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It sure looks like an easy
job . Put a new album on the
turntable . Crank the volume
control just this side of full
, steam ahead. Get comfor
, table. Lean back. Think
about it a little. Glance
over the liner notes. Write
down what you think about
the music.
A critic. Isn't everyone?
Music is a difficult thing
to understand. Music is both
mechanical and emotional.
As for the mechanical side
of music my knowledge is
limited. I am not what you
would call a musician's
critic. In fact I do not try
to be a musician's critic.
My only formal training as a
musician came in grade
school and high school
under teachers who know
just about as little as I do.
I do play a mean Kazoo.
At best my knowledge of
music is only slightly above
average. But really that
is not important. I am a
listener's critic.
I view music's emotion
as the most important thing,
It is not enough to have a
fired-up band, a dramatic
lead singer-frontman, or a
bleeding ears guitar player.
Proficiency and facades can
take one only so far.
Without emotion music is
just noise.
Still, emotionless music
can pass itself off as music.
It happens all the time.
Look a; Boston. Or Kan
sas, or Electric light Or
chestra. They have come
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the computer age. Don't
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kind of music, er not it
is catchy and it is clever but
it lacks any measure of
honest emotion
And then there is the
emotional musician-the ar
tist. These artists do not
play music, they feel it.
Consider Eric Clapton, Joni
Mitchell, Eob Dylan, Duane
Allmann, the early Rolling
Stones, the Band, some of
Led Zeppelin's music. It is
more than music, more than
black notes on white paper.
The innovations of these
artists came naturally not
through proficiency, but
out of need-the need to ex
press a certain feeling,
emotion or mood. In msuic
creativity is the child of
emotion. Some of it was
neither.
How do you describe
music and emotion in a cri
tical review? Looking back I
realize that I was not really
a critic that I wanted to be.
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Sure I am a grouch but I
like music and I like good
noise. But it was not that
I wanted to play God and
say"this is good music and
this fcn't." More than that I
wanted to share with other
music lovers what I felt was
good music.
The following are soma
of the albums I have heard
in the hst year I think are
worthy of serious listening.
some 01 u is music and
some of it is noise. All of
it is good. You think I am
going to tell you which is
which? Sorry, those days
are over.
One more thing, this
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Do not try to make more
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