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"jim palmer" <jimp@pobox.com> put forth: > >I enjoy watching people play, especially if they themselves > > are enjoying it (and it shows). The visual definitely augments the sound. > > > > Greg > > > > well, at least you admit your not a musician... > (joke) > > really, the term "poser" was coined for this sentiment. > i personally am not interested in adding theater to my music >performances. > ... > (not that there's anything wrong with that) I suspect that doing a blanket-application of the term "poser", much less "non-musician" is effete at best, and limited by self-definition. Do your own show any way you like Jim, but it's much more gracious to just say "It's not my style", or "I don't prefer it". > if i were to do that, i would probably collaborate with someone who could make it their focus. > > but once you do so, you shouldn't try to separate yourself from the 80's metal guy with long > hair and a wind machine holding a power chord, striking a rockstar pose and grimacing menacingly. > after all, that's all he is doing... I can only assume you're attempting parody here. Has the above been done in the past 10 years, in any event? Sounds like you're in LA. It's so easy to assume the rest of the world is like LA, when you're in the area for an extended period of time. What IS "adding theater", anyway? I think it's a lot more than just striking a pose and hoping people will look at you, to slightly paraphrase Laurie Anderson... ... > (not that there's anything wrong with that) > > btw, it was no accident that the first video on mtv was "video killed the radio star" > most of the modern audience is more interested in visuals than in music. > i find the general audiences preoccupation with visuals somewhat akin to > people who can't read a book without pictures. I think this is an attitude that was pretty common towards the end of the Record Business' control, and quite justifiable in many cases. The advent of music video channels only extended the life span of the dinosaurs in the Big Five, but all that great technology can only last yez so far, especially if you're as creatively bankrupt as THEY are. In the future the Big Five will be known for Big Hair Bands, Corporate Rock, Disco, Boy Bands, Girl Bands, and Videos With Synchronized Dancing, as well as their frantic scrambling to prevent everyone else from producing their own music AND video. We've already been through the "You Gotta Makea Video" phase, and for a while it was necessary because MTTV is part of their "pipeline" - God knows enough artists complained about this publicly, and many just don't make videos altogether. Well, home recording came along, prices fell, all this great gear got into peoples' hands - and through the Big Five's fingers - and there's more than one collection of pipelines for music now. Why do you think the RIAA and their buddies have been running around screaming "copyright infringement" for the past several years, and attempting to get copyright and royalties laws changed to their benefit? (Hint, it wasn't just to make more Big Hair Bands!) When broadband becomes the norm, it won't just be our music that becomes available on the Internet, but also, should we choose to make them, video works. I've got one very close to finished right now, actually. Does that make me a poser? Or somehow less than an Artist? Moderation, alas, isn't a virtue one only applies to ones intake, isn't it? ******************** An aside on "Video Killed the Radio Star", if I might. Good Beginnings of a thing are often remembered for far longer than the things themselves, and more often than not may not be a norm for that thing's process-in-general. The Buggles' song was played on the radio in NYC long before MTTV was in even 10% of homes. And, for several years after its founding, MTTV was desperate enough for material to play that they ran Juice Newton videos. Some of you folks in the NYC area may remember "The Quadfather", WQIV, NYC's first quadraphonic station in 1974-5. It had previously been a classical station that had gone bust, losing its license. The last piece played on WQIV as a classical station was Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Midnight passed, and, after a simple "This is WQIV New York", the first piece played was ELO's rendition of "Roll Over Beethoven". Great Beginning! You might know that, after fierce lobbying in Congress, WQIV was retaken by the original owners, and changed back to Stereo Classical music. Simultaneously Quad also bit the big one - and so "The Quadfather" was lost to the sands of time. I personally thought Quadraphonic stuff was outstanding - No one who's ever listened to the Quad version of Tubular Bells can say anything less - and welcome the new Surround stuff that's becoming affordable for folks like us. While Sony's SACDs may not be ultimately accepted by the market, there are some wonderful remixes out there - Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" amongst them - that really let you LISTEN to what's being played, instead of just accepting the presentation, so to speak. Now back to our regularly-scheduled posing. S.P. Goodman EarthLight Productions * http://www.earthlight.net/Gallery - Cartoons and Illustrations! http://www.earthlight.net/HiddenTrack - Cartoons via Medialine!