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Re: Pshychoderelict, Quad on stage, Astley haters banquet



From: "L. Bird" <pkeets@hotmail.com>
"Aha.  It's a "cool" piece of work, rather than a "hot" one."

Exactly.  You've defined the differences very nicely.

"Cool is the realm of the intellectual, and of jazz."

I'll agree about the intellectual part.  The jazz generalization is too 
broad.  Try Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holliday, Louis Armstrong, nearly any 
flavor of blues (which is closely intertwined with blues), salsa, and things 
can get pretty hot.


"We'll definitely have to add SEX."

Please define "we".


>It is a work of complete cynicism and is too personal.  Only those who are
>into Pete will have any understanding of the themes and conlficts.

"He's actually produced a storyline here that reads like a soap opera."

True.  Dramatic presentation requires that it be simplified.  He would have 
to focus on the most interesting conflicts.  Are those internal to Ray, with 
the media in general?


"I think THE PRODUCERS is meta-art, and Woody Allen does stuff like that, 
too.  It has to have sympathetic characters the audience gets involved with, 
though.  Notice they got Nathan Lane in for a lead in THE PRODUCERS."

Of course The Produces has the great hook of nostalgia for WWI and the movie 
and some great broad humor.  Is sex enough of a hook for Psychoderelict?

"Did you listen to Pete's workshop mp3s on QUAD?"

Yup.

"He had cooled it off considerably from Roger's performance of same."

Definitely.  Of course, the demos were very instrumentally sparse.  I got 
the impression that the idea was to make it producable in a small theater.

"and they wanted to heat QUAD up with more of a rock sound.  Think it would 
play better that way?"

No.  It might sound better that way to my ears, but the larger public wants 
things more watered down.  That's the idea that got me excited about the 
Quad-for-stage demos (QFSD).  I think it would be very cool if a large 
audience heard the music and words from this gorgeous masterpiece, 
regardless of the arrangements.

Jeff