Mellotronists

I am sincerely not trying to insult you, but you really couldn't have 
missed the point of my post more if you had deliberately tried to.  
And, the sad fact is that pop music at its best is exceedingly rare.

Jon E Salley
M400 #886


--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, "David Davis" <feline1@f...> 
wrote:
> Classical music is generally not written to be
> performed by the composer - he gets an orchestra
> to do that, who all dress like shop mannekins and
> are trained so that they reliably reproduce somebody
> else's dots on a page without colouring it with their own ideas.
> 
> This is completely different to the werld of popular music,
> where we are as much interested in who the performer
> is as to what they sound like - what they look like,
> what their personality is.
> At its best, pop music is about how to live your entire life,
> it's about individuality and personality.
> It absolutely makes a difference who is on that stage,
> and how 'for real' they are.