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Re: OT: The Police on Tour
My criteria is to try and asess as best i can what the musician/
artist/songwriter is trying to do and try to evaluate it on that
level........ In other words, when i see the stones in a small
stadium in montana, i'm not going to evaluate them the same way i
would seeing shawn colvin in an intimate listening room or bela fleck
and the flectones in a theater.
Even beyond the location, i really try not to weigh apples against
oranges. What are you trying to do? As best as i can absorb it
intellectually and emotionally, spiritually, sexually,
whatever....does that work? What i hate most about music critics,
particularly the ones in the ubiquitous and amazingly cookie cutter
content "alternative" newspapers, is that they tend to evaluate
artists based on what THEY think the artist SHOULD be doing, and it's
usually punk rock. And instrumental music.....they've got no idea
what to do with that. Complain about the cover art.......
objectivity is a bitch sometimes.....the world is much easier when
you don't make that kind of effort. The effort to try and get beyond
just "do i love this or not..." And though all of that is kind of
from the head, so to speak......i suppose it ultimately comes down to
what moves you the most on any and all levels.
jf