Re: tibbetts&frisell (GP mag)

[Scott Hansen <scott-a-hansen@uiowa.edu>]

ted-thanks for the heads up on your letter (and the edited out version).
i've been going through my old GP mags, and back in the early 90's they
had a short section on "underground" guitarists ("notes from the 
underground" i think it was called). always interesting stuff to 
read. i stopped my subscription to GP in the fall, b/c i found that i 
barely read any of the articles, was generally uninterested in most 
of the stuff in there. to me,
the articles/magazine in general was more interesting 10+ yrs ago.
guess the classic scenario happened, the second i stop subscribing, 
the articles
got better? happens to me all the time.
s---
ps-guess i'll have to head down to the library to check out the 
previous few issues.


>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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