Gabba Flamenco Crossover
High Sierra Skullfuck
Read a John peel biography by Mick Wall over the weekend (actually on saturday eve waiting for Match Of The Day to come on). A shabby effort all round, no doubt slammed together to cash in on his death (it must have taken about a week to write - giveaways being the huge font size and endless tributes from other DJs/musician/personalities which go on for 20 pages or so). i only read it because it was a birthday present from a good friend and I knew they'd asked me if I'd read it.
Anyway... dunno if it was the effect of this tardy hagiography but I've begun to assess the mans legacy in a rather more objective, perhaps negative light. In particular, although there's no doubting his passion for music, I'm beginning to doubt how much he understood it. After all, isnt there a point where open mindedness, taken to extremes, just becomes blind unwillingness, or inability, to discriminate on any musical grounds at all?
And if (as appears to be the case) the sole criteria for your assessment of a musical work is an inverse of the general consenses towards it - ie. only liking the stuff no-one else likes as creed - isnt that more of a social criteria than a musical one?
Or am I being a sacreligious little tyke?
Anyway... dunno if it was the effect of this tardy hagiography but I've begun to assess the mans legacy in a rather more objective, perhaps negative light. In particular, although there's no doubting his passion for music, I'm beginning to doubt how much he understood it. After all, isnt there a point where open mindedness, taken to extremes, just becomes blind unwillingness, or inability, to discriminate on any musical grounds at all?
And if (as appears to be the case) the sole criteria for your assessment of a musical work is an inverse of the general consenses towards it - ie. only liking the stuff no-one else likes as creed - isnt that more of a social criteria than a musical one?
Or am I being a sacreligious little tyke?