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Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2010 9:17
PM
Subject: OT was David Torn,Terry
Bozzio,Tony Levin,Pat Mastelotto NAMM 2010
Rainer wrote:
You should rather not
get a stick - for various reasons explained here by a looper:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky7t0UGaYaw
and
then wrote:
For a review from one of us, read here:
http://loopers-delight.com/LDarchive/200305/msg00112.html
First of all as brilliant as Mr Fresno
is, he is also a person with an obvious axe to grind, and you have to wonder
about a guy who gets so bent out of shape (enough to devote considerable
creative energy to write a song about the subject) because a designer won't
make little modifications to Brian's exacting needs. You know the Stick
works just fine for people like Tony Levin, Tom Greisgraber, and many many
other accomplished stick players including Emmet Chapman himself who I
saw in the 70's when he was first unveiling the instrument. So
one might take what BKF says with a grain of salt. There is obviously some
other agenda at play. What ever law suit Chapman has going, there
again is the intellectual property issue, Is there any argument that Chapman
was the guy to originally conceive of, build, and play the instrument? I
think not.
Regarding quoting Rick's review, I saw the same show and
I have to agree he is an astoundingly gifted musician both incredibly witty
and entertaining. But that doesn't mean he is the
definitive authority on anything. Methinks the souring of his
relationship with Chapman has more to do with Mr Fresno's personality quirks
than with Chapman himself. Without going in to detail lets just say that Mr
Fresno brings a lot of baggage to the party and I'm not just talking about
gear. Neither of these examples in my opinion is enough reason to
change your mind Jim though you might want to check out BKF because he
really is amazing. But that video was low brow and mean spirited at best,
but not at all surprising to me. I'm personally not of the opinion
that having genius or virtuosity gives one the right to loose your humility
or air your dirty
laundry. Bill
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