Dave Weckl Band in Rome

[robertopeland]

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[wolfgang.at]

OMG, I have no words for what I?ve seen/heard yesterday at the DWB-gig. Dave was absolutely amazing ! As Fuse said, Weckl must be from Mars (beyond all doubt) ...

[FuseU1]

] drumhead [ - knew you'd be floored...glad you were able to see it!

When asked at a recent clinic Weckl said he'd love to play all over the south and midwest, places he never gets out to but there's not enough of an audience to make such stops economically feasible. "The only places I can make a living is the east and west coasts, Europe, Australia and Japan."
Guess I was lucky to see the clinic!

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">And this, my friends, is the standard answer of every fusion artist/band that's out there, as to the sad state of the music industry here in the good ole US of A...Gambale Trio, Planet X, you name it. [Thx to Frank for at least doing a couple of southern dates]. Only groups such as Metheny's, Chick's, & Sanborn's seem to be able to do it, Sanborn being the closest thing to "smooth jazz," altho live it's at a very strong level, & very enjoyable, unlike a lot of the sell-out SJ clones [NTM because he was also born in FL!]. Besides, he's [DS] one of the fathers of SJ, & SJ that's actually good. Holdsworth has been able to get down south only twice or so in the last twenty years!

We need to beef up the music programs in the schools, if it still even exists, per se. Not meaning to 'ruin the mood / rain on the parade [img]graemlins/rain.gif[/img] ,' or sound cosmic, or like Nostradamus or the doom-n-gloom forecast guy [img]graemlins/hmmm.gif[/img] , but some great philosophers of the past & present have remarked that one of the first signs of doomed societies in past history is the bastardization, ignoring, neglect, & ruination of the arts, & music as music in particular.

Okay, on with your usual lives again. [img]graemlins/beer.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/pizza.gif[/img] ;u) =p

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ April 22, 2004 01:59 PM: Message edited by: FuseU1 ]</font>