[sdiy] My son's first groove

[Steffan Davies]

David G. Dixon <dixon at interchange.ubc.ca> wrote at 09:26 on 2009-01-27:

> Steffan,
> 
> Your father is a jazz musician who hates Kraftwerk?!?  That sounds like a
> contradiction to me!  Remember the words of Thelonious Monk when asked what
> kind of music he liked: "All music."  When asked to clarify if this also
> included Country and Western, he said, "Didn't you hear me?  I said ALL
> music!"

A bit of humourous overstatement, sorry. I think it's fair to say that
he wouldn't pick Kraftwerk to listen to repeatedly, but he's pretty cool
all in all. He did a series on drumming once for Radio 2 and put, at my
suggestion, both The Wrath Of Kane[1] and Ali Baba[2] in, neither of
which is quite the usual Radio 2 fare :-)

S

[1] http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=N-mOgRw9ozA
[2] http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=doJVAZeoC3g (and it is "Baba" despite
this - I have the original 12" release somewhere)