So basically summing up your reply to Mike, all you have to add to this thread is belittling Mike's long, thoughtful message. Even though Mike is offering a great deal of generalizations and minimizations, what he is saying is a personal opinion. People seem to think you can cover all of the bases and have some sort of perfect discussion full of examples/counterexamples, and exceptions. The reality of argument isn't really like that though. So jumping on Mike's ass and offering idiotic one-liners to waste the bandwidth of the list isn't going to make arguing anymore perfect.
Yes, hugh, you are exactly right. music is music, and you can't color music. You certainly CAN however, color the politics of music, and the business of music. The culture of music can also be colored by the aforementioned business and politics. This is the point I believe Mike is trying to make. > That's kinbd of an over-generalization. I know a lot of people who *only* go > there if there's someone playing that they want to hear. > > He played some pretty good tracks last Sat., man. > > That's 100% true and I don't think many people would disagree with you. > > I thought music was music. Didn't know you can color sound. > > Wow you're jaded. > > And all in 10 years or less, huh.
