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Re: My method against music piracy
From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
hank alrich <walkinay@nv.net> wrote:
Bill Graham <weg9@comcast.net> wrote:
"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.
Well, I think part of what made that era great was that so much music was
being written, so much all the time, and in so many different styles, that
some of it was _bound_ to be good.
What is wrong today is more a matter of there being a lot less music being
made, in part because there are fewer amateur musicians than there used to be.
And what IS made that is good has a harder time getting distribution.
But yes, there's good stuff out there, it's just not on the radio.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
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