wheel, whaddaya know.....
David Wozmak
>Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 21:55:46 -0500
>From: Darvin Maynard <wh...@EASTKY.NET>
>Subject: Re: Product, electric bass
>
>Fish or "fiddle", it all comes down to personal taste, and I am not a
>musician, but I am a "consumer" or being less commercial, just an ordinary
>fan of Bluegrass, and I don't appreciate electric "BASE",
Well, Darvin, I hope you'll forgive my previous outburst...I was assuming
you were a player yourself. For your future information, being shunned
because of the instrument I play is very similar in style and feel to the
statement:
"colored and Irish need not apply.",
which used to cause so many people pain and misery... I can relate because
one of the definitions also happen to apply to me.( although my surname
wouldn't give you the proper hint...)
The sadness I feel about your statement is not due to any loss on my part,
it's because of the tremendous, even staggering loss you are experiencing
by placing such an arbitrary limitation on your listening. Musicians have
wonderful ideas, and the instruments they choose to express those ideas are
part of the expressive voice. Now, I will grant you that many modern
electronic gadgets let very mediocre musicians produce "product" that has
many similar characteristics to real music, but somehow falls short of the
mark, and that there is a lot of that mediocre "product" selling a lot of
copies.
But your original statement is very similar to saying:
" An oil painting is comprised of a linen ground, sized with a hide glue,
primed with a linseed oil based paint of either titanium or lead, and has a
layering of the following pigments, all in a linseed oil and copal varnish
base: titanium white, alizerine crimson, ultramarine blue, burnt sienna,
raw umber, and payne's grey. Now, SOME painters out there will try to put
in an unacceptable color, cobalt blue. This is not a traditional color,
and I don't care what you call it, but don't call it an oil painting if you
use cobalt blue."
Sounds very silly in that context.
I believe you mistake being an indiscriminate listener for being a
discerning listener.
dwoz
DOBROSue
Nit-picky!