Piece Comment

Review of A lesson in ROCK!


I have chosen the tone NPR-ish because I rather wish it wasn't. I like the idea - and I enjoyed listening to the different kinds of rock except that I forgot why he was playing them - exactly why is he afraid to stop rocking? In another review I said I love the Blunt Youth project - it gives me hope. This young producer sounds very good but in this piece I think he is alittle too controlled - he's verging into the Public radio "men-who-bake-bread-and-aren't-ashamed" vocal smoothness! Don't do it! That's a fine kind of voice in these days of media shrillness, and would life be without them - but it's a 35-54-year-old voice - happy to hear very young people and I hope the edgier of these find a context as they are. Please.