Interviews, is this really what we want in our Music collection? - 04/03/10 10:57 AM
Rather than derail the Metatronic thread with talk of potential interview DVD's, I've taken the liberty in creating this post.
In effect I agree with Alec’s view regarding a DVD interview, that in essence a disc with John discussing his past work on The Garden, TGS, and IMW is not an essential use of his creative abilities at present, or having his time channeled off into a lengthy retrospective direction, and the obvious window for any such release was to connect with these remasters while they were a hot topic. As Peter also say’s, an interview as a product is a momentary thing, even for the most dedicated amongst us that seek to acquire all aspects of John’s work or his thoughts in many forms, it’s eventually an item that’s destined to become something that’s just ‘to have and to hold’.
Yes, there’s a part of me that wants 99% of the main focus of Johns activity to continue to be on the release of all the promising future Music projects, (but we really should let him have at least 1% of the time off for a few days annual holiday ).
You can’t exactly dance or hum along to John just talking about something on disc, or can you? and I also can’t imagine why it would take a 2X disc set (as was proposed) for each album to be covered, though I am very intrigued as to why, and I’d hate to miss something important, but I’d also rather for any definite release to be a much more compact document than that initially proposed.
’81 to ’85 is a special time for a lot of us with John’s music, whether we grew up with the albums of that time as children, teenagers, adults, or discovered these works for the first time many years later when they had become merely ‘history’. Its forever a magical period where an artist carved out his own individual path and took us on a journey through many seasons, and that two-year gap between albums seemed so painfully long when I was young, and sure, for some of us there were some lows along with the highs, but, John’s pastoral journey and why he took it is something that I’d love to hear about from the older artist now.
There are some pieces scattered about it here and there, but, (and again a plea here), if it were to be treated as an actual artistic multimedia project by the man himself rather than just given a boring ‘talking head’ style get in front of a camera treatment, I really don’t like the idea of ‘an interview’, can’t we have something more in tune with the ambition of Johns work, like a beautifully put together film to enhance our (already proven) enjoyment of that music of so long ago, not unlike a treasure map leading you on a journey to it. There’s still a few more 30th anniversaries to come, if there’s a real will for it then we have time ahead for such thing’s.
In effect I agree with Alec’s view regarding a DVD interview, that in essence a disc with John discussing his past work on The Garden, TGS, and IMW is not an essential use of his creative abilities at present, or having his time channeled off into a lengthy retrospective direction, and the obvious window for any such release was to connect with these remasters while they were a hot topic. As Peter also say’s, an interview as a product is a momentary thing, even for the most dedicated amongst us that seek to acquire all aspects of John’s work or his thoughts in many forms, it’s eventually an item that’s destined to become something that’s just ‘to have and to hold’.
Yes, there’s a part of me that wants 99% of the main focus of Johns activity to continue to be on the release of all the promising future Music projects, (but we really should let him have at least 1% of the time off for a few days annual holiday ).
You can’t exactly dance or hum along to John just talking about something on disc, or can you? and I also can’t imagine why it would take a 2X disc set (as was proposed) for each album to be covered, though I am very intrigued as to why, and I’d hate to miss something important, but I’d also rather for any definite release to be a much more compact document than that initially proposed.
’81 to ’85 is a special time for a lot of us with John’s music, whether we grew up with the albums of that time as children, teenagers, adults, or discovered these works for the first time many years later when they had become merely ‘history’. Its forever a magical period where an artist carved out his own individual path and took us on a journey through many seasons, and that two-year gap between albums seemed so painfully long when I was young, and sure, for some of us there were some lows along with the highs, but, John’s pastoral journey and why he took it is something that I’d love to hear about from the older artist now.
There are some pieces scattered about it here and there, but, (and again a plea here), if it were to be treated as an actual artistic multimedia project by the man himself rather than just given a boring ‘talking head’ style get in front of a camera treatment, I really don’t like the idea of ‘an interview’, can’t we have something more in tune with the ambition of Johns work, like a beautifully put together film to enhance our (already proven) enjoyment of that music of so long ago, not unlike a treasure map leading you on a journey to it. There’s still a few more 30th anniversaries to come, if there’s a real will for it then we have time ahead for such thing’s.