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At 12:22 PM 3/4/98 -0800, Sean Echevarria wrote: >Forget about Jordan - you just slagged Hellborg and Lane! yeeesh... > sinking further into the off-topic slag-o-rama..... It's not to say they are bad musicians, just that I found them really boring at that show. It was one of those "look how fast I can play!" sort of performances at one of the concerts they have after the NAMM shows, and didn't have a lot of music to go along with the athletics. And as is typical of such shows, the audience was filled with young players who ate it up, staring rapturously at the wiggling fingers, and generally encouraging them to make it worse. I guess I was one of those finger analyzers once, but somehow I managed to outgrow the music-as-track-and-field-event stage at some point. Now it sort of puts me to sleep. I saw Johann Hellborg with John McLaughlin and Trilok Gurtu about 10 years ago, and thought Hellborg was wonderful then. (of course, I actually liked fusion in those days, so I don't know how far to trust my own judgement...:-) ) Maybe he just needs the right sort of inspiration around him to really shine. Lane, on the other hand, for all the hype he gets, really didn't seem to have very many interesting ideas in his improvisations. It was all sort of monotonous and sterile and very, very, very fast, with little or no personality or stage presence. Maybe he is better in other settings, but there he was the sort of player who exerts powerful anti-spouse forces on the audience, causing serious relationship conflicts among all couples present. Now, if he had been wearing a chicken bucket on his head and using an assortment of novelty items to pick with, and maybe mixing it up with some bad break dancing, I think I would have enjoyed it a little more. My girlfriend certainly would have stuck around for more than 3 seconds..... kim ________________________________________________________ Kim Flint 408-752-9284 Mpact System Engineering kflint@chromatic.com Chromatic Research http://www.chromatic.com