RE: What does a Echo-plex cost?

[Tom Attix <toma@microsoft.com>]

Y'know whenever I hear someone say anything that starts with "Kid's 
today.."
and then compares something current to something ten plus years old, I hear
a cranky old man in 1967 ranting about "these goddam hippie kids" and 
"their
horrible rock music" and "Frank Sinatra was good enough for us, dammit.."
etc. 
If you want to compare any era of pop music to any other you have to
remember all the crap, too. I seem to recall plenty of really bad music 
from
all the eras you mention (can you say Dave Clark Five, how 'bout New Kids 
on
the Block, think anybody will be playing Boston in 2098?). If your looking
for inventive or just good pop music, how about Beck, Ween or Radiohead? 

Remember kids, never trust anyone over thirty...

Tom the Cranky
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jprice@intcpi.com [SMTP:jprice@intcpi.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 1998 3:44 PM
> To:   'Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com'
> Subject:      RE: What does a Echo-plex cost?
> 
> Doesn't it seem like musically we are somewhere between 1978 and 1980 all
> over again ? 
> 
> The 90's have been overly derriviative - at least on the surface... god
> only knows what lurks underneath the core of this decades musical
> perspectives. 
> 
> Im optimistic and confident we are at the beginning of a new musical era
> and deeply interested in making phat traks to move every butt on the
> planet :-) 
> 
> 
> Tom Tom Club, Talking Heads, GMF, Run DMC and The Police, and even New
> Order were at least to me what Dylan and Joni Mitchell were and still are
> to the 60's era hippified joint -  like when it was comin up and out in
> real time.
> 
> Kids today have no sense of an aesthetic vision that is uniquely theirs
> alone. Kids of the 90's are a complete blank pages. That's both a good 
>and
> Bad thang.
> 
> Now in fairness, I would also venture to bet ya 1 Million G'ees that
> someone in their late 20's lookin out at all that was happenin say 
>between
> 80-84 would probably have the same sentiments that I'm expressin today in
> 98. 
> 
> As a culture (IMHO) we consume more and expect a lot less of Music today
> and are mostly numb to it ( cause we put it up in ya face everywhere  -
> almost the point that music's  presence is fairly disposable both for
> convenience and by personal necessity). It's simply a reflection of our
> comodity driven nature as a society. 
> 
> 28 means you are older but clearly not out of the count. Its also easy to
> dismiss a lot of interesting music because it smells like what we've seen
> time and time again. Remember Blank pages can be filled in any way they
> areare needed and or however they are chosen to be filled. And 
>fortunately
> ( unfortunately - depending on ya slants )  we are witnessing accelerated
> cycles of Recycling and integration on many different Musical fronts. 
> 
> The days of the classic looper are gone but not forgotten and 
>dead.Classic
> Guitar loopists are still esential but more of a like Pat Boone compared
> to say  Its just that people always seem to want to
> 
> I also firmly believe that Audience tastes while more disposable these
> days have become less rigid than what they were 10yrs ago. Now that's a
> beautiful thing and probably a good place to start chapter 1 of a new
> story to tell whether its guitar or synth driven. 
> 
> I have a hunch that new tales aint comin from the states - It will be
> Eastern Europe and Asian Countries (* new Freedoms old repressions and
> fresh perspectives are are a heady formula for new textures)
> 
> I'll stop babbling.
> 
>