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On 2/15/07, Charles Zwicky <cazwicky@earthlink.net> wrote: > > > Tell me -- aside from dinosaur acts, what current top 10 musician/pop > star is famous for their musicianship? > > > > > >http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts/chart_display.jsp?g=Singles&f=The+Billboard+Hot+100 > > > > > The question is rhetorical, and I assume that you really meant >'virtuosity', > > > but the reality is that NOBODY CARES except other musos!!! There was a time when that wasn't true. > If you can convey a song with meaning, that is true musicianship. Looking at this top 100 list, I don't see too many examples of that -- though there are quite a few I don't know. Anyway, my point wasn't to slag specific musicians -- the point is that the record industry concentrates almost all its money on monster acts these days (and ever since "Thriller") and spends far less on A&R and actually "developing" acts than it ever used to -- which means less concentration of musical quality. Something like Sting's tour IS bad for lesser musicians as it consumes an awful lot of people's live music budget. -- /t http://ax.to ......... extreme NY arts and music calendar http://ax.to/tr ....... my secret little little... http://ax.to/radio ... my little radio station (on intermittently)