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Given the last comments I made, I'd like to at least state for the record I
totally agreed with Dennis' point below re copying/learning.

(and I bet you thought this would be something completely different...)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Gunn" <mightyjohn@...>
To: <logic-ot@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 5:54 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [L-OT] guitar gods


> 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.
> >
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> 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.
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> 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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