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Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] catching up

From: fdoddy@...
Date: 2007-01-23

....because it is a limited form, as are most other forms.  I think the idea is not to view the word "limited" as a pejorative.  Defining limits are what truly allows one to be expressive.  Freedom is bullshit.

fd
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: tron@...
To: jonesalley@...
Cc: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 3:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] catching up

jonesalley wrote:

> And I certainly don't advocate just reliving ancient prog, but the
> meld of
> rock power, classical majesty and technical virtuosity and musical
> passion
> is still fertile ground with a lot left to say as a genre. Look at how
> much
> mileage a very limited form like the blues still gets.
>
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Why on earth do you think that blues is a 'limited form'? More to the
point, why do you think the blues has lived and prog rock has died a
miserable and well-deserved death?

--
Mike Dickson (tron@blackcat. demon.co. uk) M400 #996
The Official Cynic of Streetly Electronics
Streetly Sample Library http://www.blackcat .demon.co. uk/tron/


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