Dear Michael;
"...heady, pretentious, self infatuated, imaginary composer....blues
butchery..." Do really believe this crap or are you just trying to stir up
that selfsame viscous substance.
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Thames" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "gary digman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>; "Roman
Turovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 8:47 AM
Subject: Re: sketches of spain lute
> >I am not a big jazz fan, but Strayhorn's "Daydream" is as >great a piece
> >of
>>music as anything classical.
>>And having "The Who???" in the same paragraph is >preposterous.
>>The only R&R entity that ever could stand up to classical >and be judjed
>>(favorably) on classical terms was KingCrimson's >LIZARD.
>>RT
>
> I always found King Crimson to a bit "heady" and a little
> "pretentious".
>
> Rock musicians, with to much knowledge, can be a dangerous
> combination.
> Unless you happen to be a heady, pretentious, self infatuated,
> imaginary
> composer. In which case one would be attracted to this kind of blues
> butchery, and classify it as good classical music.
> Michael Thames
> www.ThamesClassicalGuitars.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roman Turovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "gary digman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 6:39 AM
> Subject: Re: sketches of spain lute
>
>
>> > Dear Jim;
>> >
>> > I do. I need jazz. I don't need the Who. That's just me. However, I
>> > don't need every expression of jazz that's put out. I'm not going to
>> > try
> to
>> > tell you that you should need jazz or that you should need the jazz I
> like.
>> > There's something for everybody. I don't know why we seem to find it
>> > necessary to belittle each other's tastes in order to promote our own.
> The
>> > whole argument seems to come down to the idea that what I like is good
> and
>> > what I don't like is bad in some objective sense. So far no one has
> managed
>> > to articulate what objectively makes the Who good and Charlie Parker
>> I am not a big jazz fan, but Strayhorn's "Daydream" is as great a piece
>> of
>> music as anything classical.
>> And having "The Who???" in the same paragraph is preposterous.
>> The only R&R entity that ever could stand up to classical and be judjed
>> (favorably) on classical terms was KingCrimson's LIZARD.
>> RT
>>
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>>
>>
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