Re:Popper

[Matt Gitchell <gi6075ma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 1 Jun 1995, Christian N Michalek wrote:

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> 
> On Thu, 1 Jun 1995, Matt Gitchell wrote:
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> > Yes, I think Popper is amazing. What else can you call someone who can 
> > play that fast and be that clean?
> 
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> You want fast? Check out Madcat Ruth, Phil Gazell, Mark Graham, Howard Levy
> Mike Turk(in his early years) even Brendan Power and Charlie McCoy.  All 
> these guys can blow past Popper in a second. 

Let me reiterate that I'm NOT a big Popper fan. The guy is fast, and the 
guy is clean.
Faster and cleaner than most by a long shot.
And I'm not saying that the players listed (most of all Howard Levy) aren't 
also amazing.
But I think that Popper is extremely proficient at what he does in 
addition to serving as a decent introduction to the instrument 
for folks from my generation who haven't heard of the other cats because they 
are either too lazy or too apathetic to go seek them out.
You shouldn't (and, in fact, can't with any justification) say that he's 
not a technically excellent player.

--Matt