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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. No, not really. For every "Gentle Giant" there was a Debbie Boone. The reality is that every record on the charts was produced by talented musicians, producers, and engineers. >>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. Also not true. Look at the late 1970s. You would think that there were only 5 bands: Led Zep Arrowsmith, Skinnerd, Boston, Foreigner... What became of the hundreds of other bands of that era? All one needs do is read a few interviews with them to find out how little has changed. >Something like Sting's tour IS bad for lesser musicians as it consumes >an awful lot of people's live music budget. Now that's true!! -- ... http://www.zmix.net