Jon Anderson and Jean-Luc Ponty's New Band!

Slartibartfast wrote: Back in the late '70', when I first took notice of these guys, the notion of them teaming up was something I would never have thought of.  But then neither was Ponty in Weather Report, or Chaka Kahn for that matter.    I hope they make some inspired new material.

I'm so dis-illusioned with the state of the music these days. There is so much out there, and when perusing this board, it is all top ten, and folks just are not capable of getting out of that top ten thinking. It's like, they don't get it, that what brought out all the music that we love, was exactly the opposite of what the commercially designed top ten thing is all about.

I wrote a review for the new Djam Karet, and have read it 25 times or more ... and I can't post it. I think too many folks will think that it is an attack on the cookie cutter music that they are so used to listen to ... I put the review aside, had a good cry ... and then decided that it will go into my website only (I'm redoing it!), and then not have to deal with the little kid playing with his weewee mentality that sometimes it feels like is taking place here.

I'm not giving up ... but I'm starting to get more private with it.

I'm not sure that Jon can isolate himself enough to create something different anymore. He's loving the individual star attention that he is getting, and so has Jean-Luc, who pretty much showed ZpZ what a bad garage band they were in the hands of the son, and proceeded to blow out the stage and the audience with RtF. The ego in those situations does not get any smaller, and while Jean-Luc might be a better musician to help create something as good or better than TFTO, in the end, I think that the combination is due to combust and explode and endup creating another poor version of a story by Rick Wakeman under the guise of some music!

I, honestly, think that the BEST, has already been written by Jon (TFTO) and that's that. Unless he has the sense to get himself better centered with folks that are more about "depth" than they are about their "star".

My only "model" for something like this, is Peter Hammill. It doesn't matter how bright the star shines ... it still shines, and that is all that matters. To me, as much as I appreciate Jon, and Jean-Luc for their insanely amazing talents, their best work is long gone and done. I don't think they can do anything valuably (is there such a word?) better!