Yeah Paul, I was trying to see Michael Hedges play but I was in Connecticut at the time and he was performing in New York just an hour drive from where I was, but we got hit with a terrible snow storm that day, so bad, that later that evening they closed down I-95 for about 6 hours to clear it, so I never got to go to hear him.
Yes the styles are along the same path but in Andy I see a little more softer Cafe approach to his music and a little more harshness to Michael's, in a vocal concept, it's like listening to Joan Baez versus Janis Joplin, Janis would go off the more beaten daring path where Joan would stay with a tighter groove and what was working, and do something flairish with it, Music is funny when it comes to bottom line, there are rise takers and dares and others who take what works and find another way to work it...Thats what I love about music it is so self expressive, but sometimes in life you get a shity audience with no compassion for your work or efforts and just compare you to others, thats why an open mic night can be fun to do once and a while, people go there ready to hear something they don't expect, not to say he or she played like a rolling stone and it sucked because it wasn't played like Bob dylan.
Music can be such a comprise sometimes if we let it, but in the meantime, I like playing me and just being me because sometimes although I know what I am going to play, I trick myself and play or find something I least expect out of me, That is so rewarding when I do. Thanks guys, it's always a pleasure to have such Minds of equal music appreciation to talk with..rock on... John
