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Vernon Reid Interview
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Posted by: Source Audio | Posted in: Artist / Heroes,
I was browsing through Guitar Player's online magazine, and lo and behold I came upon this interview with Hot Hand user Vernon Reid.
http://www.guitarplayer.com/story.asp?sectioncode=4&storycode=16591
I like his discussion of the idea of "fusion" - which Reid equates as a "dirty" word amongst today's musicians.
After thinking about it, can there be an innovation without a "fusion" of ideas? In a music class I took at UCLA, the instructor was showing us how the popular "Bo Diddley beat" is an Afro-Cuban rhythmic idea. What if musicians had the idea that any cross-pollination of these two styles was sacrilige? Interestingly enough, an article on Bo's infamous beat is also on Guitar Player online: http://www.guitarplayer.com/story.asp?sectioncode=7&storycode=14254
I think we have all benefitted that they didn't.
It's the same with the term "progressive". It will always conjure up images of Goblins and bombastic over-complicated songs and arrangements (someone I knew once referred to the "progressive" rock movement as "storybook rock").
But - were not The Police a "fusion" band, as well as a "progressive" band? Was not "Sgt. Pepper's" a "progressive" album? When in the 1950's, youth culture finally had its own form of music, Rock and Roll, was this not "progressive"?
My long winded point is, that these 2 words are actually your friends.
Who wants the same old thing?
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