The Olympics

[Mr Craig Clark]

Al observes:

> And of course Yanni, like much of the rest of these New Age(New Age? New 
> Wave?  Something "New" at any rate) posers, can only be described as a 
> sadsack "Eno wannabe".
 
Actually, I suspect it's more accurate to call Yanni a Jean-Michel 
Jarre wannabe. Personally I doubt if the fuckhead has even heard of 
Brian Eno, let alone has any aspirations towards being Eno (and if he 
has I find the whole thing more risible than I have words to tell). 
Judging by the "music" Yanni "plays", he's the kind of moron who'd 
probably dismiss _Music for Airports_ with the words "It's just the 
same thing over and over again..."

I think a lot of the others in the New Age crowd probably do think 
they're Brian the Godhead, which is also really silly. As a friend of 
mine said, comparing Eno to Stephan Micus, "Eno's got a humour about 
him that's actually totally against the grain of the New Age."

Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"