Ken Burns: Funk
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Not Ken Burns again.
That would be the biggest pile of steaming dogshit ever conceived.
Burns: "...and that's when Louis Armstrong fully realized the funk sound."
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[Stanley Crouch]And so the melange of sounds that Project Blowed represented was like gumbo![/Stanley Crouch]
:::Cue footage of trains:::
i hate to say it but i feel bad for Stanley, because the 1st thing i think about when i hear his name are those lips....it must be miserable knowing the 1st thing people see on your face is your worst feature...those lips are disturbing...they're like 5 different shades...ranging from yellow to a pink & brown swirl....poor Stanley,miserable bastard
I mean, who is he?
Ken Burns on the otherhand is a complete twat.
but i look forward to Ken burns: We Got The Funk episode 9 - Metal Funk - "featuring exclusive interviews with Roddy Bottom's of Faith No More, Mike Muir from suicidal tendencies, and of course Flea weighing in on the last truely great era in the history of funk"
"when we came up with the idea of slap bass with heavy guitars we knew we were onto a sound that would change the world"
"the disporadic culmination of latino lo rider culture fusing within the nascent thrash metal genre coalessed into a sound of such modern day significance that it can only be seen as the true logical extension of all that louis armstrong had lived his life creating"
"im gonna give the guys credit for doing what they felt they needed to do, but im not interested in that self indulgent bullshit, gimme Fishbone anyday"
Hilarious--that could almost be a quote from Rickey Vincent's book. Vincent would have found a way to throw in one or more of the following word/phrases, though: "funkster," "funkateer," "stanky," "nastay," or "the funk bomb".
Ken Burns needs to stick to what he knows. Like being a middlebrow faggit.
I think the probelm had less to do with Ken Burns than it had to do with Wynton's input. As most of y'all know Wynton has routinely shunned anything post bop, goes out of his way to only talk about Satchmo, and of course the incident with Miles Davis. Im not saying Wynton isnt an exceptional technical player, which he is, but his whole "I am jazz" mantra is completely annoying. Wynton Marsalis was, I believe, Burns' main music adviser and probably shaped his opinion. Burns made a great documentary about Baseball, and Ive heard his Jack Johnson thing wasnt horrible.
well, what qualifies anyone in the end? I mean, do you only want filmmakers federally approved by some authoritarian body? Seems like he has as much credentials in documentary films as anyone, I just question his agenda on the jazz doc. It's pretty much the Wynton Marsalis Agenda.
Well, I never watched it & don't really know anything about him. All I know is that he has done these things on Music, Baseball, etc. & they seem to be regared as the gospel by "the Middle-brow Faggots" of America. Just seems kinda strange.
It wasn't horrible.
But it would be nice to see some fresh voices get a crack at some of the footage that was discovered...seems like Burns' is the established documentarian, safe bet for financing and guaranteed to only be so controversial(conservatively speaking). That's what I have the most issues with...only something with the Ken Burns seal of approval is legit, at least with the NPR/Corp for Public Broadcasting crowd.
True dat, I agree that NPR/KCRW/Corp for Public Broadcasting is quickly declining and it looks like they're about to be fuckered by Washington as well.
Ken Burns = Rickey Vincent.
sorry!