"There's a fine line between repeating yourself and having your own style. At some point style morphs into cliché. So I think you have to challenge the audience to expect new material and then they will challenge you back to producing new material. And I'm glad to say I have those kind of fans at this point."
2. "style can and does evolve" In response to Reply # 0
this is hard for me cos i'm in love with style, the idea of style, what it can represent and signify.
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4. "style should tell you" In response to Reply # 3
when, where and who with.
how something is done is the style, and it conveys when you did it, where you did it and with whom.
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6. "why is when the only variable?" In response to Reply # 5
even the smallest of hoods have different cliques.
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8. "place and who your with can change." In response to Reply # 7
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9. "Doesn't that open you up to becoming appropriative though?" In response to Reply # 8
Not necessarily, but having seen so many come to NY then bounce back home, their NY style ends up being the least definitive, and most aping. Is it their style evolving, or them embracing other styles?
10. "When was that quote from?" In response to Reply # 0 Sun Sep-22-13 08:58 PM by lonesome_d
It IS a good quote, and knowing a few of his fans I can see what he means... he has a fair number of casual fans who call in to request 1952 Vincent on their local AAA World Cafe affiliate, but he also has a good number who buy his records.
That said, while he's never been afraid of left turns (Liege & Lief, sort of; Rock On; Morris On; Strict Tempo; Industry to name a few) he's got a very distinctive style whether acoustic or electric... whenever he releases a new album I can usually figure out it's his new song even before the vocals hit. That's kinda why I want to know what year the quote was from.
*edit* reminds me of what my wife says about my beer... every batch I cook is different but somehow she says it still tastes like a Dan beer.
I heard the non-single from it on WXPN a lot last winter and thought it was good enough but certainly not exceptional. Good things happen to bad people, I think?
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