New Wave Etiquette
As youth’s music reaches ever onward and outward in an unswerving effort to unite the world, this time by virtue of being equally obnoxious to everyone, so must music criticism cast off the chains of discretion. The New Wave is here, and with it a more than adequate amount of flotsam and debris, all of which must be hauled ashore, immunized and catalogued.
New Wave Etiquette
EXTENSION CHORDS
Allen Hester
As youth’s music reaches ever onward and outward in an unswerving effort to unite the world, this time by virtue of being equally obnoxious to everyone, so must music criticism cast off the chains of discretion. The New Wave is here, and with it a more than adequate amount of flotsam and debris, all of which must be hauled ashore, immunized and catalogued. Conventional considerations such as the selection of material, intensity of preparation, audience rapport, precision of execution, and (in the case of guitarists especially) number of sessions played with old blues singers should be held in abeyance in favor of more pertinent questions such as these: