05-21-2007, 04:14 AM
now This is interesting - - if you were unfortunate enough to have had your blood pressure elevated to stroke level by exposure to Jim Harrington's asinine "review" of Taylor's Warfield concert - which read more like a personal vendetta - check out what must have been an answering comment from a working musician that the online paper chose to run as an article - - yep, interesting that they did that- yes indeed 
Taylor Hicks clicks with fan
Article Last Updated: 05/20/2007 07:06:54 AM PDT
IWAS at last night's Taylor Hicks concert at the Warfield in San Francisco, and my impressions of the overall concert quality as well as the crowd size and reactions were the complete opposite of yours. I found the crowd to be extremely large, vocal and very much into his music and performance. I have no idea how you took such an electric, fun and exciting show and turned it into the lethargic, lackluster, amateur hour portrayed in your article ("Hicks' licks none too hot at Warfield," May 11).
Admittedly, I am a longtime Hicks fan, but I am no fan of the show "American Idol." I detest the bland pop singers that the show churns out and markets year after year with the exception of Taylor Hicks, and only because he was a very obvious diamond in the rough from his audition. I found it patronizing for you to presume that every concertgoer last night would "be taping the show at home," as though we're all so vapid and clueless about good music that "American Idol" is our one and only entertainment outlet and gauge of talent. Mr. Hicks was always a standout performer on "American Idol," but it sounds like you've always disliked him and would never have given him a good review no matter what he did on the stage last night. I am not a music critic, but I have been a professional musician for the past 25 years. In my opinion, Mr. Hicks is a rare original in a sea of cookie-cutter, one-dimensional pop/rock artists. For some reason unbeknownst to me, however, it is now "cool" to hate Taylor Hicks as compared to a year ago, and as a reviewer you have clearly bought into that philosophy. How very sad.
He is not nor will he become irrelevant. His fans think he's fantastic, and we are the ones who really count. Next time your paper wants to send out a reviewer to a concert, I hope they send out someone more objective instead of someone whose only goal appears to be knocking the artist down for sport.
Martha L. Garcia
Fremont
http://www.insidebayarea.com/sanmateocou...ci_5942433
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Taylor Hicks clicks with fan
Article Last Updated: 05/20/2007 07:06:54 AM PDT
IWAS at last night's Taylor Hicks concert at the Warfield in San Francisco, and my impressions of the overall concert quality as well as the crowd size and reactions were the complete opposite of yours. I found the crowd to be extremely large, vocal and very much into his music and performance. I have no idea how you took such an electric, fun and exciting show and turned it into the lethargic, lackluster, amateur hour portrayed in your article ("Hicks' licks none too hot at Warfield," May 11).
Admittedly, I am a longtime Hicks fan, but I am no fan of the show "American Idol." I detest the bland pop singers that the show churns out and markets year after year with the exception of Taylor Hicks, and only because he was a very obvious diamond in the rough from his audition. I found it patronizing for you to presume that every concertgoer last night would "be taping the show at home," as though we're all so vapid and clueless about good music that "American Idol" is our one and only entertainment outlet and gauge of talent. Mr. Hicks was always a standout performer on "American Idol," but it sounds like you've always disliked him and would never have given him a good review no matter what he did on the stage last night. I am not a music critic, but I have been a professional musician for the past 25 years. In my opinion, Mr. Hicks is a rare original in a sea of cookie-cutter, one-dimensional pop/rock artists. For some reason unbeknownst to me, however, it is now "cool" to hate Taylor Hicks as compared to a year ago, and as a reviewer you have clearly bought into that philosophy. How very sad.
He is not nor will he become irrelevant. His fans think he's fantastic, and we are the ones who really count. Next time your paper wants to send out a reviewer to a concert, I hope they send out someone more objective instead of someone whose only goal appears to be knocking the artist down for sport.
Martha L. Garcia
Fremont
http://www.insidebayarea.com/sanmateocou...ci_5942433