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To: joseffy who wrote (301000)12/30/2010 5:15:17 PM
From: THRead Replies (2) of 306849
 
j,

I'm a musician. Not great, not gifted, but I can get by. I know about a third of those things on that list of yours.

Around 85 or 86 this asshole my father used to hang with was looking at my album collection and commenting on what he thought of modern music. Hardcore classical and jazz guy (which I like too).

Anyway, I don't show him the album, but I play an intro of about 1 minute for him and stop it before the singer comes in. And he went bonkers explaining how this guy knew about this structure and used this augmented chord and still resolved it against yada yada. Then I played him another 58 seconds worth of another song. Again, this classical "snob" was impressed.

So I asked him, "is this guy any good?". And the snob said he was clearly gifted and classically trained (he was right about that, BTW).

And what were those songs? "Women in Love" and "Spanish Fly", by Van Halen.

See, if Edward has been born say 200 years ago, he would have hung with old Mozart. They would have chased women and partied together. And you would be playing philharmonic recordings today of your favorite Edward works.

All that stuff you wrote out has zero to do with enjoying music. ZERO.

GT
TH
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