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Posted: Aug. 27 2005, 12:01 |
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I think the greatest problem with Mike, that he became completely alienated from the musical world, and overall, from the whole world around him, thats why he lost his sense of reality, and his ability to judge what is good and what is not. Listening the track „Four fathers” you can realize that he still has extremely good melodies and ideas in his mind, but he cannot, and don’t want to develop them further. In 70s 80s there was a buzzing musical environment around Mike, and no matter what kind of a „meverick” he was, it still made a great emotional influence, driving force on him. But today he does not have connection with anybody except probably some stupid Ibizian dj.-s. That is why he ask his fans what they would like to hear from him (imagine Picasso asking people what kind of paintings they would like him to paint! and then doing just the opposite they answer. And that is why he can think such a nonse that connections to seventieth or eighties (i.e. composing long, comlex tracks) can be anachronism, when nowadays almost all of the musicans try to go back to their roots, dig up all the artistic values that were lost in 80s. The problem with this attitude that on one hand Mike will lost all of his traditional fans (as he already had lost half of them) and on the other hand he will not bee able to get new ones as well (as he gets less and less), and then wonder, why the hell he sells less and less records each year.
I think there are four possible solutions for this problem:
1. Get a good manager like Tom Newman, who has a sense of objective, artistic judgment, and who can explain to Mike that art is not about adapting stupid formulas as „beeing up-to-date”, but beeing always earnest to yourself, doing what you can do with real emotioan depths, and if you cannot do it, then take a rest.
2. Forget all the stupid dj-s, get connected with traditional musicians: african drummers, australian didgereedoo players, syberian shamans, eskimo whistlers, and realize that the term „world music” would be much suitable for him than this up-to-date „chill out” and „ambient” shit. (sorry).
3. Travel one year around the world to get emotional, intellectual and sensual experiences!
4. Get a clever girlfriend, with whom he falls in love, and who will tell him one night „Mike, if your next album will not be a complex, 65 minutes long instumental masterpiece, you can never tuch me any more!”
As we know, inspiration is coming either from within or outside the psyche. If inner inspiration is lost – which happens with all of the genoius people - you can still accumulate it from outside. Picasso could be a good example again.
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