[NewMusic] John Zorn gives out the comps but bans reviews

[weasel walter]

i've received some meaningful criticism and/or publicity in my career. i
think that there are always exceptions to the rule. i've also received
both positive, neutral and negative "criticism" that amounted to a pile
of beans. just a bunch of ignorant gumflapping.

there are some people out there who can write, but the majority suck.

ww
 
On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:00:36 -0800 Sarah - 21 Grand <21grand at 21grand.org>
writes:
> Mr. Walter wrote:
> i think the paradigm of "music criticism" fully deserves criticism 
> back
> from musicians. 
> 
> - I agree. 
> 
> in the field, pretty much all i see and read right now is a huge 
> amount
> of hack-work. this disposable, meaningless music writing deserves to 
> be
> challenged just as much as the writers believe they're challenging 
> the
> face of music. 
> 
> - I thought that article about you in Signal to Noise a few months 
> back by
> Dan Warburton was pretty good, as well as the reviews of your albums 
> in the
> Wire shortly before that.
> 
> sl
> 
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