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I was at the early set on Saturday and I thought that Motion's playing was obnoxious. I kept punching at his ride cymbal with a flat stick making it very hard to hear what Hersch is doing and I was sitting at the second table behind Hersch. I'm tired of critics talking about how great Motion is. He comps with no regard for the dynamics of the people he's playing with, to say nothing about the audiences ability to hear the other musicians on the stand.