T2/Boomland...Memories of youth

[Jon Browne]

In article <3.0.1.32.19970623224701.00696f5c at mcmail.com>, Chris
Warburton <desdinova at EARTHLING.NET> writes
>Somebody got in before me in upbraiding JonB over his
>"jazz duffer" comment, but I always found the (modern/avant-garde) jazz
>world refreshingly free of age/class/style boundaries!
>
>ChrisW

I should have been clearer. jazz is cool. Of course.  I dig Bird
Coltrane, Mingus and I really like Armstrong (even after he sold out)
I'm also well up for future jazz like Tortoise and Sven Van Hees
hell, even drum 'n' bass pioneers like Photek and Bukem consider
themselves jazzmen. My idea of a jazz duffer is someone who never
accepted rock/pop in any form, to whom anything from Chuck Berry onwards
doesn't count, isn't music *at all*. How I expected you to discern that
from one dismissive comment, I don't know. D'oh!

the emphasis was on the duffer.

I, incidentally, am the psychedelic music duffer round my way. I find it
pretty amazing that people don't want to know which 60's garage band
Beck swiped Devil's Haircut from. but every time I say something like
"well, of course, the original by '60's Texan punk band the Little Boys
Blue was much better" people'e eyes just glaze over....

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Jon Browne