Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Music and Style: All Show and No Go?? Message-ID: <1990@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Tue, 29-Oct-85 23:41:45 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxd.1990 Posted: Tue Oct 29 23:41:45 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 1-Nov-85 23:59:19 EST References: <16928@watmath.UUCP> <1948@pyuxd.UUCP> <16999@watmath.UUCP> Organization: Whatever we're calling ourselves this week Lines: 18 >>> 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