We like to write about this stuff like we know what we’re talking about — the history of the artist, the process involved, the relationship between the two. Well, there are times when we don’t know what the hell is going on. We throw all of that out and go on about just how messed up something is and why we kind of dig its “messed up-edness.”
This is what we’re going to do with Mort Weiss’ “Talkin’ About It.” It’s not that we don’t know about Mort. We’ve reviewed his stuff and know who he’s played with. Heck, he even wrote for us for a while…until we caught him sniffing the mimeograph fluid and chasing the interns. Hey, we’re very open-minded but damnation, legal fees can really add up!
Right…”Talkin’ About It.” A Mort Weiss original. A Mort Weiss vocal piece: no clarinet involved. I get the feeling that he’s working his way through an improvised horn solo, but without the horn. I could be mistaken. Maybe Mort was murmuring out loud to the memory of altered state listening to Charlie Parker. Maybe this is a simulation of the slow-boiling emotion that finely-constructed works of art can produce: Ginsberg, Hunter S. Thompson, Davis Foster Wallace when he’s not off on an a 30-minute digression.
Or maybe it’s not any of this. Maybe Mort was just fucking around during the recording session and this was the result. No matter; it’s a fun (if difficult) listen. If the nearest street light wasn’t 30 minutes away, I’d drive over there and blare this baby with the windows rolled down while waiting for the green. The driver next to me would, hell..who am I kidding? The driver next to me would be looking down at his “smart” phone. Screw him.
Has anybody seen our interns?
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