[Jandek] Belfast Review

[Mark Greenberg]

Danen,

You are so right and you stated it very well.

-Mark





On Jul 23, 2009, at 11:32 PM, Danen Jobe wrote:

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> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 8:52 PM, <Michael.Goldman at ch2m.com> wrote:
> He's entitled to his own opinion.  I guess.
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> Yeah, and there's always people at a Janky show who don't like it -  
> God knows Coltrane dealt with a plethora of that, and look how his  
> late music is worshipped now (a waitress at a Village Vanguard gig  
> is said to have dropped her tray at some point in "Chasin' the  
> Trane" and screamed "I can't take it anymore!"). So my problem with  
> the review isn't the reaction (typical, and fair enough) as it is  
> the insistence that nobody could've enjoyed this gig, and that  
> everyone who seemed to be was "pretending." Really? How the hell do  
> YOU know? State your own opinion and leave it at that - don't ruin  
> others' experience insisting that it must mirror your own.
>
> Glad to hear Jandek is resurrecting the PiL sound he had a bit  
> around "Newcastle Sunday." The irony is that there is a VERY strong  
> chance he's never heard "Metal Box," but I bet Richard Youngs has.  
> Man, I love this description:
>
> "...Jandek strumming a tuneless electric guitar which has been put  
> through a myriad of effects until it sounds like something  
> resembling a dentist’s drill turned on inside a wind tunnel. "
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> Yeah, I could dig an hour or so of that. But that's my opinion...
>
> danen
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> Michael Goldman
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