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From:
Peter Hollo
To:
Kelley Hackett , idm list
Date:
Thu, 11 Nov 1999 23:19:36 +1100
Subject:
Re: (idm) Re: GENRE BASHING
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<382AB457.8655F0C8@fourplay.com.au>
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Kelley wrote:
quoted 2 lines Still, your criticism of James Brown is nothing more than your personal> Still, your criticism of James Brown is nothing more than your personal > dislike, which is fine.....but unfounded it is!
No, not unfounded at all! I've heard lots of James Brown, and called it the way I hear it. I get bored. I didn't criticise his skill at songwriting, the musicianship of his bands, his supreme funkiness, or anything else.
quoted 2 lines Oh, unless you have produced better music, and have inspired as many people as> Oh, unless you have produced better music, and have inspired as many people as > he....then.....I am all for ya...otherwise..
Well, I play in a moderately popular band in Australia. We've sold 6,000 copies of our one album as yet. Not really in competition with JB! But honestly, do I have to be as iconoclastic a musician as X before I can say I don't like them, or even actually criticise them? Here: I'm a classically trained cellist. I hereby declare that I find a large amount of Mozart very boring (and some - the Requiem, the clarinet quintet, some other bits - sublime). Am I out of line because I'm not a household name like Wolfy is?
quoted 1 line Hush, Hush!> Hush, Hush!
Nope. Comin' at ya loud and clear! Still no ducking. Peter. -- Peter Hollo raven@fourplay.com.au http://www.fourplay.com.au/me.html FourPlay - Eclectic Electric String Quartet http://www.fourplay.com.au Raven: experimental electronic http://www.fourplay.com.au/sound.html "Of course, dance music can be a music where you lie on your back and your brain cells dance" -Michael Karoli of Can, quoted in Wire mag. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org