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At 11:48 AM -0400 6/27/01, GAmoore@... wrote:
>Why don't we drop this competition in music is bad/good thing. Clearly to
>either extreme its bad, but in mild, indirect doses it spurs on progress
>in music and science, etc.
>
>
>>Anyway this "sad f***er" ,  because of his destructively competitive
>>attitude has been asked to put his pathetically unoriginal and
>>derivative guitar on another misguided soul's album for the next few
>>days and after that do some sequencing and vocal work for educational
>>TV so I guess he is finished with this thread.
>
>There are great musicians who can get any sound, and there are those who
>create entirely new sounds. Both types of people are needed in the world.
>So both of you are missing the other's point.
>

And you are missing my sarcasm but since you have never heard me play 
I would expect that.  About half of the bands I play in play 
improvisational and or experimental music.  I am *not* the most 
proficient player in (this highly competitive) town but when people 
want something *they* think is noisy and weird I am among the ones 
they call.  The artist whose album I am working on right now is a 
Woman named Phew who (like me) was part of the beginnings of the 
Punk/Japan Noise movement in the 80's.

By the way I find learning things note for note one of the best 
possible ways there is to train your ear and a good ear is absolutely 
essential for improvisation and collaboration.  So paradoxically if 
you want to do something original being good at copying is a very 
valuable skill.
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                                 Dennis Gunn
                                 Mightyjohn@...

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