Re: New song - (also new mic) recording

Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 04:17:06 GMT
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in article 62oma.1148$email-address-deleted, James B. Mitchell
at email-address-deleted wrote on 4/13/03 6:21 PM:
> "Adam Skeggs" <email-address-deleted> wrote in message
> news:3e99061a$0$16260$email-address-deleted...
> out of place.
>>
>> Celtic music seems then to be as impoverished as I have always suspected
>> but then much folk music is pretty limited.
>>
>
> Richness comes in many forms... Is Mendelssohn impoverished because he
> establishes no groove, or Dylan impoverished because he doesn't use synths?
> I think the key is to find what makes each kind of music rich, then go from
> there. In my experience, any time I think an entire genre sounds alike,
> it's because I don't know enough about it to distinguish the differences
> over the similarities... in other words, it's my listening skills that are
> impoverished, not the music.
This brings back memories of walking through the streets in Tangier and
Marrakech. Every radio in every market stall was on all day, and it was
always eye yigh yigh to my ears. One eye yigh yigh would finish, there'd be
some babble in Arabic, and then what to me was an identical eye yigh yigh
would come on, and you'd see some shopkeeper rushing to turn his radio up
because it was his favourite eye yigh yigh.
I had a repeat of the experience working up in Canada's Northwest
Territories. The various First Nations groups would have segments of the
radio day for broadcasting in their various languages. There'd be this
drumming (DOM dom dom dom DOM dom dom dom) and some eye yigh yigh. Then some
chatter in Cree or Dogrib or whatever, and then some more DOM dom dom eye
yigh yigh. Yet I'm sure the people of that cultural group who were listening
had their favourites and their hits and so on. A guy would have to learn
what made one different from the other.
In the same vein, I've been playing Johnny Be Good with my band, and
sometimes I find that I end up playing Roll Over Beethoven without
thinking... and no one in the band seems to care or even notice. It's all
the same... but all good!
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