Mellotronists

It all comes down to artistic integrity. If the artists use the medium to
express ideas, then who is to say if its good or bad? I just finished
listening to Van de Graf Generator's H to He, and it is damn good. Sounds a
little dated, but pretty expressive lyrically and musically.
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  Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2005 2:48 PM
  To: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
  Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Re: MOJO magazine - top 40 prog albums


  Couldn't agree less with you on this issue Mike.  Elitism, hubris,
  arrogance and self loathing knows no genre in my limited experience.


  Fritz   M400#1697....doesn't know squat

  -----Original Message-----
  From: tron@...
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  Sent: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 20:18:29 GMT
  Subject: [Mellotronists] Re: MOJO magazine - top 40 prog albums

     > You can say the same for almost any style and genre of music.

  I don't think you can. The silliness and conceit of a rock musician who
  suddenly thinks that - just because he has been ham-fistedly ripping off
  the bits of classical music he can understand for the last ten years -
  he can write an erzatz concerto is only beaten by the sheer drudgery of
  listening to his eventual effort. What makes progressive rock risible
  thus is because you don't tend to find that hopeless level of idiot
  aspiration in other musical styles.

  The only thing that makes these unusually irritating people get by is
  the fact that their audiences wouldn't actually know what a sonata was
  if it drove over their heads in an eighty seater coach with with the
  word 'sonata' written on it. Having grown up with people like this I
  always found that deep down they were really wanting to hear a 4/4 jam
  in E as much as anyone else, but that they felt secretly guilty about it
  and chose instead to pretend to like music about hogweed and lighthouse
  keepers, artifically stuffed into 9/8 by someone who would probably have
  been happier doing the 4/4 in E as well.

  Mike Dickson (tron@...) M400 #996
  The Official Cynic of Streetly Electronics
  Streetly Sample Library http://www.blackcat.demon.co.uk/tron/




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