Comments on: John Vanderslice, I Hardly Knew Ye http://passionweiss.com/2009/05/19/john-vanderslice-i-hardly-knew-ye/ I'm a Bartender, I Do Great Things. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:36:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Scott T. Sterling http://passionweiss.com/2009/05/19/john-vanderslice-i-hardly-knew-ye/#comment-104295 Scott T. Sterling Wed, 27 May 2009 22:48:37 +0000 http://passionweiss.com/2009/05/19/john-vanderslice-i-hardly-knew-ye/#comment-104295 Having met JV a couple of times (via my buddy Graham Macrae), I can say that he's one of the most interesting and downright GOOD people I've ever met even remotely connected to the music 'industry.' He's like an old-fashioned troubadour, living on the road, playing anywhere/everywhere, and just totally open to the world around him. Oh, and meet him once, and he'll remember your name forever. It's totally freaky. Having met JV a couple of times (via my buddy Graham Macrae), I can say that he’s one of the most interesting and downright GOOD people I’ve ever met even remotely connected to the music ‘industry.’ He’s like an old-fashioned troubadour, living on the road, playing anywhere/everywhere, and just totally open to the world around him. Oh, and meet him once, and he’ll remember your name forever. It’s totally freaky.

]]> By: Disco Vietnam http://passionweiss.com/2009/05/19/john-vanderslice-i-hardly-knew-ye/#comment-102130 Disco Vietnam Tue, 19 May 2009 19:55:30 +0000 http://passionweiss.com/2009/05/19/john-vanderslice-i-hardly-knew-ye/#comment-102130 This quote is very interesting. To hold that kind of perspective, to be dumbfounded by captured performance, implies he doesn't approach music on musical terms. If you sent Vanderslice back in time 100 years he couldn't be a musician. This is something a studio rat like Trent Reznor has managed to avoid but a Dr. Dre finds himself spiraling toward at terminal velocity. This quote is very interesting. To hold that kind of perspective, to be dumbfounded by captured performance, implies he doesn’t approach music on musical terms. If you sent Vanderslice back in time 100 years he couldn’t be a musician.

This is something a studio rat like Trent Reznor has managed to avoid but a Dr. Dre finds himself spiraling toward at terminal velocity.

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