Klarinet Archive - Posting 000061.txt from 2006/02

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] That's music?
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 05:16:17 -0500

A yera or two ago, I remember hearing an American rhythm and blues group and the
Rolling Stones "perform" Litte Red Rooster on the same day. What struck me was
the utter incompetence of the Stones in the genre which they seemed to have
taken up. Their performance seemed to be a pathetic imitation.
Roger S.

In message <7189-43E6E1DA-3415@-----.net>
klarinet@-----.org writes:
> 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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