But that methodology where players are pitted against other unfamiliar players has been so widely adapted now that anybody plays with everybody. |
Charlie Appleyard can be anybody; but I've used him sometimes in chat pieces, and these are all chat pieces about the history of Charlie Appleyard. |
Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point playing solo. |
For me, Company is still the best way for me to work. |
I am reactive. |
I don't research anything. |
I don't think it is any different from what it was, except that the method is now familiar so you can't set up some internal shock situation. |
I found that you couldn't use the same people anyway; there weren't that many people, so you'd be using the same ones over and over again. |
I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business. |
I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing. |
I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people. |
I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me. |
I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing. |
I'd like trios and quartets actually, but I like duos because a lot of musicians who I like playing with like playing duos. |
I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics. |