Just the facts

[AllenLowe]

well, a few years ago I was discussing the bebop era with someone - and we figured out that virtually every great musician of that era was a junkie of some kind - so there may be something to that -

[clifford_thornton]

i also don't care. i am entitled to my opinion. which is that they are a load of dumpage.

i need them telling me what i should be listening to as much as i needed thurston moore telling me years ago.

Thurston at least had more sense of humor about it...

[Chuck Nessa]

but do i need moore telling me that marzette watts was a "soulful black cat?"

Why take everything personally?

[ghost of miles]

Whatever happened to spinslps?

[clifford_thornton]

(& again, if iverson covered harmonia, kluster, parson sound, even early caravan-- anything an american would find even a little esoteric... it might still suck but at least you'd KNOW it wasn't for shock/kitsch value, despite his weak-ass protestations.)

I'd shit if anyone covered "Sov Gott Rose-Marie"...

Thurston's a goofball, enthused and sometimes over-enthused, but he's probably done more good than harm in the long run. I mean, he wasn't just mindlessly touting the Alabama Feeling LP, but reissued it on CD a few years after that Grand Royal article and put out/bankrolled some of Doyle's other recordings on Ecstatic Peace and other labels. I mean, not that Doyle's the greatest player on earth but you gotta respect Moore's helpful enthusiasm. He did a lot of cool shit with that DGC A&R bonus, I'll tell you that much...

Edited October 18, 2007 by clifford_thornton

[Hoppy T. Frog]

DGC...very underrated record label sort of!

I see a truckload of "Beavis and Butthead Experience" cut-outs that say otherwise.