Network23 wrote:Steve C wrote:I find Jerome's wording about Edgar's passing disrespectful.
There is an air of self import about him, isn't there? Particularly when he makes note of (yet another) TD comp that focuses on his time in the band
before he offers his opinion on "wannabe lineups."
To me, there's nothing "wannabe" about Peter Baumann. Those two '70s albums of his are incredible. I can't wait to hear what he and Edgar were working on.
I'm not sure it is for any of us to say Jerome's words about his own father are disrespectful, but I can see why what he said may come across that way. Put it this way, how many thousands of emails, texts, blog posts and tweets over the years have been misinterpreted, caused offence, when no offence was intended?
Yeah, as I said in this forum before, the Baumann question does leave us excited and curious, and makes me wonder just what is involved, one more album of new music under the TD name...music that he and Edgar worked on? Kind of like a Blue Dawn album (that was just Edgar and Ralf Wadephul). Or something beyond that...
I too think Baumann has too much stature to ever be referred to as a "wannabe", although I maintain that my feelings (notwithstanding the Baumann lightning bolt!) are that Tangerine Dream is at an end. I suspect very much Jerome was NOT talking about Baumann when he said that. It's easy to pick holes in things and overthink what people say...something I'm doing myself of course
There's clearly history there with Jerome, and it's obvious that bad feeling occurred when he left TD in 2006. Edgar noted in an interview that Jerome and Thorsten did not get on. Musically, personally, or both, I don't know.
But as I've commented before, some of Jerome's humour (and in dark times, as anyone who has lost a loved one knows, sometimes to laugh is a form of release) is lost in translation. And whatever Jerome had said there would always be people who disagreed with his thoughts about whether TD has any future. Judging from the past, his comments are actually not surprising at all. His directness and honesty, and openness (he could have just said nothing publicly, as is his right), even if some fans disagree with him, should be noted and respected.
Perhaps. Maybe. In my opinion. I have given myself a headache