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Check it out, a surprisingly good write-up of BH…as one might expect, the LA Times has decent arts (and sports!) coverage.
I was on the lookout for the article, ’cause the author had mentioned it in another piece about Spike Lee’s remake of the Korean noir flick “Oldboy.” Yes, Bruce is involved in that, as well. (For those keeping track, BH has done material for Spike’s “Clockers,” “Bamboozled,” “Kobe…,” “Red Hook…,” and now this.)
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It was nice to see some grit and attitude from Bruce there. Usually I feel like it’s spun as “aw shucks, oh well.”
“The story of my life for many years now is ‘I had no idea,’ ” Hornsby said. “You know, like ‘He does that? I had no idea.’ ”
Interesting article.
I’m curious about other Board members opinion about Bruce’s use of the line “Nobody cares and why should they?”
Bruce was probably in a bad mood. Or he was just being a smartass. Or both.
In (not)all seriousness, the state of American music these days is somewhat blech, so…?
I tried to get him to play “The Changes” Friday night, to no avail. But I know that no one cares, and really, why should they? 😆
To expound a bit further, at the Rutland show BH brought up the example of Bobby McFerrin and that most people just know him for, as BH said, a quirky “but very well-done novelty hit.” The reality of the situation is that McFerrin, like BH, is a serious student of Americana and Western Classical. The early hits were both the best and worst things to happen to both of them, and at the same time in 80’s pop history. The hits provided “capital,” so to speak, so that those resources could be used to fund other excursions. The dilemma of the pop artist in a sometimes shallow medium. (I use “pop” in its largest sense, as referring to all American popular music since the advent of jazz and all offspring not related to the Western “Classical” field. Or Indian classical, but I digress…:geek:) Wes Montgomery and George Benson decided to cover lame tunes, Quincy Jones (and Oliver Nelson) arranging for TV and film, as well as producing. Zappa just wrote more novelty tunes. Etc, etc.
When my friend and I were at the bar before the show, a couple of ladies our age sat down and we talked about Bruce — they were just going for something to do, they wanted to know what our favorite songs were (chuckle), and they couldn’t remember any BH tunes, they “just like his music.” Yes, that’s what they said. 🙄
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