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Re: Talking music with other people.

Posted by J (A) on November 14, 2003 at 09:27:44

In Reply to: Talking music with other people. posted by Merle on November 14, 2003 at 06:46:44:

A few months ago on another message board, a classical snob made some comments about jazz & popular music that I found astonishing. Hearing someone like that say 'to me, rock music is an oxymoron' is hardly surprising to me and doesn't really bother me all that much. I've had plenty of that, my entire life, particularly from music instructors. Who cares, right? But this guy was a jazz hater as well, which I found quite interesting. He says that he "really can't give (me) an education in music to explain" that "it's just an historical fact that the best musical minds who ever put pen to paper didn't waste their thoughts on jazz. You don't like it, that's your problem, not mine." He went on to insist that "I'm sorry if trumpets, flutes, clarinets, and saxophones don't have the majesty, or range of different kinds of tonal colors, and therefore haven't been able to exploit as many possibilities music has to offer as a violin or a cello but that's just the nature of those instruments." Yeah, okay, whatever, Beethoven.

Then there are the discussions with people who continue to insist that rap is 'not music.' They feel they have the right to define what is & isn't music for everyone. Anyone who expects everyone to enjoy ANY form of music is simply foolish; but I will not allow a rap-hater to dictate to me what is & isn't music simply on the basis of their dislike. And I don't even listen to the stuff all that much anymore! So I'm not really all that interested in defending the stuff, which is not an easy task for a variety of reasons. But...'not music?' My father had to listen to people say the exact same things about Art Tatum.

13 years ago Johnny Thunders gathered the Heartbreakers for one last reunion gig. He died six months later; it was the last Heartbreakers show, quite possibly the last time Thunders ever played in NYC, and it was actually the only time I ever saw him play. Thoroughly underwhelming, but then again his reputation didn't lead me to expect all that much. A couple of days later, I was in a bar with a friend who'd gone, and we were talking about how great it was to have seen the Heartbreakers, even if the show wasn't all that great, simply because they hadn't played in so many years & who knew if they were ever going to play again. The bartender overheard snippets of our conversation & asked who we'd gone to see. When we told her, 'the Heartbreakers reunion,' she said, 'How was Tom Petty?'

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