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Yeah, come on, Ler. What a load of crap. -J Joey wrote: > This is the biggest SHIT post I have read on this list in a while. Get > over yourself. > > > On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:45:47 -0800, Larry Cooperman > <coop@newmillguitar.com> wrote: > >>Hi Tony, >> >>I listened and I found the comp wanting nothing and found the title >>quite proper for the sonic result. Very, very good! >> >>I have found that a lot of the people on this mailing list really don't >>understand music. >> >>They understand machines, popular "music," multimedia and other things >>wrapped up in technology but music no. >> >>So I would take what everyone says here with a grain or a load of salt. >> >>A while back I gave a series of compositions to one of these people and >>his brother for their amusement and because the primary function of the >>stuff was music, I heard nothing from them. They don't understand >>music as an organic growing thing, they understand it as part of a >>social order that they grew up with. This I know because I heard them. >> As good as they are I heard nothing new what-so-ever. So when >>confronted with something that they haven't heard before they were >>silent. >> >>What I mean to say is that music has a life beyond classifiers like >>popular and technology. It is pure expression without the need for >>monikers. >> >>We have a lot of highly intelligent people here who are schooled and >>well read but treat their music like vestiges of their teenage years >>and nothing beyond that. When I say they don't understand music I mean >>it. They have no historical perspective at all and believe me that is >>need in the music arts as it is in any other. How the hell do you know >>when you're being a "rebel" if you know nothing about what you're >>"rebelling" against. >> >>There are no rebels here. I read these emails from time to time most >>of the time I just delete them because of the banal content, people >>thinking they're really. really cutting edge and they are just not. >> >>I may get a kick out of something here someday but I attended Y2K4, did >>a really horrible performance myself but I am sure that I made sounds >>that I hadn't heard before based on the chaos of all of the crappy gear >>that was meant to represent me. >> >>Is a paint brush gear? Is a vibrating string gear? Gear, gear so what >>if there is no electricity? Technology has made musicians out of >>lawyers and bakers? No. At least not in my book. >> >>As well, a person playing in a orchestra is not the same caliber >>creator as some of the Loopers. I always thought that being a musician >>had something to do with creation and with some orchestra musicians, >>you take the sheet music away and they order a pizza. There was a time >>in classical music when everyone improvised. >> >>Take what I say as not another opinion but a judgment. I have some >>historical perspective. >> >>Larry Cooperman >>New Millennium Guitar >>http://www.newmillguitar.com >> >> > > >