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Klarinet Archive - Posting 000060.txt from 2006/02

From: "Rommel John (Rafi Jochanan) Miller" <rjmiller@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] That's music?
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 01:00:20 -0500

I like what Ormondtoby Montoya says, music is a matter of one's own
particular tastes and I have no qualms, arguments or disputes with that.

The link for the ARTS Network I wrote about in a previous e-mail is:
www.classicartsshowcase.org and I urge everyone to visit the site, and urge
their cable companys and satellite providers to carry this station if they
do not already, it is a wonderful asset to have when you consider the
plethora of VH-1's and M-TV's on Cable and Satellite.

Shalom,

Rafi
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ormondtoby Montoya" <o4rmondtoby@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 12:42 AM
Subject: Re: [kl] That's music?

> Someone here (I've forgotten who) lumped the Beetles and the Rolling
> Stones into the same category. Based on what I saw of Jagger and his
> band this afternoon, that's nonsense. The Beetles made music,
> regardless of whether it was to your taste or not. (it certainly was
> to my taste!)
>
> I kept waiting for the music and/or dancing to begin this afternoon, and
> it never did. That's really what bothers me.
>
> I wish for the 'old days' of precision marching bands during half-time.
> I have no idea what Jagger's salary was, but I wouldn't be surprised if
> it could've paid for the Scots Guards to give us some real half-time
> entertainment.
>
> I am not putting down rock-and-roll. "Being a snob" is not the issue
> here. The Beetles and Buddy Holly and Little Richard and Fats Domino
> and the Everly Brothers and Bill Haley and Jerry Lee Lewis and so forth
> all performed music (most of which I still enjoy listening to).
>
> It's just that Jagger offered nothing by way of melody or harmony
> progression or timber or rhythm or lyric content or dance movement....
> just 10 minutes of empty droning and awkward ambulation.
>
> Someone mentioned that the kids in the 'pit' may have been shills. I
> doubt they were paid, but it _did_ occur to me that perhaps they had
> been told: "If you want to see your face on TV, be sure to jump around
> and wave your arms a lot, and above all, smile!"; and perhaps this was
> why most of them were there. I didn't notice any totally raptured
> faces in the crowd.
>
> It happens that last week my local newspaper ran a full-page story in
> the entertainment section about why pop music sales have dwindled. The
> article claimed that unpaid downloads and copied CDs are only
> camouflaging the real problem, which is that kids are reporting that
> they're bored with the empty 'music' that fills the shelves these days.
> The article didn't back this up with hard data from polls or surveys,
> but it's easy for me to believe....
>
> After all! We're talking about the SuperBowl audience here --- one of
> the largest TV audiences of the year. The half-time show had no
> 'performance value', either good or bad, that I could perceive.
>
> Now I will put my soap box away.....
>
>
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