ant wrote:
... I am sure if you felt that strongly about it you could ask for a refund, which I am sure they would be disappointed about. All good things come to those that wait!!
Nahhhh ... I would never ask for that. Even if I died before the book came, I would still be happy. There has been enough beauty coming from there, for me to complaint about it!
What I was suggesting is that the "principals" involved are too quiet and that is usually not a sign of secrecy as much as it is the fact that there probably are too many disagreements that are causing some issues that are harder to decide on and you don't have an Edgar with a whip to handle all the fuss, and punish the piano!
Aside from that, the silence, and the lack of ability for any of these folks to say anything about the music, the art, and how they feel ... is scary ... it's almost like they don't want to shake the boat too much, lest it fall sideways and kill the whole thing.
I'm a writer. I can tell you that I am writing a novel. And that this one is about one person's recovery from drugs after being found on the streets, and coming back the other way is her story about getting into it. If you ask me for a "meaning" ... I say ... there is as much as you can find in it, because I can not tell you about "meanings", because I do not write for "meanings" ... I write for what I see ... (check the poem I wrote here after Edgar's passing!). I have no idea what the "meanings" are, because that is a term that has nothing to do with my own "inner vision". Thus, it is like me telling you that this is a story about Guernica ... and look at the painting, and see the hardcore parts of it, which you find ugly, but obviously, there is a beauty that you see, that appeals to you ... and that it ... it's truth and the fact that you survived next to it ... or something like it.
I didn't tell you anything about the story that will help you even see it, when you have the chance to read it! (If it ever happens!)
It's a very "music" thing to "hide", thinking that others will steal your ideas ... but no one can steal "you". Or as Daevid Allen put it so well, you can kill my body, but you can't kill me ... and I will update that to you can kill my words, but you can't kill me ... (the words usually survive in one way or another!).
I will agree ... that this is how I see it ... and not the same as others, but seeing that kind of secrecy, strikes me of lack of confidence on their work and "person'age" that they wish to put forth and show. Which, of course, is not what the audience will see anyway!!!!! ... so why bother?