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

[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.