Comments on: Jason Collett - Here’s to Being Here! http://carlsandburgvisits.com/2008/01/24/jason-collett-heres-to-being-here/ Where We Play It By Ear Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:30:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Benji http://carlsandburgvisits.com/2008/01/24/jason-collett-heres-to-being-here/#comment-368 Benji Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:26:58 +0000 http://carlsandburgvisits.com/2008/01/24/jason-collett-heres-to-being-here/#comment-368 This I just found at pitchfork, regarding the review of Jason Collett's new album: "Less charitable ones will notice that he's pilfered Bob Dylan's vocal tics wholesale, evoking an alternate universe where The Basement Tapes were the beginning of a long unbroken collaboration, not a prelude to divergence. "Southern gentleman and your Bonaparte ways," he keens on "Roll on Oblivion", "no need to get philosophic," the last vowel going reedy and nasal." This I just found at pitchfork, regarding the review of Jason Collett’s new album:
“Less charitable ones will notice that he’s pilfered Bob Dylan’s vocal tics wholesale, evoking an alternate universe where The Basement Tapes were the beginning of a long unbroken collaboration, not a prelude to divergence. “Southern gentleman and your Bonaparte ways,” he keens on “Roll on Oblivion”, “no need to get philosophic,” the last vowel going reedy and nasal.”

]]> By: Sarah http://carlsandburgvisits.com/2008/01/24/jason-collett-heres-to-being-here/#comment-350 Sarah Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:37:57 +0000 http://carlsandburgvisits.com/2008/01/24/jason-collett-heres-to-being-here/#comment-350 I'm sorry I used the word heinously. I read your commentary several times, so I was aware that you were only referring to vocals. In fact, for that very reason I hoped you wouldn't take my comment as an insult to your taste. I only intended to express amusement that we have both heard Dylan's and Collett's voices but you have drawn a conclusion that I cannot possibly obtain. Please accept my apologies for the uneven tone of my sentence. Also, I take issue with your portrait of me as a Dylan devotee, since I never claimed to have (nor do I have) more than a general familiarity with his work, and therefore the sound of his voice. I suppose I should have realized that the casual Dylan fan is such a rare species that contrasting his work with newer music can often reasonably be assumed to constitute critical conservatism. I’m sorry I used the word heinously. I read your commentary several times, so I was aware that you were only referring to vocals. In fact, for that very reason I hoped you wouldn’t take my comment as an insult to your taste. I only intended to express amusement that we have both heard Dylan’s and Collett’s voices but you have drawn a conclusion that I cannot possibly obtain. Please accept my apologies for the uneven tone of my sentence.

Also, I take issue with your portrait of me as a Dylan devotee, since I never claimed to have (nor do I have) more than a general familiarity with his work, and therefore the sound of his voice. I suppose I should have realized that the casual Dylan fan is such a rare species that contrasting his work with newer music can often reasonably be assumed to constitute critical conservatism.

]]> By: Benji http://carlsandburgvisits.com/2008/01/24/jason-collett-heres-to-being-here/#comment-349 Benji Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:53:03 +0000 http://carlsandburgvisits.com/2008/01/24/jason-collett-heres-to-being-here/#comment-349 heinously? I'm glad you only 'think' so, because I 'think' if you take a listen to the album, you'll find that the intonations and the emphases he puts on words draw some comparisons to Dylan. I never implied any lyrical or instrumental comparisons, which is what I 'think' you are 'thinking'. on that note, I'm not one to deny Dylan of his status as national hero/poet of private grief. Certainly I wouldn't disparage him like so. But he is also a human being, void of any supernatural qualities. I suggest taking him off such a high pedestal or else you will constantly be disapointed with the fantastic, engaging, entertaining, stimulating music that is out there to discover and love. heinously? I’m glad you only ‘think’ so, because I ‘think’ if you take a listen to the album, you’ll find that the intonations and the emphases he puts on words draw some comparisons to Dylan. I never implied any lyrical or instrumental comparisons, which is what I ‘think’ you are ‘thinking’.

on that note, I’m not one to deny Dylan of his status as national hero/poet of private grief. Certainly I wouldn’t disparage him like so. But he is also a human being, void of any supernatural qualities. I suggest taking him off such a high pedestal or else you will constantly be disapointed with the fantastic, engaging, entertaining, stimulating music that is out there to discover and love.

]]> By: Sarah http://carlsandburgvisits.com/2008/01/24/jason-collett-heres-to-being-here/#comment-348 Sarah Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:39:42 +0000 http://carlsandburgvisits.com/2008/01/24/jason-collett-heres-to-being-here/#comment-348 I think you have heinously misapplied the term "Dylanesque" to this singer. I think you have heinously misapplied the term “Dylanesque” to this singer.

]]> By: Joe http://carlsandburgvisits.com/2008/01/24/jason-collett-heres-to-being-here/#comment-347 Joe Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:08:48 +0000 http://carlsandburgvisits.com/2008/01/24/jason-collett-heres-to-being-here/#comment-347 What about Motor Motel Love Songs? What about Motor Motel Love Songs?

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