I've lost my trumpet

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I can't work out whether this is a) the worst kind of smug anti-rockist sneering* b) actually quite amusing. The song definitely hasn't got any better though.

*What do I even MEAN here?

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

this î tho is a VERY weird mix of clumsiness and care -- given i have no animus against 60s white kids "doing" soul qwuite badly (bcz what they can't do moves off into something the black originals DON'T do) (it became the psych "freakout" kinda, a music playing off dodgy assumption that "being black" is being wild and uncontrolled -- exactly misreading j.brown and j.hendrix and free jazz -- as necessary permission actually to BE WILD in a curiously unprecedented way), er given all that, i am interested in the species "doing [xx] badly" as permission to end up "doing y which is new" --> but i'm not sure this reaches y (whatever it would be)

[mcarratala.livejournal.com]

I was thinking about something like this watching Foals on the Culture Show yesterday, talking about their African influences, which obviously just end up as trebly indie band sound. On the one hand, it would serve little purpose if they actually did do a passable impression a Congolese band, on the other it would be nice if some new was created in the gap whether through accident or design (in the way I think Talking Heads actually did do, in their moment).

You're right about 60s British music and the misreading of black pop (the downside, I'd argue, would be Joe Cocker).

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

and the downside of joe cocker being (correctly) acknowledged as a downside is paul weller!

[koganbot]

Er, Hendrix was reading the Brits rather than vice versa and reading 'em pretty accurately (i.e., was closer to them than to J.B. or to Coleman). Where do McLaughlin and Miles fit in? Miles' trumpet from Bitches Brew through Agharta made a strange negotiation between ebullient and sullen, and if you think of the Brit boys as doing the r&b/soul but with a jazz personality I'm not so sure they were getting it wrong. That is, I think some bop and postbop have their punk impulses, even if the impulses were steered in different directions from, say, the Electric Eels or the Sex Pistols, that is, into dauntingly angry competence rather than throwing lye in your eyes.