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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Sunday, August 17, 2008Capozzi: 60 seconds with Ted SimmonsTed Simmons is a Takka Takka fan? Didn’t see that coming.
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Posted: August 17, 2008 at 01:24 AM | 16 comment(s)
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1. cardsfanboyAt least the interviewer didn't say "contemporary art? you mean like LeRoy Niemann?"
OK, didn't RTFA, maybe he did.
Well, there's a reasonable chance they actually talked before the 60 seconds and the guy already came off a bit ... ummm ... odd.
Also, it's just damn hard to explain. I'm a big jazz fan, especially of the "avant-garde" stuff. Folks will ask me who my favorites are. I've got like 4,000 CDs (not a big collection by jazz standards really) by a few hundred musicians and the questioner won't have heard of 99% of them (generally). So I generally answer with something like "sorry, just not possible to answer that one" and come off as an elitist jackass. Then try something like the explanation I just gave and come off as an elitist jackass with a wee bit of an obsession. So usually I just say "oh, you know, Ellington, Coltrane, Monk" and hope they know who they are.
So yeah, I can imagine what it's like in Simmons' shoes (if anyone ever wanted to interview me), having the guy mention in the pre-interview that he thinks it's fascinating that I like weird music and me saying something like "really, it's not worth talking about, just too hard to explain" ... and then I'd get annoyed if the guy brought it up anyway.
And in the case of the baseball player who likes modern art, there's the whole "Ripley's Believe it or not" aspect that Simmons is probably quite tired of.
When it comes to art, I'm sure it's also hard to explain to folks who don't move in that world. Look at the Lichtenstein answer. Simmons is saying "I'd love to have a print but I much prefer his paintings ... which there is no freaking way I will ever be able to afford." Finding auction sales is harder online than I realized but I think "Sailboats" sold earlier this year for $7 M (if I understood the info correctly). So sure, Loria can collect Lichtenstein, Simmons ... not so much. So that the guy even asks about Lichtenstein shows he hasn't a clue (I'm guessing ... I don't have a clue) and it just makes it more pointless for Simmons to talk about the artists (mostly little-known ones probably) that he digs and collects.
Also, you'd be amazed how pissed off modern art makes some people. I know this is true of music -- there's something about music that violates people's preconceptions (i.e. unobvious or even lack of melody, rhythm) which just sets some folks off. It's kinda fascinating except when you're the one being yelled at. So another reason to avoid it.
Same for "avant-garde" jazz. Years and years ago, one of my friends was into it and I tried. We would refer to it as "Screech and Honk" Music. I liked a little of it, could hear what some of the others were doing, but basically, it didn't resonate or it was too much work to listen to. I have to stick with Coltrane, Davis, Tyner and the like.
Same with avant-garde "classical" music -- while I love Philip Glass, Steve Reich and their kin, the stuff that goes beyond those guys, what we called "Box and Chain" music because it sounded like people dragging boxes and chains across the floor, is similarly either too hard or devoid of context for me to grab onto.
Context, on the other hand, is everything.
True, and even though I understood why another friend thought that Steely Dan was the greatest rock group of all time, it didn't mean that I had to like SD. :)
So I figure he's a good dude just for that.
Word has it that after Ted Simmons set his hair on fire he screamed out something that sounded like..."GUERNICA!"
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