Usenet Newsgroups Re: My method against music piracy From: 0junk4me@bellsouth.net On 2010-09-03 kludge@panix.com(ScottDorsey) said:    >>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. Agreed, especially if you place the word "good" before amateur in the previous paragraph. Like Hank, and Bill I enjoy playing standards, standards were supporting me quite well in NEw ORleans doing the piano along with your dinner thing at a couple of fine restaurants in the quarter and on ST. Charles. THe problem is that the amateur musicians of today don't have the performance venues where skills are honed performing before audiences that actually want to hear them. THere's a lot of amateur "talent" out there, but it doesn't have the development opportunities we had when we were coming up. Richard webb, replace anything before at with elspider ON site audio in the southland: see Subject