COTW – REAL TALK

jerk chicken Says:
January 14th, 2010 at 05:05
JACKY JASPER – STIRRED, NEVER SHAKEN

It’s such a relief to hear someone express these views at long last. It’s as if everyone in the world has intentionally gone stupid, and is choosing to ignore the elephant in the room: namely, the insulting ridicule of Jacky’s girlfriend, music. To add injury to that insult, the perpetrators are bragging and grandstanding like they’re the best that has ever been, adding all sorts of vanity and grandiosity into the mix.

You put your finger on it exactly: it’s all just a steaming pile of ‘cute’, choreographed, lick-ass culture that has totally lost sight of the reality of what music is all about. People are all to busy facebooking each other and living their own pathetic, voyeuristic little slices of celebrity to notice how ludicrous it’s gotten.

I’m delighted you’re taking a step back from the madness, and getting a live band out on the road. The world needs to see bands up on stage again, jamming for 40 minutes the way Miles and James Brown used to. Like Kool Keith says about the new jacks in the industry : their stage show is weak.

Those English interviewers couldn’t even poke fun coz the reality of what you were saying was too stark. There’s a ‘too cool for school’ attitude in England these days, but there’s bound to be some arrogance if your country basically conquered most of the world and invented nearly everything in it for the last 200 years.
Thanks for putting it down. Now where can I hear the radio show with Eric B that you mentioned?