So just how 2 faced are you?

bandman322 · Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 6:45 am Post subject: So just how 2 faced are you?

I made a post on another thread that I apologized for because I said something that I didn't think was nice. It was about a pro player that I really should admire -- after all, he has the big recording contract and I don't. Then I started thinking about just how two faced I really am.

I've made it pretty clear over the past couple years that I'm not a big fan of Wynton Marsalis. I do think he is a great player, and I wish I could play like him, but I just don't care for him. That one is hard to explain, especially since I really like his father and brother.

I also have made it pretty clear that I don't care for Chris Botti's playing. Once again, I have to admit that he's a good player, just not my cup of tea so to speak.

But last night I thought about it. If either of them were to come here to Lafayette I would buy tickets and go hear them play. I don't know if that is really two faced, but I'd be there just like most of the musicians in my area.

So who is it that you really don't care for, but you would be in line to buy tickets for a concert if it was in your city?

I confessed and now I feel a little better. Now it's your turn.
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mafields627 · Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 8:37 am Post subject:

Miles Davis.
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You'd be at those concerts so that you wouldn't be "that guy" who didn't show up at the concert.

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elExtranjero · Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 9:19 am Post subject: Re: So just how 2 faced are you?

mafields627 · Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 11:13 am Post subject:

I've got an even better one: Michael Moore, but only if I didn't have to buy my own ticket. Same with Clinton's book -- I would read it if I didn't have to buy it.
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GMacDaddyTPO · Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 12:25 pm Post subject:

Louis Armstrong. I appriciate what he did for the music, but his playing is just not my thing, and his singing is worse.

I also think Patrick Hession is a little sloppy...IMHO, not to say I wouldn't give my right thumb to play like him. Or Louis for that matter.

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icebraker613 · Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 1:43 pm Post subject:

Drum Corps. It's not that i don't like it, it's just i'm not that interested in it. But if there was a really close show near me, i'd spend the money to see what the hull-a-ba-loo is about.
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plp · Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 1:50 pm Post subject:

OK, don't ostrasize me or anything, but... Maynard.

And I will be 2 faced, and WILL go see him if I am still working in Baton Rouge on Feb. 22.

I love his Roulette recordings, and envy his ability shamelessly, but the past 2 times I saw him, well, in my opinion the Mangione concert was much better, and Chuck had the flu. He also had better intonation.

Dale Proctor · Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 2:38 pm Post subject:

I'm 2-faced when it comes to Maynard. I don't really like screamin', but I went to see him a couple of years ago. Good concert! Maybe I'm 2-faced only when it comes to trumpet players, though. I sure wouldn't go to see anyone else I didn't really care for.
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Adonias Wondwessen · Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 3:10 pm Post subject:

Uh..I think...wow....I cannot think of any...seriously. I know that if I goto someone's concert, I would WANT to be there. Maybe the fact that I have never been to a live concert in my life has something to do with it. Or that it just seems like a huge waste of money...
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bandman322 · Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 4:24 pm Post subject:

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I wouldn't go to see Maynard or Botti. I don't listen to what I don't like, and I don't hear much that I don't like (in the trumpet "realm" at least).

trjeam · Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 7:40 pm Post subject:

if i was ever to go to a artist's concert who I don't care it would simply be for either two reasons:

1. Either a Friend dragged me along

or

2. curiosity

I think that #2 applies for most of us.
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Dave Mickley · Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 9:50 pm Post subject:

I very rarely attend any concerts any more since the ticket prices have sky rocketed. I would much rather take the wife out to eat and pick up a cd or two and listen to the artist any time I wanted to and still come out ahead. maybe I'm just to old and conservative. Dave
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tom turner · Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 10:29 pm Post subject:

Well, I'm certainly NOT two-faced . . . and others around my town would vouch for that statement too!

Last week, when the guy didn't know I could hear him, I heard him tell someone,