I think its a largescale uphill battle, but educating the masses is definately a good thing.
I've had similar experiences, but in regards to where music comes from:
I was on a coffee date with this girl and we wandered into
tower records, and she started talking about how she had seen Laurent Garnier in
NY the weekend before. So I asked "Was he live or just DJing?" to which she responded
"You mean banging on drums and stuff ?" I went on to give a quick explaination of
what a live techno PA is and she responded something along the lines of "You've just
blown my mind, I thought that they made music by mixing records" This was not
and isolated occurance. A TON, of people that I've encountered believe that elctronic
music is magically generated by pulling all of the sounds off of vinyl(and they weren't
talking about tuntablism). I had pretty much the same conversation with a kid who
did maintenance at the company I used to work for in reference to my own music
......"umm I thought you made everthing by mixing".... I had to chuckle :)
Rob
component records
www.mindstorm.com/component
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From: Irene McC <substar@iafrica.com>
To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 8:18 AM
Subject: [idm] sadly this is true
quoted 16 lines So I was playing a set on Saturday night and in the middle of> So I was playing a set on Saturday night and in the middle of
> Tarwater's "Early Risers" a keen member of the audience comes up
> to me and says "is this Massive Attack?"
>
> WHAT ????!?!?
>
> Anybody with similar incidents - -? Time to educate the masses, eh!
>
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