Johnny Smith interview

[GuyBoden]

Johnny Smith interview:

The interview is an old, but good. Rare interview.

[AllanAllen]

Gotta love the direct shot of him playing Moonlight in Vermont

[jameslovestal]

Johnny Smith interview:

The interview is an old, but good. Rare interview.

Nice interview. I wouldn't say the "interview is old" since that doesn't provide any actual context. JS died in 2013, thus no interview can be recent.

Also, Smith is fairly "old" in the interview. One might assume that by saying it is "old", that it was done when Smith was young. (since the older the interview the younger the person being interviewed).

Thanks for posting this.

[GuyBoden]

Nice interview. I wouldn't say the "interview is old" since that doesn't provide any actual context. JS died in 2013, thus no interview can be recent.

Also, Smith is fairly "old" in the interview. One might assume that by saying it is "old", that it was done when Smith was young. (since the older the interview the younger the person being interviewed).

Thanks for posting this.

Obviously, it's been converted from a video cassette, the sound is only one channel, but still, it's a great interview.

[AllanAllen]

Nice interview. I wouldn't say the "interview is old" since that doesn't provide any actual context. JS died in 2013, thus no interview can be recent.

Also, Smith is fairly "old" in the interview. One might assume that by saying it is "old", that it was done when Smith was young. (since the older the interview the younger the person being interviewed).

Thanks for posting this.

What?

[jameslovestal]

What?

The older in years an interview is, the younger the person being interviewed. Say someone was interviewed in 1985 and then again in 1995. That someone would be 10 years younger in the first interview.

Anyhow it appears by "old" the OP meant that it was of poor quality.

[wintermoon]

Gotta love the direct shot of him playing Moonlight in Vermont

? I must've missed that

[AllanAllen]

? I must've missed that

47:15

[AllanAllen]

The older in years an interview is, the younger the person being interviewed. Say someone was interviewed in 1985 and then again in 1995. That someone would be 10 years younger in the first interview.

Anyhow it appears by "old" the OP meant that it was of poor quality.

The interview is from 1988. It’s old, I don’t know why you’re doing mental gymnastics.

[jameslovestal]

The interview is from 1988. It’s old, I don’t know why you’re doing mental gymnastics.

All I said is that saying an interview is "old" doesn't provide any context, especially when the one being interviewed is now DEAD.

Context is everything; it would have been much clearer if it was said the interview was in 1988, when Smith was 56. Again, "old" provided NO context.

Also, anything that is not older than I am, isn't old!

[Cunamara]

Did you find enough nits for the picking, James?

[GuyBoden]

Anyhow it appears by "old" the OP meant that it was of poor quality.

To be pedantic, it's an old video, that has been converted to a digital format.

A great insightful interview.

[Cunamara]

You know, you get a sense of who Johnny was. He looks sophisticated and urbane in all those old photos, but part of him was a down-home guy from a struggling dirt poor family. He seemed to be just who he was without much sense of contradiction. Seems like he’d be equally at home talking fishing, flying or adapting orchestral scores to plectrum guitar.

[AllanAllen]

We tend to romanticize these guys as diehard artists from some French noir film, small dirty apartment, cigarette and coffee at 2am, tortured by a muse that’s just out of reach.

But in reality, they were mostly regular guys who practiced a lot and played out.