Kenny G

Wishes: A Holiday Album (Arista) This is the worst album I’ve ever heard. Closing track “Auld Lang Syne (Freedom Mix)” begins with Dubya’s speech at Ground Zero, then G’s caterwauling sax kicks in over 50 years of random historical audio snippets that make “We Didn’t Start the Fire” sound like high scholarship. The song is willfully moronic and backhandedly disrespectful. More importantly, it proves what your heart already knows: Kenny G’s music is as indefensible as pederasty.

This article appears in December 20 • 2002.

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Greg Beets was born in Lubbock on the day Richard Nixon was elected president. He has covered music for the Chronicle since 1992, writing about everyone from Roky Erickson to Yanni. Beets has also written for Billboard,Uncut, Blurt, Elmore, and Pop Culture Press. Before his digestive tract cried uncle, he co-published Hey! Hey! Buffet!, an award-winning fanzine about all-you-can-eat buffets.