i guess ill chime in, since i was there front row and mid center...
Kenny Larkin: brought up some great, interesting topics that should have
been expanded on IMHO, but got washed out because of lack of time. He also
served as the tension/comic relief when things seemed to get a bit think b/t
flash and jon
Acquaviva:Seemed to be the grounder on the panel and the one who brought
some discussions over to techno when flash was taking it far into hip hop.
To hear John finally speak on some stuff was great-very nice and humble
person it seemed from what he had to say. I wish he could have spoken more.
LTJ:was er...very English in his silence.? I think me, and a lot of others,
thought it would have been great to hear him say more, esp. with the British
take on things and coming from a dnb angle.It really is unfortunate that he
didn't say more, as when he did speak it was poised and well put.
As for performance...it was a treat to hear him play to such a small crowd
in that kind of setting-im sure its rare.
KB&GMF: I'll group these together, because they seemed to talk together. GMF
had a lot to say, and often too much. His schooling was necessary but also
seemed as if nothing new was being said. Though a presence like GMF was
needed, i think between the two they seemed to weight the discussions-not
letting the others get a word in edge wise.Yes, they were funny and
educational but i think the moderator could have done a bit more to keep the
panel even-esp. with LTJ.
overall: my one beef is no femmes on the panel. Laura Gavour (sp-sorry, hun)
was in the audience and I think it would have been great to throw her up
there (since James Pennington was MIA) and hear what she had to say, as she
was involved in early transmat and so on-which would have given the panel
some one outside of the early plus8 camp from detroit.
the discussion could have gone on longer-and i do think performance could
have been sacrificed a bit for so. just as it was getting interesting and
true and the panel started to relax-it was 'push back the seats and
performance time!'....bringing the atmosphere from one level
oooooooooooooover to another.
ill stop there, as at this point im a bit tired of talking about it in
general. hopefully the host learned more and will do this again, though.
d
From: "J. S. Landau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [313] A2 Evening w/ Bukem and Flash
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 10:53:42 -0400
>By the way, did anybody attend any of the other events around town? +8
record
>release party? LTJ at the State? Grandmaster Flash and any others in
A2?
I was at the A2 evening - LTJ did a nice set. He had an MC doing some
fairly dancehall sounding vocals over what he played, but it seemed to be
good. I don't know, I'm not a big fan of the records he played.
Kurtis Blow was Kurtis Blow (if you've seen the man you understand.)
Flash was amazing. He's been doing this for 25 years or so - he's got all
his skills down pat. He's also an amazing performer, in the non-DJ sense
of the word. He had the crowd on a string, and took them through his own
"History of Hip-Hop" over the course of about an hour and a half.
Decent crowd, although not as good as I think they were hoping for, and I
had hoped to see Larkin or Acquaviva spin too.
Josh Landau
www.wcbn.org
WCBN-FM
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