Post #407648 by Hakalugi on Sat, Sep 13, 2008 12:54 AM

On 2008-09-13 00:06, woofmutt wrote:
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People do not want to read paragraphs of text. They aren't interested in the supporting arguments of an opinion. They want sound bites.

Here's as near of a soundbite bite as I could extract:

"But when Kenny G decided that it was appropriate for him to defile the music of the man who is probably the greatest jazz musician that has ever lived by spewing his lame-ass, jive, pseudo bluesy, out-of-tune, noodling, wimped out, fucked up playing all over one of the great Louis's tracks (even one of his lesser ones), he did something that I would not have imagined possible. He, in one move, through his unbelievably pretentious and calloused musical decision to embark on this most cynical of musical paths, shit all over the graves of all the musicians past and present who have risked their lives by going out there on the road for years and years developing their own music inspired by the standards of grace that Louis Armstrong brought to every single note he played over an amazing lifetime as a musician."

Okay, so not quite a soundbite, but it's still a glorious read!

Thanks Lucas for sharing this. I'm now gonna go listen to my copy of "As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls".