On the bus into work this morning, the driver was playing one of his own cd's, rather than the normal radio fare. It happened to be an album of saxophones noodling over a casio drum machine (it may have even been one of those little toy ones) beat, complete with little pretend synthesized guitar sounds. It was a whole new level-- ubermuzak. Now, I don't want to be judgemental about somebody else's musical tastes, but come on, people. This has to stop. Luckily I was not driving the bus, as this music was giving me high blood pressure, the sweats, and inside I was just a blur of barely contained road rage.Now the saxophone is largely to blame here, for it has, let's face it caused a lot of personal pain through the years. It's not to say that it is a bad instrument per-se, there are some instances of it being played beautifully (my favourite love song "It makes No Difference" by The Band features a sax solo), but it is hard to look past all the damage that it has done. I'm sure the actual technology that the evil Nazi scientists used and developed, was actually pretty brilliant-- but how can you see the good in something that has been responsible for so much damage and destruction? The same goes with the saxophone.
I feel sorry in a way, for Adolphe Sax, the inventor of this instrument of torture. It must be a heavy load to bear, to know that YOU, and YOU ALONE are responsible for Kenny G.
3 comments:
Kenny G is sick!!!! next thing you are gonna say that Santana isn't a musical genius!!
What have you got against the Sax. It is a great instrument. I remember a band in the 60's called Sounds Incorporated which included several saxes - great.
As I said, there are definately exceptions to the rule. I just had a look at sounds inc. on Youtube, and am willing to concede that they are an exception. But I stick by my point that on the whole, particular since the 80's, the saxophone is a weapon of Mass Destruction. Compare it to the piano-- a piano played cheesily still sounds pretty good. The same can not be said about the sax.
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