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From: acsgjjp@sunybcs.UUCP (Jim Poltrone)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Pat Metheny
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Date: Thu, 18-Oct-84 18:03:49 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 18 18:03:49 1984
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> Good starter stuff?  Give Keith Jarrett's Koln Concert or Pat Metheny's
> New Chatauqua a try.

I first heard the title track from "New Chatauqua" this summer on WRXT,
an album rock station which has, unfortunately, changed its format to
contemporary top-40.  (ARGGH!)  It blew me away; it was so beautiful.
I would not have heard it on the other album rock station, WGRQ, which
plays mostly heavy metal (double ARGGH!).  To me, heavy metal is mindless:
bang your head, bang the guitar, bang your fist, etc.  (I'll probably get
a few flames about that; I have my Halon ready just in case :-) .)
I would rather see our kids listen to triple-Z jazz than listen to bands
like--dare I mention them?--Twisted Sister, Motley Crue, Judas Priest, and...
(heck, I'll spare you and stop here). 

To sum up:  listen to New Chatauqua.  It's GOOD STUFF!
-- 
Jim Poltrone  (a/k/a Poltr1, the Last of the Raster Blasters)
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