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From:
greg davis
To:
Peter Hollo , idm list
Date:
Thu, 11 Nov 1999 11:56:59 -0600
Subject:
Re: (idm) Re: GENRE BASHING
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remember people, this is coming from someone who is in a group called "fourplay". isnt that name already taken by some awful smooth jazz group??? hmmmmm. Peter Hollo wrote:
quoted 36 lines Kelley wrote:> Kelley wrote: > > 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. > > > 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? > > > 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
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