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- Marjorie Van Halteren
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- "A lesson in ROCK!"
- Summary: Eighteen-year-old Mick Pratt writes a letter to his thirty-year-old self, reminding him to ROCK!
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Review of A lesson in ROCK!
Marjorie Van Halteren
Posted on August 14, 2004 at 09:18 AM
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.