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Re: The Phillip McCann debate

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Subject: Re: The Phillip McCann debate
From: "brassman" <brassman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 00:09:09 -0400
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Another person with ears........ :)

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> From: Gregor Spowart <gregors@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: The Phillip McCann debate
> Date: Sunday, May 24, 1998 2:07 PM
> 
> On Thu 21 May 98 (10:42:13), craigbennett1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >I've read this argument (substitute argument with word of your choice)
> >with interest. I think we're just going to have to beg to differ here.
> >I'm lucky enough to have played in the same band as him which was a
> >thrill (he is after all one of the best know and experienced cornet
> >players we have) BUT I have got to say that I am still not a PM fan. 
> >
> >He wasn't, for me, a bandsman, being rather aloof at times and also
> >very sarcastic/patronising. Quite often he was more of a hinderance
> >than a help to the BAND e.g. refusing to move tuning slide/constantly
> >interrupting the conductor (ps I'm already taking cover). Now as a
> >player no-one can take away what he has done (especially going back to
> >his BDM days and listening to him on a recording as a teenage top-man
> >with Faireys in about 1969 - quite brilliant). 
> >
> >I personally prefer the more adaptable players such as Brian Taylor,
> >Richard Marshall, Roger Webster etc. At the end of the day those FOR
> >will probably not change those AGAINST' minds and vice versa. So it's
> >probably better to leave it at that. I say this after trawling through
> >350 mail
> >items!
> 
> You're right there. We had this debate about Vibrato, which led onto
McCann a
> year or so back on the list, and we never resolved anything.  I didn't
change
> my mind about him and got flamed for my trouble :)
> 
> I have to say though, that he is just so dull a player.  I've heard him
live
> twice and it was very boring.  He had good control the 2nd time I heard
him,
> but the 1st time he was very very ordinary.
> 
> The fact that he's sold the 'worlds most boring melodies' album means
nothing
> to me.
> Still, if people like to listen to him, then its obviously not for me to
tell
> them otherwise, and he's always going to be a far better player than I
ever
> will be, but he's overrated.
> 
> All IMHO of course :)
> 
> 
> -- 
> Gregor Spowart
> 
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