From Reason’s Brickbats:
Spanish police responded to a call at the Siguenza Jazz Festival after someone complained that saxophonist Larry Ochs and his band weren’t jazzy enough. The fan insisted that his doctor had warned him it was “psychologically inadvisable” for him to listen to contemporary music and he said that was what Ochs was playing. After listening to Ochs, the police decided the fan might have a case against the organizers, who refused to refund his money. They referred the dispute to a judge.
My immediate response was that the Spanish jazz fan is a bit of a douche. That may very well be true, but does he have a case against the Siguenza Jazz Festival? You make the call:
Okay, okay… I know what you’re thinking: maybe the guy painting didn’t properly tune his paintbrushes and was throwing off the rest of the band. Let’s give Larry another chance. Here he is collaborating with Wilco guitarist Nils Cline (and no, it’s not a Shreds video):
Trust me, I’m not the type of person who listens to stuff like this and reacts with, “That’s nothing but noise!” I listen to Sun Ra, John Zorn, Eugene Chadbourne and Wildman Fischer, so accessibility isn’t necessarily something I look for in music, but this shit is fucking weak. If I paid money to see that crap, I wouldn’t go so far as bringing the cops in, but I’d definitely feel ripped off.
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