RE: innocent pleasures: was recommended listening/frisell

["MIKO" <m-i-k-o@attbi.com>]

I will confess all of my influences!  If and when it ever matters!  The 
only
reason I make music is because of the musician I love who cam before me.  
Do
I have to narrow down to anything less than everyone you can name?  Even
people who play bagpipes, spoons, tracheotomy holes, burnt wooden spoons,
and rusty toy xylophones run over by trucks backing out of driveways...  
LOL
Could we ever narrow down by style, or instrument- anything other than
quality, style, commitment, and intention- when falling in love with music
and being siren-sung into the experience of music to point point where we
scream "HE DID THIS TO ME" like a woman joyously shouting for her epidural?

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Shirkey [mailto:jcshirke@midway.uchicago.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 2:42 PM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: innocent pleasures: was recommended listening/frisell


>
>isn't it interesting how so many musicians get angry when you
>point out someone you think they were influenced by?

We had a similar discussion on the jazz guitar list. Personally, I'd
take it as the highest compliment if someone told me he could hear
the influence of 'x', 'y', or 'z' in my playing. It's one thing to
say in a derogatory tone, "Oh, you just sound like a 'so and so'
clone". It's quite another thing for a listener to hear and
appreciate specific influences in your playing--for one thing, it
means they are paying close attention to what you're doing!

Jeff