[NewMusic] breathtakingly bad 21Grand

[weasel walter]

ah, the hubris.

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> >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."