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Re: My method against music piracy
From: walkinay@nv.net (hank alrich)
Bill Graham <weg9@comcast.net> wrote:
"Mark" <makolber@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:cdf3c0bf-8f26-49c7-a137-125303c4d821@u31g2000pru.googlegroups.com...
(no good new music otherwise)
yes, it appears that there is no good new music
Mark
"No" is a pretty strong word....I would say that there are still some good
writers out there, (Sondheim, Williams, etc.) but they are very few when
compared to the greats of Tin Pan Alley, (where hit songs were turned out
every hour on the hour, over a fifty year period.) I put most of the blame
for this on the tin-eared, teenaged buying public, who have somehow been
taught to have absolutely no musical taste....When my teen aged
grandchildren come to visit, I wow them with some of those wonderful tunes
from the 20's thru 50's.
I've been playing standards now for several years with a swing trio, and
for about 18 years before that on string bass with an acoustic swing
quintet. Yes, there are many moments of genuine brilliance both
musically and lyrically, but there are also several hundred tons of
device-bound music floating extremely trite or clumsy lyrics. It's easy
to put that era on a pedestal, but the pedestal is made of plaster.
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shut up and play your guitar *
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