Comments on: Scott’s Bookshelf, Part 1 http://rockcritics.com/2008/01/21/scotts-bookshelf-part-1/ Sat, 28 Jan 2012 08:25:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: s woods http://rockcritics.com/2008/01/21/scotts-bookshelf-part-1/#comment-2186 Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:05:46 +0000 http://rockcritics.com/2008/01/21/scotts-bookshelf-part-1/#comment-2186 Michael, I appreciate your (overly gracious!) comment. And stupid me, I didn’t even put two and two together to figure out that you were the co-author of that book–damn. Not to suddenly back-track in light of this minor embarrassment, but bear in mind I was only noting an impression I had to the book 16 or 17 years ago (which is what I plan to do through much of this survey), and as I think I kind of noted above–obviously not explicitly enough–I wasn’t the most generous reader you could’ve found at the time-. For a number of years I was as intolerant a “popist” as existed on the planet. Sometimes I still am, but I’m pretty sure I was a thousand times worse back then.

But no, I wouldn’t even consider getting rid of the book, and at some point I’ll make my way through it again.

]]> By: Michael A. Gonzales http://rockcritics.com/2008/01/21/scotts-bookshelf-part-1/#comment-2185 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:43:42 +0000 http://rockcritics.com/2008/01/21/scotts-bookshelf-part-1/#comment-2185 At first i thought i wouldn’t reply, but what the hell…
I don’t think my co-author Havelock Nelson (former hip-hop editor at Billboard) was trying to be anti-pop, but I do suppose we were more into the east coast stuff–with the exception of NWA and Ice Cube. As far as we were concerned, Big Daddy Kane, EMPD, LL Cool J., etc was pop music.
Otherwise, I’m just happy the book has remained on your shelf after all these years, and not sitting in the nearest used book store.

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