Originally posted by LeMartinPecheur
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A pleasant programme but slightly off MB's usual path, I felt.
Where usually he's encouraging his guests to chart their career path in some detail, that wasn't really on in this case (perhaps the fact that the PoW still hasn't really started his first job was a factor?
). And of course MB may have been much restricted by ground rules laid down in advance. This forced more very general discussion of arts, artistic influences, esp QE the QM, and about his specific reasons for his musical choices, which inevitably forced him into some general, not entirely coherent 'waffle' about why he liked them.
That's not a criticism: nobody can talk well about this, unless perhaps they can reel off factual, analytical stuff about how the music is organised and that really is the main reason they like it (which makes for a pretty dry, cerebral approach).
Where usually he's encouraging his guests to chart their career path in some detail, that wasn't really on in this case (perhaps the fact that the PoW still hasn't really started his first job was a factor?
). And of course MB may have been much restricted by ground rules laid down in advance. This forced more very general discussion of arts, artistic influences, esp QE the QM, and about his specific reasons for his musical choices, which inevitably forced him into some general, not entirely coherent 'waffle' about why he liked them. That's not a criticism: nobody can talk well about this, unless perhaps they can reel off factual, analytical stuff about how the music is organised and that really is the main reason they like it (which makes for a pretty dry, cerebral approach).
- and, I agree that it can (and often does) result in arid commentary. 
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