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2003-06-04 by JS
Hi Jon,
No disrespect intended, oxymoron is just a fun word to say and I don't
get to use it that often!
No need for concern. I'm a big fan of vocabulary, and I'm so egotistical I can't really be insulted anyway... it's like trying to offend a cat.
No disrespect intended, oxymoron is just a fun word to say and I don't
get to use it that often!
No need for concern. I'm a big fan of vocabulary, and I'm so egotistical I can't really be insulted anyway... it's like trying to offend a cat.
I think the confusion's coming from definition - these
are all , in one way or another, rock
bands (especially Queensryche). 'Mainstream pop' makes me think of the lowest
common denominator crud that's clogging up the charts, although there has, of
course, been plenty of 'prog flavoured pop' over the
decades:
I'm
really not as curmudgeonly as I come off. The confusion is probably
attributable to my sincere dislike for 99% of music or more, and utter
disdain for anything that fails to keep my attention and give me that
"goosebumps" kind of rush that I used to experience with a certain few bands,
the Yes, ELP, the Moodies, old Genesis, and a handful of others featuring that
kind of truly innovative and experimental merging of musicality and
technology. EVERYBODY else in my musical universe are also-rans with no
gray area in between. I either love someone or they suck, and most
suck. The exclusion is the bands that I've learned to tolerate playing the
music of, because it permits me to arrange and use the kind of sonic palette I
prefer. The Evanescence song that started this conversational
thread is actually the FIRST music I've had hit me with that rush in
many, many years. Thus my somewhat derisive comment about
mainstream. I'm really quite thankful that the
"prog-flavored mainstream pop" to which I referred exists, because it's the only
way that I have been able to perform for all these years, up to and including my
current band since I don't speak Country or R & B or other genres very well
at all.
Jon E
Salley
M400
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