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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
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Subject: Re: Ronald Shannon Jackson and the Decoding Society: DECODE YOURSELF
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Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 12:17:00 EDT
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> On the down side, there is "Snake Alley," a textbook example of the
> evil effects of drum computers. The idea of a computer-generated
> drum track, with Jackson and the rest of the Society playing on top,
> sounds good, but the machine, rather than free the music to soar,
> pulls it down into the mud. There is no interplay between the basic
> rhythm and the rest of the players. It is not part of the music; it
> just exists in its own binary space, not caring a whit about whatever
> else may go around it. Done without the machine, the tune would have burned;

(CHUCKLE CHUCKLE) Still at it, eh, Marcel?  Could you possibly have
listened to it and NOT judged it on the fact that it used a "drum computer",
just listening to the music and the sound it offered?  ...
-- 
"iY AHORA, INFORMACION INTERESANTE ACERCA DE... LA LLAMA!"
	Rich Rosen    ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr