acsgjjp@sunybcs.UUCP (Jim Poltrone) (10/19/84)
> Good starter stuff? Give Keith Jarrett's Koln Concert or Pat Metheny's > New Chatauqua a try. I first heard the title track from "New Chatauqua" this summer on WRXT, an album rock station which has, unfortunately, changed its format to contemporary top-40. (ARGGH!) It blew me away; it was so beautiful. I would not have heard it on the other album rock station, WGRQ, which plays mostly heavy metal (double ARGGH!). To me, heavy metal is mindless: bang your head, bang the guitar, bang your fist, etc. (I'll probably get a few flames about that; I have my Halon ready just in case :-) .) I would rather see our kids listen to triple-Z jazz than listen to bands like--dare I mention them?--Twisted Sister, Motley Crue, Judas Priest, and... (heck, I'll spare you and stop here). To sum up: listen to New Chatauqua. It's GOOD STUFF! -- Jim Poltrone (a/k/a Poltr1, the Last of the Raster Blasters) uucp: [decvax,watmath,rocksvax]!sunybcs!acsgjjp ARPAnet, CSnet: acsgjjp%buffalo@CSNET-RELAY
jackson@curium.DEC (Seth Jackson) (07/07/85)
>I've been a Yes fan for many years. In the last few years I've become a >diehard Pat Metheny fan. It seems to me that there are similarities in >their music. Any thoughts on this? I read a Pat Metheny interview a couple of years ago in which Pat Metheny mentioned several times that he considers himself to be "the Jerry Garcia of jazz" and that his band is "the Grateful Dead of jazz." He never mentioned Yes. I'm not sure exactly what he means by this, because I don't see much similarity between him and the Dead, except for the drums/space jams that constitutes about 10% of a Dead concert. Anyone else? __ "We used to play for silver, now we play for life..." Seth Jackson dec-curium!jackson