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Hendrik Jan Veenstra wrote:

[sad but true Digi001 experiences snipped]
> I don't care if some individual gets by with copying and pasting, but
> if apparently the majority of the music-making community do it this
> way... well... then I seriously start wondering what happened to
> music while I wasn't paying attention...

Well, I'm not sure if this has to do with quality or whatever, but yes, it's
obvious that things have changed a lot. I don't know whether I like it. As
I'm old fashioned, most likely I don't. I allready said so, I really like
some of the new stuff going on, but I also like listening to players who
really have their "chops" sorted.
Fortunately a relatively huge amount of my income is achieved by playing
with such people (not allways the best jobs, a lot of shitty commercial
stuff, but also some really inspiring gigs/moments), so it's all fine with
me.
The interesting thing is, that in my little home studio I hardly ever make
use of my own "chops". I really don't record guitars that much anymore but
instead I like fooling around with all the options modern technologies offer
(Logic, softsynths, effects, LOADS of cutting, looping and pasting).
On the downside, I'm not exactly productive with that, I achieved more
complete results back in the days where I had to concentrate on the basics
(4/8 track and some lousy external mixing stuff).

> Portishead is indeed amazing in a way.  Muscially
> they're not very talented -- simple schemes, rather lousy musicians
> -- but theysomehwo manage to get a maximum effect out of their medium
> talents.  Which I admire greatly.

I might agree on the live part of it (but well, I recently saw some live TV
thing which was great), but anyways, IMO you nailed it down what making
music is all about: "manage to get a maximum effect out" (of whatever). And
considering this it doesn't matter too much if someone has incredible
technical skills or not, the main thing is knowing how to use your
possibilities effectively.

Sascha