At 10:31 AM -0800 2/17/06, Carl Dershem wrote:
Darcy James Argue wrote:
>> He also claims that each out-of-tune note Dylan sings is an integral
part of the work,
What makes you think it isn't?
Though I might have said "an integral part of that rendition,"
since, as you note, Bob does it differently each time. But there's
nothing worse than someone singing a pure-voiced, perfectly
in-tune Dylan cover. It's like an alto player playing one of
Duke's Johnny Hodges features and straightening out all the bent
notes.
That's where "elevator muzak' comes from.
Actually muzak is recorded by some of the best musicians in the
business, who can sightread anything and record anything in one take.
Or at least that was the case back in the '60s when I was on tour
with one of the well-known big band leaders who made a pile of cash
writing for muzak. I suspect that the non-imaginative nature of the
medium is required by the ad executives so as not to offend
anyone--except musicians, of course!
John
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