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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
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Subject: Re: Music and Style:  All Show and No Go??
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Date: Tue, 29-Oct-85 23:41:45 EST
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>>> John's rule of bands #1:  Never trust a band whose bass player uses a
>>> headless bass. [Sellens]

>>I thought you said the important thing was the music itself, not what
>>type of flashy stuff and/or equipment goes with it... [Rick Rosen]

> What I meant to suggest with that was that a headless bass often seems to
> be an indicator that the band is more concerned with appearances than
> certain other things ... [Sellens]

But that cuts both ways.  If you judge the music NEGATIVELY by the fact
that they use certain types of equipment (e.g., drum machines, ahem ahem :-)
without regard to the actual musical content, you are no better than someone
automatically judging positively.  Like David Levadie automatically hating
any piece of music he hears on a radio station (or some such value judgment).
-- 
Popular consensus says that reality is based on popular consensus.
						Rich Rosen   pyuxd!rlr