When all of this first came out in June 2000, I thought the best
thing about it (other than hearing an artist really speak without
much thought for any personal back-lash...in a non PC way), was all
of the hoopla surrounding it. As you say, there are lots of copies of
his initial comments on the web (you seem to point to one of the ones
with the full text) and that's a big sign of what he stirred up. Pat
was saying what a lot of serious music people had been saying amongst
themselves for awhile about Mr. G (and fusion, rightly and wrongly,
as we've been learning in the class) for a long time. Having a honest-
to-goodness musician say it just gave it a little more credence and a
lot more voice.

Pat actually had some feedback on all the post-remark hoopla
(http://www.allaboutjazz.com/articles/arti0900_02.htm), including,

"As far as I know (and it is very possible that I missed something)
the major jazz and music mags (not to mention time or newsweek or
something) have not really had too much to say about the subject
other than the usual Kenny g bashing and maybe a little eye-rolling,
nor do I know of any other prominent musicians who have spoken out on
the subject. maybe as someone put it, dissing Kenny g is
like "shooting fish in a barrel, he would have to be the world's
easiest musical target" but, isn't this different? or are we all so
numb to all the crap out there and so worn down by the apathy of the
general public to any higher musical intentions that it really
doesn't matter to anyone anymore, something like this?"

He also eases all of our minds when he clarified the fact that he's
not planing on going on a guitar-to-head spree!

VO
Here's what Pat thought of all the hoopla about his remarks

--- In PostKenBurnsJazz@y..., "mtitus" <mtitus@y...> wrote:
> In last night's class (30th) George mentioned a famous criticism of
> Kenny G by Pat Metheny. There is no copy of this on Metheny's
> website (http://www.patmethenygroup.com), but there are many
> (slightly different) copies elsewhere on the Web. Here's one
version:
>
> http://www.music3.com/kennyg_and_jazz.htm
>
> Mike