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I used to hate
instrumental music; having to hear any instrumental music that wasn’t
either jazz or real live classical music really pissed me off, if you want
to know the truth about it. I’d hear these bands
pretending they were using novel time signatures when in fact they were
just avoiding 4/4 and counting out notes on their fingers or toes, and I’d
smell a rat. You could imagine their practice sessions: “You do the
first one five times, then the seven-note one eight times, then back to
the first one for three times, and then the slow part starts, and we do
that ten times or so until somebody gets tired or needs to use the bathroom.”
Critics would find similarities to jazz in these bands; I guess a critic
will find anything if he’s looking hard enough.
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