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In Reply to: Lots of chocolate-covered noses... posted by Jonathan Kranz on May 3, 2007 at 06:47:06:
Agree, unfortunately, on the asskissing aspects of this.
This could have been a really excellent documentary and was not.Much much more of a Puff Piece than it needed to be, and it's not due to the subject matter.
Maybe Ertegun passing away during what must have been the editing period of this infomercial had a lot to do with backing off the negatives.But not a "documentary" by any standard.... more of a "Behind The Music" appreciation piece.
Did the world need Foreigner--- hm.
Is that a rhetorical question ?
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It's the only test pressing I have. At least the music is ummm...something. I guess it's aah'ight!
Bottom line is that music appreciation is subjective. One man's trash is another's treasure. Doesn't make one right and the other wrong. Just makes 'em different. Enjoy your jazz knowing that i won't be in competition with you to buy from the same used LP bin. That keeps the prices down. That's good for all of us.
Life has lots of trials and lots of music to help us through them.
My post wasn't really ---at all--- about Foreigner, about rock, or pop, or jazz, or any music in fact...I was posting to agree that this program was an unqualified bit of fulsome press-agentry, and not at all a 'documentary'.
But there should be certain things sane adult men can agree on.
"But there should be certain things sane adult men can agree on.Foreigner, for instance."
Dammit, Jaydee! You made me spit a mouthful of Earl Gray all over my laptop.
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