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In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.

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I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.

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Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much. -Derek Bailey
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The first Company concert was a single concert with a quartet who all knew each other, although they didn't play together regularly.

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In fact it's quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so profligate in their use of it.

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I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me. -Derek Bailey
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Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point playing solo.

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I don't think it is any different from what it was, except that the method is now familiar so you can't set up some internal shock situation.

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Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music. -Derek Bailey
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