Dear Creem:

Man, there is just so much music. I just now took my new LP record off the turntable and destroyed it with a ball-peen hammer; one-third out of anger, one-third from self-pity for losing all that cash, and the other third because music like that should not exist. Yes indeed, Buzz Clifford, See Your Way Clear. Well he didn’t. The album consists of chart music. It took thirty-five musicians, no doubt good musicians, to make this recording. Ah ha, but it could have been done with any of a great number of musicians and have achieved the same results. My point is, that if the individual musicians have a specific direction in which they must play (chart music,for instance), the music takes on a specified atmosphere. Confinement of musician as opposed to expression of musician. The brilliance and daring loses text to the musicality. Musicians know this and it’s about time, right now, to let the general listening public in on it. Man, we have to keep up with the music being created so that more music can be created. We can’t keep music stalemated for something as basic yet as trivial as bread. Musicians shouldn’t have to cater to the public in the way of commercialized music in order to keep themselves fed.

The thirty-five musicians used in See Your Way Clear created nothing but noise (nothing against volume, volume freaks, often it’s a necessity for myself). The talent is there, but the motives and directives of the music and/or the musicians and the record companies has to change. So don’t buy no crap. Apparently it’s the only means to create a proper circumstance whereby everybody’s happy.

Decisively so,

Calvin Crawdad