To me this reads exactly like the XLR8R article only with the questions
changed...
I just re-read the XLR8R article and the quotes are the same...
Maybe that's because they were written by the same person... Duh....
At 01:42 PM 3/7/2002 -0600, Vince Woolums wrote:
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/01/50/cover-mathis.shtml
You can make your own inferences.
Vince Woolums
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----- Original Message -----
From: Jayson B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <313@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 12:58 PM
Subject: RE: [313]Regarding Business
>
> >Yes I have been reading all this bullshit about what I said or didn't
>say
> >in my interview with xlr8r
>
> I'm glad to see that you're reading all this. it amazes me sometimes how
> many high profile people are on this list and actively reading it.
>
> I'll still continue to speak my mind on you or anyone else who puts their
> profile out for public display. When you have the fame to have a magazine
> ask for a interview, you should expect people to speak their mind on what
> you've said. I can't STAND IT when people tell me, "stopping talking
about
> dj x, he's not here to defend himself." Of COURSE he's not here to reply,
> he's a dj. He's busy doing dj things. The fact of the matter is, when
you
> choose to make yourself a public figure, *expect* the public to make and
> voice their opinion about you. In my humble opinion (and since i'm
> semi-jealously not in your position, i may not have much room to talk), if
i
> was in the high profile position of being able to make my music daily
> without the need of another job, and having people contact ME for a gig
> instead of the other way around, i would do one of two things with the
> comments that a little techno producer on a web list is making:
>
> 1. ignore them completely if they pissed me off.
> or
> 2. take them to heart, and see if there is some validity to them.
>
> You are in the public eye. You are an icon to hundreds of thousands of
> people all over the world. You have the ability to pracically walk into
any
> club in the world and tell THEM that you're spinning that night, for the
> mere fact that you are juan atkins. People simply will talk about you,
and
> that doesn't make them playa haters. that makes me someone with an
opinion.
>
>
> >1) I did not go into xlr8r and hold a gun to the editor's head and >make
> >them interview me or put me on the cover, contrary to the haters
>
> never said that. Like i said, being the great producer that you are, you
> have the fantastic ability of people chasing after you for an interview.
> and so you chose to put your opinion in a big spread in a magazine, which
> then entitles me to speak my opinion in response as well.
>
>
> >Apparently, I must be currently doing, and/or
> >saying something of some status/substance to warrant a recent cover
>story
> >on their mag.
>
> Wouldn't disagree with this whatsoever. you *are* juan atkins, and i
> certainly am not.
>
>
> >3)Since when did a coupla new jack playa haters (Poivrenoir,Yussel,&
> > >Jayson B,etc.) become the authority on this list as to who is in or
>out
> >of touch with Detroit ?
>
> hehe. new jack playa haters. I have a my newest song's title now.
>
> Pretending to be an authority and stating an opinion are two different
> things juan.
>
>
> >or that Oakee or Digweed are so commercially viable.
>
>
> they are commercially viable. that's why oaktree has commercials on mtv,
> and does all those faboo remixes for the popstars.
>
> but you have more integrity than that right? or is it the fact that you
are
> black, they are white, and if you were white you'd be doing all the things
> they do? All this time I though juan atkins was an artist, making
fantastic
> music and (when you showed up for a gig) putting on great dj performances,
> and that juan atkins had more pride in his music than the sellout
> cheeseballs. was i wrong?
>
>
> >I can't recall hearing any of their records (that they actually made) >on
> >the radio ? Maybe I'm wrong ? someone please correct me if I am.
>
>
> ok, maybe i am getting confused, and i'd love some clarification. What
*is*
> your stance on commercial music? do you feel that they although they
cater
> to the masses, that you do it better? or do you feel that you simply
write
> a better form of music, even though its obviously not as accessable to the
> mainstream?
>
> >4) And please give me credit
>
>
> I'll give you credit till i'm blue in the face. I've said it a billion
> times in this email; you *are* juan atkins, and that means a fuckload
more
> than being jayson b to the entire world of electronic music. but i'll
still
> speak my mind about you. that won't change.
>
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