Re: [Finale] RE: Very OT-Tommy, etc.

Tue, 23 Aug 2005 21:29:23 -0700

Haven't heard the album in question, but the concept strikes me as kinda tongue-in-cheek.  "Rock music for people who don't like rock music"?  Wouldn't that verdict be better applied to the likes of REO Speedwagon, Jefferson Starship, Phil Collins... or, more recently, Creed, Nickelback, etc?  A clever, light-hearted Beatles-meets-Baroque music parody isn't really the kind of thing I'd go out of my way to listen to, but it seems pretty inoffensive in the grand scheme of things.

- Darcy
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Brooklyn, NY



On 23 Aug 2005, at 10:12 PM, Chuck Israels wrote:

Yeah, I knew Josh, and I do think it was smart and pretty well done.  Still, it struck me as rock music for people who don't like rock music, and Baroque music for people who don't like Baroque music,  Kind of like Claude Bolling's music that he wrote for Rampal and Yo Yo Ma, both of which I've played (the Flute Suite with Bolling and Rampal at Carnegie Hall, years ago).  Bolling and Rifkin are both fine musicians, but I find these particular projects neither fish nor fowl, and I am mystified by their success.  Of course, there's George Winston and Kenny G, and I am at a loss to explain that too. :-)
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