Good and bad are important only what you like is important - to you only. Its like a Frank Lloyd Wright home-Fallingwater let's say. Very controlled, very beautiful but made for people under 5'5". No matter how beautiful/how highly ranked if I can't live with it, I will be unlikely to appreciate it. Beauty is in one's experience and interaction with the work. in the case of the music though, the pity is that few stopped to find out. Music is also mostly marketing nowadays and probably the "packaging" just wasn't right for the folks oblivious to the music in DC. btw, a great jazz place in DC is HR-57. used to be on 6th street now on 14th i think.
2007/4/13, Aditya Chadha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On another list, we had a short discussion last year on the art of > busking. Someone pointed out that the set of things that impress > jugglers, and the set of things that impress a tipping crowd, are nearly > disjoint[0]. A friend of his had discovered that he ate far better by > intentionally "messing up" once he had a crowd, letting them vicariously > get into the effort, and then finally "accomplishing" the "tricky move"[1] > -- he didn't just demonstrate a skill, but he also told a story, and it > was reflected in his tip jar. http://sawlady.com/blog/?p=27 That's another reaction calling JB a bad busker. But, the central question remains: How do you distinguish between good art and bad? Especially in our new world of unlimited choice? Cheers, Aditya
