Get the picture right
Doesn’t somebody at RMN realize that the next thought of virtually any musician looking at the two pictures of kids with musical instruments (8/2, p. 2 News, p. 8 Spotlight) would be “I wonder what else in the paper is a fake"? If you had to take pictures of kids who obviously never had Lesson One on those instruments *), couldn’t you at least have somebody show them how to hold them? Or should we get them credit for not trying to blow into the wrong ends?
( FYI: Trumpet: Left hand in the wrong place. Flute: Right hand wrapped around the instrument from the wrong side. Clarinet: reasonably close except for clarinetists (left hand). Saxophone: Ouch: Left hand should be above the right hand (the guy must have had a hard time to keep the sax from dropping od the ground). Also: a player would normally use a neck strap attached to the ring at mid-length.
Yes, we do notice. What a glaring fake.
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Well,of course it's fake.Does anyone think the Rocky cares about music-or musicians? After all,the Rocky was foaming at the mouth in favor of the smoking ban,as well as the DUI laws.Those little Prohibitions made going out to hear live music a dangerous venture,so you won't hear as much or as good music if you DO take the risk, and if you play music for profit,your profit took a nosedive right into the pockets of prison guards and alcohol counselors. And you won't hear much about it from the Rocky Mountain News.
Posted by Spank the Plank on August 7, 2007 09:23 PMOh my god...who cares?
Posted by on August 8, 2007 11:40 AM11:40 we should all care.
If they can't even get a photo like that without not only staging it, but staging it wrong, then how do you trust anything else they say or show?
In this case it was easy to catch because there was an expert around to catch them in something that couldn't be defended on party lines.
In other cases the pro-s and con's arguments make it difficult to see.