Talk:Adrian Legg

Neutrality

Hi, thanks for work on this article, you make a point about my neutrality, how would you like to see it improved ?

Remarks about pre-eminence of a particular musician are very common on Wikipedia. I can see why they're perhaps controversial, but they can also be necessary. We have to choose who/what goes into Wikipeda. There are too many guitarists in the world for them all to go in (and I've listened to too many of them!). So there is a value judgement implicit in the inclusion of pre-eminent individuals.

Thus, I felt that some justification was needed for inclusion, apart from fame. It may need to be worded differently here and there, and I'm making a few changes. Would be very glad of your comments.

(If value judgements, however well-informed, don't belong here, then there are a list of pages that need updating.)

cheers

He was voted Best Acoustic Guitarist for 4 years running (1993-6) by the readers of Guitar Player magazine. Guitar for mortals, and Mrs Crowe's blue waltz were voted best acoustic album of the years 1992 and 1993 respectively.

This is good, somebody else's opinions stated as opinions, and attributed to source. It is left to the reader to decide if this really means that the artist is good or if the public just has a lousy taste.

With all this technical wizardry, it must be said that he manages to create astonishingly evocative music. The track just mentioned is a fine example, but his "Green Ballet II" bears listening to again and again as a daring, imaginative, and atmospheric piece.

This is bad, author stating her/his opinions as facts. It's OK for an art review, where everyone knows the author is stating her/his opinions, but not in an article for encyclopaedia, where people come for facts, not for opinions (or at least, if they want opinions, they also want to know whose opinions they are).

There followed a string of hugely successful albums in the 1990s, starting with...

This is a bit problematic. As "success" can be measured objectively, for example by how many records have been sold, it is still arbitrary where the success becomes "huge." I think it would be better to just mention the actual number of records sold (a fact), and leave it to the reader to decide whether it constitutes a "huge success" or just "big success" (an opinion). — Timo Honkasalo 12:35, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Deleted paragraphs

I put the most problematic paragraphs here. As Timo Honkasalo points out above, these would be far better if they could be attributed to some sort of source rather than stating it as fact. --CVaneg 04:48, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

With all this technical wizardry, it must be said that he manages to create astonishingly evocative music. The track just mentioned is a fine example, but his "Green Ballet II" bears listening to again and again as a daring, imaginative, and atmospheric piece. Occasionally his imagination lets him down when naming his pieces, leading to amusing names based on the general style of the music. (Examples are "Paddy goes to Nashville" and "Paddy in the Synagogue", tunes in which an Irish melody took on bluegrass or Jewish elements). He also seems to have a particular fondness for writing waltzes.

Some feel that Legg is at his best when playing live, and he is also an excellent anecdotalist. Some of his humor has found its way onto his albums, especially in the live material in High strung tall tales. A musician who blends many styles, as much as, for example Michael Hedges (though to entirely different effect), Adrian Legg is surely one of the great acoustic player/composers of his time.

Minor Changes

Added some periods to "Mrs", fixed "eclctic" to "eclectic", as well "Adian" to "Adrian".

Zidel333 02:18, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Rewrite

Folks, this article needs to be written in an encyclopedic tone. I like Legg just as much as any other fan, but I'm surprised this article is in the state that it is. Viriditas (talk) 03:36, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Improved to B-Class now. Binksternet (talk) 19:36, 9 January 2010 (UTC)