Korgscrew
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Posted: April 13 2003, 04:30 |
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I'd want to keep in mind that it's a guitar magazine, not a current affairs journal...if every interviewee was asked in depth about the current world situation, there'd be no room for anything else. How many people would buy a magazine with 'Mike Oldfield talks about Iraq' on the front (I'm not sure I'd bother - I have my own views on it, and don't really care to read his, despite how revealing it may be)? I think it would be different if it were an interview of a political songwriter, but Mike's work has never been in the least bit political, and there might even be a reason why he's kept it that way. It's important for there to be an exchange of views on world affairs, but I don't think guitar magazines are the place for it . If people want to know about Iraq, they only have to turn to the TV, to newspapers, to the radio, to the internet and to news and political journals - I think that all the information which people are going to get is already out there (of course, there's going to be information which is beyond the reach of the general public, but that's another matter...). If a guitar magazine wanted to bring the middle eastern situation to its readers' attention, a much more interesting way would be to run a feature on the guitar's middle eastern parent the Oud, and to ask Oud players from the area how the realities of their world emerge through their music, how they see their future (as well as the background of how the Oud evolved into the guitar...how the guitar then made its way back into the middle east and its music)...that, to me, would be far more interesting, and enlightening, than reading the views of Mike, whose views are going to be similar to those of others which have already been aired somewhere else.
That said, a possible question could be "Do you think the human race is dividing into two tribes, one spiritual, one violent and materialistic?" .
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