..but to be truly free it has to have room to morph into a jam band if that's where it goes. If the jam band tag becomes a
stricture, or those things start to excert an influence beyond the music, the freedom has gone... :o)
** ya know, i see your point. but to me, the jam band thing isn't so free . . . i think it's okay that people who do free improv go there, but if that's all it is, i don't think it's free. i say this because part of the freedom thing can be in the intent to subvert the paradigm - - bass players don't have to play just bass lines, for instance; i'm not so sure that jam band stuff can deal with that. i guess it all comes down to your own definition . . .
Absolutely - hearing him be a bit rubbish didn't in anyway diminish my respect for him, it just meant that I was made rather
starkly aware of the suppositions that I'd brought to the gig as a listener, and was left wanting... I guess if they'd all
fallen about laughing, said 'sorry, that was crap' and started again, I'd have enjoyed it a bit more... :o)
** sure, but there have been times when i thought a free gig was awful (or that i was awful in it) and others who were playing or the audience thought it was great . . . so we just carry the disappointment home with us and hope for another day. (sorta like any creative endeavor . . . )
stig
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