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In Reply to: FINALLY! posted by mauimusicman on March 2, 2007 at 02:48:24:
...we might likewise be unburdened of "country" music.
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"western" music too? I like both types as long as the vintage is correct...
"I always play jazz records backwards, they sound better that way"
-Thomas Edison
Hmmm. I wonder how Charlie Parker would've reacted to such a musing.
seems to have failed him. Next he'll be saying there's no intgelligence in Intelligent Chips.
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I replied to you directly and never said anything about whether or not you are open-minded. If you consider my posts in this thread to constitute apoplexy, then we see things even more differently than I thought.I suppose I have to ask you directly, so I will. What do YOU think Charlie Parker would have thought of the suggestion that, after exposing the already-exposed (if not over-exposed) obviousness of the negatives of the music featured in the story (which spoke to me more about sales than about music ), the OP should concentrate his energies of ridding the world of music that Parker himself found to be inspirational?
I pose this assuming that you are not dismissive of the accomplishments of Parker, his status as a well-regarded, innovative and influential instrumentalist, and his improvisational ability.
...in the SF Bay Area playing '70s, 80s and 90's music (KMAX - in the "jack" format) switched to a country format yesterday without notice.Should be a law.
Important distinction to be made here. There's decent country--and then there's the stuff they play on the radio. FWIW, I dont listen much to either. But one is respectable and the other appalling.
> But one is respectable and the other appalling.That could be said about every form of music. Country ranges from the legendary Hank Williams material all the way to music for pickup truck commercials. I'd take Harlan Howard's "Beyond the Blue Horizon" (with a lot of great covers available) any day of the week over some of the tripe that has been passed off as serious classical or jazz. No form of music has a monopoly on either greatness or garbage.
For better or worse, much of the music and radio business is about making money and there has never been a lock-step relationship between popularity and quality, though they are not mutually exclusive, either.
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