MOTM

Hey all!

IMHO-if you deliberately make a sound and present it to others, you
are a musician.  Period.  Others may despise you for having made that
noise in their presence.  Still others will gripe that you shouldn't
make a living by making that sound in front of an audience or on any
recorded media.  Many more will stand on the sidelines with their arms
crossed and tell anyone within earshot that they could have made that
sound better!

To be fair, it should be known that my tastes in music are, uh,
eclectic.  My small CD collection includes Bob Wills and his Texas
Playboys (I LOVE pre-war western swing!  One of the main ingredients
that produced rock and roll.)Zappa, Mike Marsh, Dick Dale, Helmet,
Robert Rich, Mahavishnu, Bartok's Quartets, Richard Feinman's Quantum
Physics lectures (there's something you can lay down and watch the
room grow dark to...)and many other oddities.  If someone plays a
techno-pop piece for me, however, I will truly listen!  Spend some
time at the websites of Dave Trenkle or Inform3r's Hong Kong
Counterfeit!  Jurgen Haible's site is a real treat too!  I'm probably
not going to own a copy of The Treblemaker's latest, but I'll sure as
hell give it a proper listen.  Afterwards, I'll keep my gob shut if it
doesn't appeal to me!  Honestly, I'm still humming bits of it...

Carlos Santana (not my favorite guitarist...)once said, "...God made
the world round so we can ALL have center stage".

No confusion here.

Chub-LIVR