Posted by Tim Stretton on February 12, 1999 at 08:08:14:
In Reply to: Stabbing the Wax posted by Joel Anderson on February 07, 1999 at 09:09:01:
: Thanks to Jerry Hewett for showing us an example of Vance's efforts as a music critic. Who else could have written it? The descriptions of the records he approved of put me in mind of bits in "The Faceless Man," and I laughed out loud reading the 'Dirt-List.'
I thought the review was a hoot, although no doubt had I been Abou Ben Keyser and had my work described as "noisomely conceived; maladroitly executed" and "emetic" I would have been less enthusiastic. I wonder what happened to him, nad whether his work was as bad as Vance suggests.
Tim.