Taken from another forum on the introweb:

You'd be a dick too if you spent years learning theory just to play dinner music while pentatonic rock and roll boy is out in the parkinglot getting his dick sucked all because of a bad finger tap that made the slut in the front think he's the next EVH. Jazz guy goes home to his ugly wife who doesn't like sex anymore.

I'm sure this is why some of them are dicks.

I think I should learn to tap better.

Funny thing is that I'm in a jazz band at the moment. And I go out and act like a real stuck up wanker as a part of the act. It's really a stab at the free jazz scene down here, heads so far up arses that the knock over tables while they walk around the venue.

BTW jazz used to be called jass. Rumour has it that the spelling was changed to the double z because people used to cross out the j. Which could explain why jazz is a load of ass most of time

He's not kidding about the free jazz scene. Here's a shot of me at the last Rick Jensen Trio performance.



Who are you playing with?
Isn't it yet another word for everybody's favourite pass-time?

If there is anybody out there who really thinks all jazz is ass, and there is none with attitude, check out Albert Ayler and Peter Brotzmann... especially check out Brotzmann's "Machine Gun". It's got bone crushing force.
Nobody should learn to tap. Play better notes, not more notes!

you reckon? nah Im learning how to tap better aye lol

Regardless, tapping aint always about playing more notes, it can be used subtly to make sounds you couldnt otherwise do on a guitar, doesnt have to be break neck widdly widdly eddie van halen styled tapping...... I never been involved with the jass (silent j) scene in Wellington, but I can imagine how far up their ass some of their heads can get, and these are likely to be the guys that dont ever do anything cool, or get any sort of reputation as good players, too busy getting or trying to be cool....... reminds me of the time I walked into the cobra club (a metal club), Paramata Sydney, must of been 1992, walked up to the bar and all the glam boy poison wannabes shaking their hair down their backs with their tassels and crocodile boots...... whos got the best licks... why I have cos I got the longest hair buzz....... there are plenty of musos with their head up their asses involved in all genres, I think jass has just become a resergent (sp) like popular place for alot of them go..... its funny though, I hear jass musos talking about how natural and organic jass is. If this is so, then why don't more of them play with heart? Why is it taught from a book? and the thing that really gets me, why do they need the sheet music????? cant they remember how the song goes, or at least feel it? All good, just a wee gapp gripe.... nothing too serious..... I actually like some jass I have heard

hehe... the tapping thing is just one of my pet gripes.

the teaching jazz thing is pretty wierd. when it was all starting, there wasn't any jazz schools, the best of the old school learnt jazz by sneaking out to night clubs when they were 14, and sitting in on sessions with the masters as they got older. no fucking schools, or sheet music, or any crap.

the reason more don't play with heart is because they know the music, but they don't feel the music.

now days there's money to be made playing the same old shit over and over, so schools and shit are big business. having said that, I spent 4 months at jazz school in wellington, and overall it was fucking cool, improved my musicianhship heaps, and gave me new ideas about music and how shit fits together that I could apply to rock'n'roll and blues and all of it, not just jazz.