15 Oct
2003
15 Oct
'03
8:40 a.m.
From: Mark Knecht [mailto:mknecht@controlnet.com]
that side of the
convince
you.}
Sorry. Not clear. I listen a lot to jazz fusion, like John Scofield or John
McLaughlin, or then a lot of prog rock stuff like Spock's Beard or
Sorry.
We have
that whole rock/blues and jazz legacy to deal with as well {as
opposed> to the
watered down, imitative stuff that comes from pond.} The> American public has come to value
things like depth
and quality and
a certain> "earthiness" that you just
don't get with "Eurodisco."
This statement in a week when the Top 10, for the first time in History,
was completely comprised of all Black artists. Yes, our charts, and
apparently our brethren, have gone a different direction.
I'm not quite sure what this means.
{Tho' you really couldn't tell it by looking at our charts. ... A few
minutes> on the streets or in some of our backwoods clubs would Conspiracy. None of this is represented on the radio
today, really. (In
reference to your "that whole rock/blues and jazz legacy" comment, which I
agree with.)
I meant "core" stuff... like old-school jazz, blues, country...
"real" rock ...even classical.
Are you seeing "legacy" as bad? ...Somehow limiting?
My unintelligible comment about black artists was only
that this week
everything on the radio is hip hop, rap or what passes taday as R&B, even
though I have a hard time equatig Beyonce Knowles, no matter how good
looking or talented she is, with R&B. Nothing on commercially driven radio
around her has anythign to do with, again, "that whole rock/blues and jazz
legacy".
:} Not at all. I haven't believed the label "R&B" since around the end
of the original Motown sound.
I tend to wonder why folk reference past movements that way. {Like Billy Ray Cyrus, or
whoever happens to be todays twang pop superstar, calling themselves a "country"
singer or whatever...}
I hope this helps explain my point of view a bit, even
if it is out of
touch.
:} Not really... These days I think it might be the ideations of the producer that
matters. It would seem that some sort of late seventies nostalgia has grasped us by the
sensibilities in the past few years.
Maybe it's a pre-revolutionary sphincter convulsion sort of thing... maybe it's
the result of some secretive neo-conservative underground... who knows?