Recently, while conversing with various musician-types at a gig out east, the quote "musicians playing to musicians" came up. It's certainly not an original sentiment, but for some reason the setting and phrasing caused it to really stick in my head. It reminded me of that old Onion "News in Brief" JazzFest Performer Recognizes Audience From Last ( Read more... )

Disclaimer: These opinions are not the opinions of any band members beyond myself, and any resemblance in beliefs or feelings of any band member, real or imagined, is purely coincidence, or is cited directly. Terms used often by fellow band members may be used, but this does not mean it came from them. It means I talk more like them now.

I have just ( Read more... )

Disclaimer: These opinions are not the opinions of any band members beyond myself, and any resemblance in beliefs or feelings of any band member, real or imagined, is purely coincidence, or is cited directly. Terms used often by fellow band members may be used, but this does not mean it came from them. It means I talk more like them now.

I have ( Read more... )

So I had been mulling over the idea of writing some blog-itude about music that people expect I would like, or that I'm "supposed" to like, or that everyone agrees is brilliant but which I find unlistenable, but then one of those splendid chaps at Sound On Sound went ahead and did it for me:
"I wonder if these albums actually owe their cult status ( Read more... )