http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Sat, 10 May 2008 01:29:31 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/05/07/091519.php#comment-716877 On what would you base my party worthiness? I am just sick to death of the rare mention of Jethro Tull being one where they are trivialized. One thing I like about sports is there is a final score, for instance, in any of Joe Zawinul's days after Ben Webster, Miles and the earliest days of Weather Report, I would like Jethro Tull's chances of scoring a first round tko against him and his latter day geekazoid efforts, and while Roland Kirk could play 3 instruments at once,though not well, the colors in his musical tapestry, even if i were to limit Tulls career to the same length are no where near as varied. The fact I make is while so many of the inteligentsia or however that is spelled have rushed to the sex pistols, the band, now the decemberists, new york dolls, the damned, king crimson the very best of their time who people think they know because of their brief flirtation with mass popularity via aqualung, 4 years of wearing a codpiece and standing on one leg from time to time, has passed right by their noses.o they also liked it recently when a former band member had a sex change, leaving out the part about being a former member of the grenidier guard and concertmaster of the lso at the same time he was a playing member in tull. I do okay at parties, the other night spent 5 hours drinking with denis savard, we were both standing no problem, i tend to like clifton chenier, muddy waters, howlin wolf, maybe even slim shady, i like that bit about which one of the spice girls am i going to impregnate or the grateful dead at parties. 716877@blogcritics.org Sat, 10 May 2008 01:29:31 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/05/07/091519.php#comment-716794 lmao 716794@blogcritics.org Fri, 9 May 2008 16:12:41 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/05/07/091519.php#comment-716666 i bet you're loads of fun at parties. 716666@blogcritics.org Fri, 9 May 2008 08:27:24 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/05/07/091519.php#comment-716636 Believe me I am more than conversant in the world of jazz, Roland Kirk and Sun Ra. I remain sickened, and in part due to people like Lester Bangs and seemingly yourself that Jethro Tull is ever mentioned, and I mean counting each of the year between 1968 and now as some kind of sick sister to the likes of Roland Kirk. Ian Anderson is the most undervalued musician of his era, while the likes of the Velvet Undergound, Talking Heads,Nirvana, Peter Gabriel and Elvis Costello have had their ass kissed more times than I care to bare further witness to. Just how much Jethro Tull music do you and other alleged music afficianados have awareness of say post 1972. And just how aware were you really of their product prior to that? I know your Kirk and his Bright Moments well indeed and Ian Anderson, while doubtlessly influenced as a 19 year old, long since transcended Kirks inventions, and having seen both live, in stagecraft, Ian Anderson has no superior in his time, including Ra and Roland Kirk. Lester Bangs is a drugged jackass who had a willing audience. May that lot dance with the New York Dolls into damned eternity. 716636@blogcritics.org Fri, 9 May 2008 02:19:07 EDT