Ha ha, ZZ top, U must be square dancing........
Doe-C-doe your partner fella!
Hk!
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Millar [SMTP:tmillar@usa.net]
> Sent: Friday, October 08, 1999 9:29 PM
> To: idm@hyperreal.org
> Subject: (idm) Re: ZZ, Bowie
>
> First of all, the constant barrage of complaints concerning lack of
> innovation
> on the part of this or that artist has gotten tiresome for the Nth time
> with
> me, and I'm sure a few others. Has anybody on this list invented any new
> forms
> of music lately? No. So hush already.
>
> Second, if people can talk for days on end about supposedly relevant
> post-rock
> bands that wouldn't know a funky beat if it gave them VD, then the rest of
> us
> can chat about ZZ Top. At least it's danceable, for Pete's sake.
>
> Third, Bowie may cop style from others, and Earthling may have been poo to
> a
> lot of ears out there, but he still makes an average of two or three
> keepers
> an album which is more than a great deal of our favorite artists do. If
> copping style from others is such a sin, then you've got a lot of work
> ahead
> of you- one hundred years of The Blues is lying out there waiting to be
> denounced as uninnovative copycat trash.
>
> Fourth and lastly, to whoever dissed the Rolling Stones- well, you can't
> always get what you want.
>
> Tom
>
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