Re: tibbetts&frisell (was LOOPING BAND name)

[ArsOcarina@aol.com]

Howdy all,

Yeah, it was good to see a coupla major loopers in the press for a change.
I hadn't ever written to GP before. But I couldn't let their coverage of 
two
of my most favorite players go under-appreciated and unthanked. If we 
don't try to encourage press coverage for the likes of the Frisells, 
Torns, 
Tibbettses and Fripps out there (who have, at least, successfully acheived 
SOME visibility already) our own music will remain all the more obscure.

Funny thing is, they edited out the last paragraph I wrote, which read:

     >Keep it up. How 'bout a regular "from the fringes" 
     >column serving up tidbits on the likes of: Terje 
     >Rypdal, David Fiuczynski, David Torn, Nels Cline, 
     >Robert Fripp, Adrian Belew, Eliott Sharp, Nicky 
     >Skopelitis, Paul Dresher, Scott Johnson, Vernon 
     >Reid, John Abercrombie, Michael Brook, Daniel 
     >Lanois, Gary Lucas, Jim Thomas, Andre LaFosse, 
     >Eugene Chadbourne, Mike Keneally . . . sigh . . . 
     >the list could go on and on, but you get the idea. 
     >Even a regular sidebar for us serious "oddballs 
     >of the guitar" aficionados would be an interesting 
     >addition to GP.

I guess they like to get "thanks" but are less enthusiastic about outside 
"suggestions" of editorial direction. And, yes, I really did mention Andre 
in that list. Oh well.

Cheers!

tEd ® kiLLiAn

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