Too Bad the JJT review wasn't written by someone (anyone) who was at least slightly familiar w/ the subject. Then again, even a poorly informed review is better than none at all.

And PLEASE don't confuse MM&W with anything avant garde. That makes for an embarrassing read.

Question: Are you guys paid in $'s or dumbass pills? Seriously, Matt Sullivan writes in his hype for the upcoming Richard Lloyd show, "Tom Verlaine played guitar as if he were pecking on a typewriter without regard for typos." What? That is just fucking ignorant. Maybe Matt should be confined to covering the Nashville karaoke scene. Oh, and Lee Stabert too. Just a suggestion.

Hey, someone dropped there prick.

could you please come retrieve him.
much obliged.

Did you try looking in your mouth?

your homosexual fantasies will get you no where with me big boy....kisses.

but at your request i took a peak, and it was nowhere to be found. so here we are...

I loved the way Verlaine played guitar on Marquee Moon. Nowhere did I say it was bad. But his solos are littered with "wrong" notes, thus the typo metaphor.

I don't know why I'm bothering responding to this.

what are "wrong notes?" Notes that YOU don't understand how they relate to the underlying chords?? Maybe, your ears need to open up a bit, so you can get beyond your 'Lightning 100' sense of melody and harmony. You must think Ornette coleman et. al played lots of 'wrong notes,'too. THIS is the problem with music writers in general. Judge something on it's own terms, not against the narrow confines of your narrow brain. Matt S., stop while you're ahead, for I fear you're just digging yourself a deeper hole.
Rock on, Nashville Dave!!!!

Where are the Critic's Picks?

Yeah Matt, quit writing and let the Rush Limbaugh of the nashville music scene have a crack. Then we'd have a continuous stream of pretentious bullshit, instead of an occasional self-righteous opinion. Rock on, Nashville Dicks!!!!

Good idea! Wait...Seth Graves & Lee Stabert already "write" for the Scene. Oh, well. Dim fucing bulbs.

I think saying Matt Sullivan has a "Lightning 100 sense of melody and harmony" goes down as the stupidest thing ever said on this blog. And that's saying a lot. But what does this dim fucing bulb know.

Judging from your writing, not much. Unless you consider that you write about yourself in every fucKing piece. And whatever TV show you adore.

Karaoke awaits!

Sullivan's sense of melody is about as far from "Lightning 100" as you can get. Fuck, most of what the dude listens to is metal and noise-oriented experimental stuff, from what I understand. At least that's what he talks about most of the time. (Matt correct me if I'm wrong.)

Matt's covered one of the shows I've played before, therefore I think it's safe to say he already IS covering the karaoke scene.

Yeah, Matt. School us on how rad you are.

braugh, i think you have your metaphors mixed up.
Rush Limbaugh and his ilk tend to take issue with/attack things they don't understand. Pres. Bush got elected because of this mindset. You know: 'i'm an average, ordinary joe, i can relate to the common man--f*ck the elitists, with all their book learnin'.' Do you not see how this mindset perpetuates the status quo and mediocrity? I think Hannah Arendt called it the 'banality of evil.' Not to overstate the argument. after all, we are just talking about
one of many of life's distractions: music.
Hell, i'm bored........

"attacking things you don't understand" is at the very heart of your lightning 100 point you made earlier. and it's also why your buddy Dave is going into frat morphin power ranger mode.

I dunno what that means, but here's my olive branch:
Using the rigid confines of the written pagw to describe something as ephemeral as music is ny no means an easy thing. A man much wiser than myself once said "writing about music is like dancing about archetecture." My point is, just 'cause you have feet doesn't mean that you can dance. Find your inner Arthur Murray.

Sorry. I type like Verlaine plays guitar.

"wrong notes" sounds less pretentious than dissonant sharp 13th notes, you folks need to brush up on your barthes and jung. puttin connotations to peoples word choice and shiz reveals stuff and such. avant garde just means pushing the guard forward, a military term originaly. the concept of an avant garde aesthetic is meaningless if there's no singular movement to push off(and there isn't a singular aesthetic movement anymore, unless you frame it as broke folks vs. those with funding), dave instaed of ripping on the writers start your own thing and show us how it is done. of course you won't have an editor to dumb down your stuff or tell you what to cover, meh

In general most solos are improvised aren't they? How is it possible to hit a wrong note when one is improvising?

By wrong notes I meant notes that are generally outside of the key signature, and again, nowhere did I say that was necessarily a bad thing.

what are you people even arguing about?