Rocky Road

RE: Uhh...

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In Reply to: RE: Uhh... posted by halfnote on April 12, 2008 at 14:53:29

>You point about free markets and giving the public what it wants is also fair. But giving the public "what it wants" has rarely been tantamount to artistic achievement.

And?

So what?

In this case I think the 'artistic achievement,' if that's a term that's applicable at all, goes to Scorsese. But then this WAS a film review that was being discussed, a concert film...not a concert. Right?

I think that there may well be some credit due Scorsese for producing something that might actually capture the attention of people who are long sick of both the Rolling Stones' records, but also their tours of football stadiums. I think that's an achievement in itself, since so many have written them off in so many ways, for so long. Someone took the same exact product they've been offering for decades, put it in a smaller venue, and did something with it that, chances are, nobody saw coming. As tiring as the prospect of seeing the Rolling Stones in an arena/stadium setting would seem to me, this may well have piqued the curiosity of those who would otherwise have little or no interest.

And I believe that's what comes through in the NY Times review that has provoked the scrap above. But then I come at this from the point of view that the reviewer in question isn't really interested in writing about rock music...

...or else that's what he'd still be doing.

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