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And somehow the limitations of the past brought a lot of individuality; i suppose the old timers were just reading the book and painting their own picture... i didn´t get it when Pete Townsend or jimmy Page talked so highly about John lee hooker...his guitar was mostly out of tune.It then occured to me that he wasn´t trying to play guitar but drums instead! Check out "Sacred spirit culture clash vol. 2" a cool platte with lots of sample loops,lounge chill out grooves and of course John lee hooker undeniable blues licks and citations L.a > At 11:59 PM -0800 11/17/02, Mark wrote: > >I think I disagree with you Richard. Not that I > think your list isn't > >great, I just think it's important to start with > people that are more > >current ..Then you go back and find the root, when > you have some > >context. No? When I've tried to go to the root of > things without > >an understanding of what's > >happening, I find myself having a difficult time > getting a fix sometimes. > > De gustibus non est desputandum. > > My own taste in research is to go immediately for > the root as soon as > I'm aware of its existence. Sometimes one discovers > these roots > through references from more familiar artists, as I > learned of Varèse > from a quotation on the first Mothers album and I > learned of > Stockhausen from a mention on the second Who album. > Once I knew that > Stockhausen existed I immediately bought the DDG > album containing > "Gesang der Jünglinge" and "Kontakte" and WHAM! I > was hooked. It was > 1966. I was 20 years old at the time and playing in > a folk rock band. > There simply wasn't any contemporary "mainstream" > electronic music at > the time. > > Similarly when I first became conscious of Indian > music through > George Harrison's use of the sitar on Norwegian Wood > I immediately > bought a couple of Ravi Shankar albums and listened > to them over and > over. It really wasn't that much of a stretch, as > long as I kept my > ears open (unlike my stepfather, who on hearing one > of my raga > records during a visit home for the holidays, > referred to Sharkar as > "Johnny One-Note"). > > But again, "De gustibus..." While I think that most > of us have > absorbed, at least subliminally, such a variety of > musical sounds and > styles throughout our lives that nothing we hear can > be truly that > surprising, perhaps many people are too set in their > musical tastes > to plunge headfirst into the abyss. I admit that it > took me a while > to hear blues as more than primitive three-chord > vamping. All I was > hearing was the surface. And I didn't have a true > appreciation for > African music until I actually learned to play it > from a Ghanaian > master drummer. > > -- > > ______________________________________________________________ > Richard Zvonar, PhD > (818) 788-2202 > http://www.zvonar.com > http://RZCybernetics.com > ===== __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com