There's a difference between playing some music and performing an exhibition. This is an exhibition, pure show. He could be juggling chainsaws, or lifting concrete blocks with random, painful-looking piercings. I'm not saying I'm not impressed, because I certainly am...it's pretty wild stuff...but I'm also saying that I'm not content to watch the exhibition. I'd rather listen to someone who might slide his chair over and ask me to pick a few.
________________________________ From: Robert Feivor <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, December 7, 2009 11:35:51 PM Subject: Re: Check out this guys technique My oh my! Tater's post got me (another middle aged #$%^) to watch the video; pardon the term but what a "pile". Talent, yes but maturity of the style is seriously lacking. At least IMHO. I suppose the style itself is about due to come back around but why butcher a song like that? If you like technique like that look to Michael Hedges, Stanley Jordan or Tuck Andress (please!) RF in MN On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 7:04 AM, Alexander, Jeffrey <[email protected]> wrote: Amen Tater, amen. > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: mistertaterbug [mailto:[email protected]] >>Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2009 9:39 PM >>To: Taterbugmando >>Subject: Re: Check out this guys technique > >>Thanks Neal, for your helpful and open-minded comments. I am curious >>what your age is? Let me tell you how I see it, beings I'm the one >>that started this curmudgeonly message board... > >>Sure, the kid has chops. Nobody can deny that, nobody has. There's no >>telling how much time/effort/money he's spent getting to this place in >>his artistry. Yes, he is following his muse and probably engaged in >>doing what he thinks will sell his face to the festival circuit. The >>techniques the kid uses are not new. Even I know that, as old and >>curmudgeonly and out-of-date as I am. I don't possess the kind of >>chops this kid has. Hell, I can barely do what I do. But I think the >>one thing that is missing in this presentation is believability. The >>next link was a version by Howling Wolf. Howling Wolf's version is >>crude, even simple-minded by comparison(if I were to be so stupid as >>to compare the two as being remotely the same thing), but the Wolf's >>version has something in spades that the kid doesn't have and that's >>believability. Howling Wolf's lived on the hard road and you can hear >>it in his voice, in his presentation. He has nothing to prove. While >>the kid is brilliant and obviously gifted, he needs to live a while >>before he's got anything but flash to give the rest of us. Once he >>does, I'm sure he'll be hard to ignore when he has something to say. >>Right now he's throwing everything he has into the mix all at once. To >>him, it's about the show, not the message. > >>A real serious thing happened to me when the first of my two kids was >>laid in my hands just a few minutes after birth. It became readily >>apparent that the wet and wriggling kid was something very serious and >>real and that I had surrounded myself with a lot of superficial >>bullshit prior to that event. So, pretty much right then my attitude >>changed from being overly apologetic and worrying about pleasing >>everybody to seeing a narrow corridor lined on both sides with things >>that aren't useful to me or don't support my way of life, my religious >>beliefs, my moral code, my artistic tastes, ad infinitum. It has been >>hard for me to start being more open to what other people have to say, >>musically or otherwise, but I do make the effort. I listen to a lot of >>music from all over the world because I want to know what's out there. >>Seems most every other person on the planet is getting along real fine >>without my way of doing things. That's cool by me. But even with the >>wide array of styles, most unfamiliar to me, I can hear some purpose >>there, something real. > >>I also know that on this list of what you so freely call "middle-aged >>curmudgeons" are quite a few men and women who have taken a lot of >>really hard knocks and are still standing, still dreaming, still >>striving to live good lives. It takes something real and honest to get >>a curmudgeon's attention. No flash will do it, no shallow words. >>Speaking strictly for myself, gimme something real I can bite into or >>don't waste my time. I don't have as much time left as I once did and >>I don't choose to spend what I do have left indulging in activities >>that don't speak to me or deal with people who have a continuing >>negative impact on my days. So, while young Mister Champagne is loaded >>with licks, right now it comes across to me as gimmicks. Maybe if I >>sat down and talked to the guy and got to know him I might find he's >>really cool and sincere and I might understand what he's up to and I >>might even "hear" what he's trying to say, but right now all I get >>from him is, to quote you again, a bunch of noise. And that, without >>apology, is fine too. > > >>Mistertaterbug > >>On Dec 6, 12:50 am, Neal <[email protected]> wrote: >>> don't apologize. my god, sounds like there's nothing but a bunch of >>> curmudgeonly 50 year old men on this board. a bunch of noise...ha. i >>> mean, it's not my style either, but don't act like this kid doesn't >>> have talent. thanks linda. >>> >>> neal >>> >>> On Dec 5, 10:43 pm, Linda <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> > Now my face is red... >>> > ha >>> > I could have put a link to one the young man wrote himself...would >>> > have been a better idea. >>> > Thanks for this link...now that is a tune!! >>> > Somebody needed to tell me..thanks.. >>> > linda >>> >>> > On Dec 6, 4:04 pm, Tud Jones <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> > > Here is Spoonful:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TwEYuues6Y&feature=fvw >>> >>> > > On Dec 5, 6:39 pm, [email protected] wrote: >>> >>> > > > Thank you very much for sharing. Thats some mad skillz. >>> >>> > > > -----Original Message----- >>> > > > From: Linda <[email protected]> >>> > > > To: Taterbugmando <[email protected]> >>> > > > Sent: Sat, Dec 5, 2009 5:46 pm >>> > > > Subject: Check out this guys technique >>> >>> > > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwbBGL8cFJw >>> >>> > > > Its great to see young people like this fella. >>> >>> > > > -- >>> >>> > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> > > > Groups >>> > > > "Taterbugmando" group. >>> > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> > > > [email protected]. >>> > > > For more options, visit this group >>> > > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en. > >>-- > >>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>"Taterbugmando" group. >>To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>[email protected]. >>For more options, visit this group at >>http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en. > > >>-- > >>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>"Taterbugmando" group. >>To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>[email protected]. >>For more options, visit this group at >>http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. 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