I would not disagree that an appreciation for what came before is paramount to fully understand any kind of art. That said, I continue to find fault with the implied assertion that the only people worthy of truly judging Pink Floyd or Zeppelin were people who were of a certain age or mindset when that music first broke out. Never ever did I imply or assert any sort of extraordinary 'worth' to someone who
was there and
was interested in the groundbreaking music happening just then before their eyes and ears.
Holzman can use words describing his rational and subjective reasoning to defend why he likes or dislikes something and as usual, I cannot, eh?
It's a completely valid, reasonable point which you choose to characterize falsely, for one...and then use it to plant some sort of egotism-flag on my forehead.
Understand please, I just was trying to make the point that THERE's where the difference in perception is from, in some cases.
Here, the case of Jimmy Page's KNOCKOUT perfectly composed solo on SwTH and/or various Floyd bits (FTR, I was not a fan of DSOTM when it came out; simple reason, it didn't rock and I was a irredeemable 'rocker') are being called the work of a hacks and shit like that...
This unique perception that timing and luck gave me, is also a completely valid
reason, a pretty effing obvious
given, why someone in the absence of a multiplicity of other 'filters' they'd developed while having (likely shitloads of)
other music appeal to them in a particular chronology, (like the 'formula' Mary B once had for getting someone to get into Nick Cave...'
Don't listen to album 'A' before album 'B' because then you will hate him' if anyone here can recall)...this is why someone's experience will be
UNIQUE to someone's who's not had all the music that followed "Stairway To Heaven' or 'Foxy Lady' or even 'Free Bird' or 'Green Grass & High Tides', standing collosally
in the way, in fact impeding a
more freely subjective assessment.
'Unique', is NOT saying that now
there are 'the only people worthy of truly judging' a form of art.
I'm saying that THIS is the reason why it's likely I'm appreciating several pieces that HAVE been overplayed and are therefore now worthless and passè curiosity pieces in some eyes.
Those of us who heard the broadcast of 'Hendrix In Sweden' that night were still a blank slate...unless ma-a-aybe you'd heard (and dug) what Magic Sam (and very few others) was already playing in 1964.
I hadn't. Just caught up with Sam the week before last.
Reference points for Hendrix, for his
type of music, right then, were very rare...
I am not going to go so far as to say that it is all purely subjective, because I don't believe art appreciation is truly as subjective as some claim, but to narrow down the list of plausible critics of any art form to a certain group of a certain age is ridiculous.Never said it and neither did thorn.
And this is WHY I joked with the term 'Age-ist' when he wrote that!
And still you couldn't fathom that
to narrow down the list of plausible critics of any art form to a certain group of a certain age is nowhere NEAR what I was wanting to get across.
Just that I (like everyone else here thinks of themselves, probably) think that my musical tastes are pretty fucking good.....
or at least then, the most important person to satisfy when I pick music , namely
ME, well of fucking
COURSE I really truly enjoy the things that I pick to listen to.
And honestly I give absolutely not an iota of a fuck what someone else thinks.
Especially when any sort of a discussion (when in fact someone even addresses me here anymore) is distorted to shit by what I've got to believe is someone's manifestation of their insecurities of having their values set questioned, even in the guise of
the exact same type of reasoned convo which Ken Holzman has here like,
all the goddamned time.
Oh!
The Sedaka by-laws compelled you of course
Aah, now I feel better.
