Mellotronists

Well don't worry y'all,
I'm not that easy to insult,
and moreover, having a chat about these kind
of things is precisely why I subscribe to this list..

BUT ANYWAY,
I don't really mind what yer point is,
MY POINT is that, yet again, "The Musical Box"
are playing in London very soon, and my mate
(who like my, loves early Genesis, and never got
to see them live, cos we weren't even BORN until
1973!) is trying to persaude me to go and see them...
...but I'm just not that fussed, cos I know that all
I'll see is some overly-competant musicians
replicating sthg else from years ago.

cf.  If I went to see a Sex Pistols tribute band,
where some ginger margerined nutbag was faithfully
replicating John Lydon's every snarl and spit,
I would not find it very exciting, cos I'd know that
John Lydon was genuinely just behaving like that
cos he was angry and a mentalist,
not because he'd carefully copied something someone
else had done 20 years ago.

DAVID

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jonesalley" <jonesalley@...>
To: <Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 11:56 PM
Subject: [Mellotronists] Re: musical box


> 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.
>
>
>
>
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