2 things...
- Holy good fuck.....did New Order just take a gig seriously? that was really really good. Even transmission didn't make me cringe.
2.I'm shocked at how blinkered some of my fellow orderites seem. I liked just about everything I heard on that show. Least fave was prob Faith wasserface, cos I really don't go much for that kind of souly/r+b thing. But my faves were son of dave ( I mean come ON, the man made entire tracks that held together fabulously with a couple of loop pedals, a harmonica and his gob, even if you thought it was pigshit, you gotta admit the talent) and accoustic ladyland, brilliant musicians....now fair enough, a 74 mins cd of that stuff would cause my brain to liquify, but I'm sure they do other things. I admit tho, that music of that type is really only of interest to other musicians and pretneious jazz cunts ( who are deeply hated by any decent jazzer I ever spoke to..."dinnerjacket, silent sitting, solo clapping dull as dishwater wankers" was the assessment of the average Jazz audience by a well respected jazz orchestra leader I know)....and even the muso's get bored and feck off to the bar after 20 mins. I do like the idea of people learning to be astonishing on their instruments. then decide to go mental and make a racket.....it's the opposite of NO, who with the exception of Steve can't play (by pro standards) for shite....yet turn out some of the most beautiful music man has ever known. What the noisey little kiddies need to learn is to play the nice stuff too, THEN make all the clever noise, but sadly there comes a point in a musicians ability where they truly DO vanish up there own hole.
I watched that happen to a fellow bassplyer from college, he could kick my ass, and it annoyed me, but I had it explained to me, that I was the bassplayer getting all the gigs cos I knew "how to fuck up and groove", and that I never ever picked the bass up between gigs or sessions, and the other chap had no life cos he played like 8 hrs a day. A few years after college he came back over from England with his band, every one of them a total virtuoso, every song total and complete pish.....imagine a noise like accoustic ladyland, but with idiotic John Zorn time and tempo changes every 3 bars. AAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHH