tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4865764596112100655.post8433614711819861087..comments2023-08-29T08:48:55.919-04:00Comments on Carol Diehl's Art Vent: Your Little RoomCarol Diehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023589628710711343noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4865764596112100655.post-68776785685311468892012-07-24T11:20:28.627-04:002012-07-24T11:20:28.627-04:00Great post! I was actually searching online for th...Great post! I was actually searching online for the lyrics to "Little Room" to add them to my list of favorite quotations. I definitely think that restrictions can make for better art. As Orson Welles says in The Third Man, "In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."Laura Roberts @ Buttontapper Presshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03716439129745683442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4865764596112100655.post-4172965778156961012010-06-01T18:48:51.524-04:002010-06-01T18:48:51.524-04:00Thank you, CAP, for this. I always sat it's ab...Thank you, CAP, for this. I always sat it's about sticking to our paths, while being open to everything.Carol Diehlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023589628710711343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4865764596112100655.post-39316855496341040902010-05-29T11:24:14.338-04:002010-05-29T11:24:14.338-04:00It is one of the great themes of invention or disc...It is one of the great themes of invention or discovery – how to keep refining your patch, and still come up with novelty.<br /><br />Your post struck a chord with me (to stretch the musical analogy) since I’d recently seen The Rolling Stones’ documentary on the making of their Exile On Main Street album in 1972 or 3 (I forget exactly when). Like the White Stripes, the Stones had been successful for around ten years when they retreated to the South of France to make their album in splendid isolation from the tax man and a changing London scene. They too tried to stick with their musical roots (50s Chess Records basically), but the results – to my ears, then and now – are mostly disappointing. Turning inward, as they did, just became an exercise in self-indulgence and complacency. One senses a narrowing of their tastes, a hardening of their persona. <br /><br />There are one or two highlights but mostly they settle for the polished brassy sound they achieved in 1969 with Honky Tonk Women. The songs are phony frankly, and so are they.<br /><br />Anyway, the contrast with The White Stripes is surely instructive. Not for them a massive French villa filled with groupies and drugs. Admittedly, we live in different times, but it seems you can’t keep the music real unless you keep yourself real in some ways. <br /><br />I love the way The Stripes have stuck with small venues, erratic schedules – an almost Franciscan modesty. It’s not so much a matter of arrangements or scoring – but realizing who you are and what you’re doing – that keeps the work consistent or focused. <br /><br />Jack’s playing has obviously grown far more expert with the years, and with that comes a certain confidence to try other things, so changes are inevitable. But I don’t sense that he will lose sight of his audience, or himself.CAPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09861096695503969576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4865764596112100655.post-76015285725635100072010-05-23T15:48:53.570-04:002010-05-23T15:48:53.570-04:00Yeah, that speech of Jack's jumped out at me t...Yeah, that speech of Jack's jumped out at me too. Good motivator. Good songs, too.ken weathersbyhttp://www.kenweathersby.comnoreply@blogger.com