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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Hi,<BR><BR>I'd
like to react on your comment Nate, I couldn't agree with you more.<BR>More than
10 years ago I also discovered these kind of people (I'm 23 yrs,<BR>so not that
old yet), and I truely detested them. People who go to<BR>conservatoria (if
that's an english word) have great playing and<BR>theory-skills but totally lack
in creativity and originality. I still know<BR>dozens of those kind of people,
they are in masses.<BR>For a long time I was a fanatic against these people but
once you have to<BR>let it go, it's just not stoppible. That's just the way it
works I guess.<BR><BR>But I still think that you can notice if one piece of
musical composition is<BR>creative or not (while hoping it's not stolen from
someone else of coarse,<BR>which sadly enough happens more and more..). There
are still bands and<BR>groups around who I believe to be truely musical, fresh,
creative and<BR>original. The sad thing is that most "empty" musics still seems
to be<BR>preferred by the masses though.<BR>You must consider that most people
can't see a certain depth and originality<BR>in music. They fall easily for
camouflaged music as loads of reverb and that<BR>kind of things and things like
"succes chords" as I like to call certain<BR>standard "always reaching succes"
kind of chords and chordprogressions.<BR>And as I read I see that there are
still more people who see this blindness<BR>that the mass has, and as long as
those people, like here, are around, I can<BR>live with it. You can't show the
masses what they can't see anyhow.<BR><BR>P.S. I'd also like to add that I also
experienced first hand that only true<BR>talent can -stay- original. When you
are producing and composing music, you<BR>will have to come up with something
you haven't done allready, and it still<BR>has to be good and harmonic and
everything. In the years I have composing<BR>music I experienced it has been
harder and harder to keep getting new ideas<BR>which I, or others, hadn't come
up with yet, and still have that problem.<BR>But I refuse to go to simple and
flat music, or copy someone else, I just<BR>can't see the beauty in that. Lots
of artist most probably would have to<BR>make a living out of it, and that's
probably the reason why they do this,<BR>due to lack of true creativity and maby
no other option. That's the reason<BR>why I did not choose the risk to make a
living out if it either. I guess you<BR>only can if you are a true talent, and
those are rare.<BR><BR>Cheers,<BR>Michiel</FONT><BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>