[NewMusic] breathtakingly bad 21Grand

[David Slusser]

On Jun 28, 2007, at 12:50 PM, Michael Zelner wrote:
> Allow me to throw a little oil on the fire by quoting from the
> aforementioned EB Express preview piece ("Drummer Scott Amendola
> isn't afraid of anything - even a groove"):
>
>> The drummer admits he went through a long period of self-scrutiny to
>> establish that he's doing all this because it's musical, and not
>> because he's trying to be iconoclastic or cool. "A lot of times when
>> you're playing music that's supposed to be that open, there's this
>> idea that you can't play a groove because the groove is, like,
>> taboo," he says, indicating how easy it is for improvised music to
>> devolve into highbrow wankery. But the best cats know that "open" is
>> actually code for "anything goes." "The real leaders of that music
>> demonstrate that. That's what separates the real improvisers -- the
>> real musicians -- from the bullshit. And there's a lot of bullshit
>> out there."

One person's bullshit is another person's fertilizer.

(...and yeah, there still is a lot of bullshit out there.)