t live in the same countries and some of your members have other bands and projects. Since Robert has been involved with bands for years I can’t imagine this is the first time a sheduling problem has occured. It makes me think something else is the problem and this incident is just becoming the scapegoat. But if not and that’s all it takes for Robert to give up that’s pretty pitiful.

Comment on Top Ten Musician’s List for 2008 by Jeff Boule

Jeff Boule — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:31:55 +0000

For Mr. Ash,

I invite you to peruse both of the artists (Belew and Fripp) current and PAST blogs and please make sure you read each one carefully and then I urge you to draw your own conclusions.

Thank you for your interest, thank you for reading,
JB

Comment on The Death Of Rock and Roll, and Progressive by George P

George P — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:43:48 +0000

Frankly, I don’t give a ****. The story as posted on this blog is off the mark. I’ve been a longtime fan of KC and Fripp, but he has just gotten too strange, too into himself aned his mind. He has disappeared up his *** with his philosophizing. I loved seeing KC in New York this past summer, but Fripp’s hiding behind the electronics rack was just frigging bizarre. One of his previous collaborators appeared at Yale last year with a student orchestra and the head of the classical guitar department and we had the pleasure of meeting him after the performance. I asked him if he woiuld work with him again. His answer was an emphatic “NO! Fripp is an odd character, difficult to work with.” I say let him whine in his blog and do whatevever he wants. If KC appears again (which wouldn’t surprise me if it did for another brief stint later in the year) or not - so what. Move on, make music. Adrian is thriving and if Fripp has no interest in developing new material, so be it. We figured this would be the last hurrah and if it is, that’s fine with us. There are too many interesting people for Adrian to work with to bother appeasing Fripp.

Comment on Top Ten Musician’s List for 2008 by Evan

Evan — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:41:48 +0000

I think it would be great to see a top 10 list of bands for 2008!!!

Evan
http://www.beyondrace.com

Comment on The Death Of Rock and Roll, and Progressive by adrian belew

adrian belew — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:23:25 +0000

dude, you have been drinking the kool-aid.
if you adore robert and King Crimson as much as it seems you do,
you NEED to publicly APOLOGIZE to ME now for calling me “unethical”. I did nothing to warrant this punishment and more importantly:

I WILL NOT BE SEEN AS THE ONE WHO ENDED KING CRIMSON. it is not true and it’s not fair.

I’m waiting…
adrian belew

Comment on Top Ten Musician’s List for 2008 by David Ash

David Ash — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:34:42 +0000

What are the “unethical management practices” by Adrian Belew of which you speak?

Comment on Faithful Friends: A Forgotten Sixties Gem by des

des — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:17:03 +0000

I agree Thinking of Mary and Nel Cox were good but I liked the title song Faithful Friends (And Flattering Foe).

Comment on The Year in Review: Highs and Lows, Including the 5 Worst Jazz Magazine Cover Stories by Howard Mandel

Howard Mandel — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:37:05 +0000

Thanks for both the yay and the nay here. I wish you’d have mentioned that my Cecil Taylor article in DB was excerpted from my book Miles Ornette Cecil — Jazz Beyond Jazz, published in 2008 by Routledge, which got little play from the jazz outlets I’ve typically worked for or anywhere else.

As for the Freddie Hubbard story in DB: I witnessed Freddie up close and in person, in several different situations, for a week last December, and wrote an honest story about his decline as well as the way we might think of what was to be his final chapter as a success or take it as a lesson. I’ll stand by that article. The work David Weiss did with the New Jazz Composers Quartet to support Freddie last year was admirable, and musical. Freddie’s complicity in his own ill health has not been reported by anyone, me included — but that goes to show how far most jazz magazines or any other outlets in America seem to be from publishing drealistic accounts of how artists live and die. You may take a look at the “author’s authorized version” of my DB feature on my website; there are few adjustments, but maybe they are telling. I felt for Freddie, I really did, and do. I’ve listened to him today, after learning of his death, and did an NPR obituary appreciation — just a little bit of notice of a man who was a jazz artist. As I write earlier today in my blog, he will be missed and he will be remembered.

Comment on Why Our Jazz Magazines are Bad– And Bad for Jazz by Chris Standring

Chris Standring — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:53:16 +0000

Sanborn a hack???? Come on! What musical qualifications do you have to come up with a judgement like this? Do you know that Sanborn is probably the most influential sax player living today? Because he chose to go down the commercial road does not mean he is less of an artist or player. Be careful of your words, you make yourself look like the hack you describe!

Comment on Todd Rundgren Turns Atlantic City Borgata Into His Personal Hard Rock Arena by jeff'weavil'gauss

jeff'weavil'gauss — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:59:59 +0000

GREAT review…way to put things in perspective and i hope you are diggin’ the album now that it’s out.

Comment on Coltrane for Christmas by Tom Tallitsch

Tom Tallitsch — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:06:06 +0000

Thanks for the great list!!!

My favorite Coltrane album at this time is “Crescent” on the Impulse label (1963 I think).

John Coltrane is in his next stage of development and experimentation, following the Prestige and Atlantic years; using more pentatonics, modal interchanges, and harmonic substitutions. He is also using a larger tip opening and facing on his Otto Link mouthpiece than in previous albums.

This album is similar to the other Coltrane quartet albums on Impulse with McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, and Elvin Jones, and can be compared closely to “A Love Supreme”

If you love Jazz, Buy this!!!

Comment on VALENCIA NEW VIDEO POSTED by PypePayolaniP

PypePayolaniP — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 03:32:45 +0000

Qualitative resource

Comment on Lights In The Sky, Lights On The Stage, Nine Inch Nails Illuminates The Future of Music, Wachovia Spectrum Auditorium, August 29th. by Jessica

Jessica — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:42:56 +0000

I would like to know when you are coming out with lights in the sky on dvd. That show at the izod theater in nj was awesome!!!

Comment on WBGO: Lobotomized? by Vince Cartier

Vince Cartier — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:22:08 +0000

As to the commercial efforts. The programming may say there are 3 or 4 spots read by announcer per hour, but that is not usualy the case. The commercials are not actually commericals in the truest sense. The sports are called underwriting. The paramaters and guidelines of the spots have been set forth by the FCC. They can be no longer than 30 seconds, most underwriting spots are 15 seconds at most public stations. They cannot quantify or qualify a product, “no best,” “only place to find this,” no “while supply lasts” kind of stuff. No commercial station like ads. The copy is very restricted and also monitored. Public stations don’t really have much leeway when it comes to the spots you do hear. Basically the corporate sponsorship is nothing more than the name of the company and location and phone or website. That’s it. Underwriting is very effective, because the listeners who support a public station pay a membership to the station so they take ownership and support the other people like themselves who support the station. But they are not getting big bucks for the spots.

Comment on Why Our Jazz Magazines are Bad– And Bad for Jazz by Patrick Hinely

Patrick Hinely — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:52:28 +0000

Thank you Patricia for the plug for CODA (in the interest of full disclosure let me say I have been writing for that publication on and off - but mostly on - since the late 1980s) …the pay isn’t so great (but to quote Adam Nussbaum: You heard the joke about the jazz writer who was in it for the money…that’s the joke…) but at least every one of its long and distinguished string of editors has not only allowed contributors to speak in our own voices but - to varying degrees - has pretty much insisted on it, which is why, finally, some time ago, I ceased contributing to DB and JT, both of which seemed intent on making their texts as stylistically featureless as possible, in keeping with the predominance of marketing sizzle over creative substance. Yawn. I couldn’t even tell you when my subscriptions ran out, I just know I don’t miss that corporate-driven drivel. Sometimes I got the feeling that those editors spent their days worrying that if they didn’t leave their own fingerprints all over everything they touched, someone up their food chain might start to question why they were actually needed, which is, in my experience, an all too valid question…
And thank you George Fuller for mentioning one of my all-time favorite albums, John Simon’s JOURNEY, which was also my own introduction to Sanborn’s playing. “Living in a Land of Sunshine” remains a favorite obscure masterpiece of the 1970s, and Sanborn’s contribution to it ranks right up there alongside Simon’s own and Dave Holland’s. Too bad his subsequent oeuvre has been pale by comparison. So it goes.

Comment on Throwdown: Downbeat v Jazz Times, Dec 08-Jan 09 by JJ

JJ — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:21:37 +0000

I never read either - the coverage has always been shallow. And as for the star system, your comment that ‘all the cds are above average’ in DB has been true for decades. The ratings truly supply zero information …