short docu on the chapman stick

[Tony Hardie-Bick]

Andrew Tarpinian wrote:
> On Oct 3, 2009, at 1:53 PM, Tony Hardie-Bick wrote:
> 
>> Gert van Santen wrote:
>>> I've been thinking about your comment a bit, and I feel you are
>>> probably right (about the excessive praise). On the other hand,
>>> the film is made by his son (well, he's called Dan Chapman), plus
>>> this is also done as a kind of "birthday" present (it was EC's
>>> birthday couple of days ago).
>> Before I got freaked out by the excessive praise, I was *seriously*  
>> warming to
>> what I saw: clips of the workshop, woodshedding, literally, a good  
>> fifteen
>> minutes of that would have been fascinating - for me anyway :)
> 
> I think it's a result of the length of it. It is like you are only  
> really seeing one aspect of a full documentary, a part to get you  
> emotionally involved in the myth. I think if it was a full documentary  
> all the other in depth sections would balance it out and you would be  
> more forgiving of the praise :)

I'll recover a bit, and give it another try. The guy deserves all the praise, 
for sure. And, frankly, even though I don't particularly like the music most 
stickists play, their technical knowledge of music outstrips mine many times over.

Tony (HB)