Comments on: Don’t Read This http://outlandosmusic.com/blog/2008/09/22/dont-read-this/ THE OUTLANDOS MUSIC BLOG Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:14:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ulf http://outlandosmusic.com/blog/2008/09/22/dont-read-this/comment-page-1/#comment-78 Ulf Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:10:42 +0000 http://outlandosmusic.com/blog/?p=80#comment-78 ELP, YES, Genesis. Try imitating THAT. You can't keep good music down. Especially mind-rattling, keyboard-whirling stuff like ELP. Speaking of mind-rattling. It is amazing those bands (and many more) were SO popular. They would never have made it had they started playing now, let alone made hit records. It must have driven the radio stations nuts. 15 minute songs! What!! U ELP, YES, Genesis.

Try imitating THAT.

You can’t keep good music down. Especially mind-rattling, keyboard-whirling stuff like ELP.

Speaking of mind-rattling. It is amazing those bands (and many more) were SO popular. They would never have made it had they started playing now, let alone made hit records. It must have driven the radio stations nuts. 15 minute songs! What!!

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]]> By: Paul http://outlandosmusic.com/blog/2008/09/22/dont-read-this/comment-page-1/#comment-79 Paul Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:22:22 +0000 http://outlandosmusic.com/blog/?p=80#comment-79 Well, it just makes me believe more that music, is following the path of Hollywood, that there are slowly becoming less original ideas out there! Ok, rant over. So I move to bluegrass or alt country, or dig back into my classical roots to try and find some take on a Bach organ fugue that will rattle my cage. Allison Krauss and Robert Plant. Whooda thunk it would work! (live they work, caught them in Raleigh) Ok, rant over. Hope all is well! Thanks for the brain candy! Well, it just makes me believe more that music, is following the path of Hollywood, that there are slowly becoming less original ideas out there!

Ok, rant over.

So I move to bluegrass or alt country, or dig back into my classical roots to try and find some take on a Bach organ fugue that will rattle my cage.

Allison Krauss and Robert Plant. Whooda thunk it would work! (live they work, caught them in Raleigh)

Ok, rant over.

Hope all is well! Thanks for the brain candy!

]]> By: newsong notes » Blog Archive » Don’t Read This http://outlandosmusic.com/blog/2008/09/22/dont-read-this/comment-page-1/#comment-77 newsong notes » Blog Archive » Don’t Read This Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:53:40 +0000 http://outlandosmusic.com/blog/?p=80#comment-77 [...] Perhaps it’s inherently American, this idea that you CAN have it your way, an innate sense of entitlement — even arrogance — that, on the one hand, has its merits (the very foundation of our constitution, for example). A preemptory bumption perpetuated by Democracy. Capitalism. The American Dream. Liberal Arts degrees. Starbucks, among other things. So that on the other hand, it’s this very country-born hubris/desire which induces the most insipid[...] [...] [...] Perhaps it’s inherently American, this idea that you CAN have it your way, an innate sense of entitlement — even arrogance — that, on the one hand, has its merits (the very foundation of our constitution, for example). A preemptory bumption perpetuated by Democracy. Capitalism. The American Dream. Liberal Arts degrees. Starbucks, among other things. So that on the other hand, it’s this very country-born hubris/desire which induces the most insipid[...] [...]

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