Jazz: The Music of Unemployment: Live Dirge

Saturday, July 07, 2007

Live Dirge

I'm all for the cause, of course, but if you really wanted to save the planet, couldn't you at least sign up some halfway decent acts?

(Look, folks, they're doing that "band against a wall" pose. Need I say more?)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...: jesus christ, I could've gotten better live acts. And there many sound engineer problems today as well. what a farce; 5:43 PM
Anonymous said...: jesus christ, I could've gotten better live acts. And there many sound engineer problems today as well. what a farce; 5:43 PM
matt said...: If these "live acts" were all that I could listen to, I would embrace global warming and pray with Jim Morrison for the whole shithouse to go up in flames. And I use the phrase "live acts" very loosely.

This opinion was brought to you by Ysjbeomi, the Norse goddess of word verification.; 1:14 PM

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An introduction

A sampling of some of the better things I have written for this blog:

"We are the world, and we suck" (on the death of Michael Jackson)

"I forgot to remember to write this post" (on Elvis Presley)

"The world we have lost" (on the fetishization of audio media)

"...the adventure ends" (on the IJG east coast tour, January 2007)

My interview with Brian Watson of the LA-based jazz / new music group Watts Ensemble

My interview with Rob Waller, of the LA-based country band, I See Hawks in LA

A post about how my elementary school students listened to new jazz

"RIAA breaks guitars, and music in general" (a response to the Joel Tenenbaum case)

Posts on the IJG Netherlands tour (2007): part one, part two, and part three

"No one dances in New York" (my response to a Nate Chinen critique of the IJG)

"The impossibility of the avant-garde" (a brief critique of the idea of revolutionary art)

"The wages of profanity and political commentary" (about how it is still possible to go too far in jazz)