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echo: 60s_70s_progrock
to: STEVEN VAN IMPE
from: MICHAEL DOYLE
date: 1996-09-19 14:03:00
subject: complex/simple/snob/open

SVI>EVERY music style is interesting, it's just that I'm not always 
interested.
SVI>the moment, I like analog synths and heavy guitars (not in combination).
SVI>A few months ago, it was acoustic guitar.
SVI>Next month, it'll probably be something like...flute .
Hey that's good though man, especially when you are young - don't box
yourself into a musical corner with one particular style or instrument.
I made that mistake long ago, and ended up being such a
jazz/fusion/prog-rock snob that I could not actually perform myself any
of the music I considered listenable, it was jsut too friggin' hard.  I
even threw out all my Beatle albums at one time, music I once
loved, dismissing all their music as total crap. Sheez, what a mistake!
So I went way back to blues, REAL blues, 40;s, 50's Muddy Waters,
Howlin' Wolf, etc., started over, threw out the snobbery, and it was a
move to the good. I enjoy so much more music now and I have a working
band once more.  I _USED_ to think that music had to _NECESSARILLY_ be
complex to be any damn good, but have since decided that is very far
from true. Complex music can sound like crap and simple music can work
magic sometimes - it's all in what's felt, meant, and very much im the
ear/mind of the performer and listener. Just ride your musical magical
mystery train to were ever the hell it takes you, and you'll never grow
disgusted with your music.   Keep an open mind.  Don't dismiss new music
off hand just because it doesn't fit into the pidgeon holes that you, at
the moment, classify as "good music."  I've been there, done that, it's
bad karma, dude.  Snobbery sucks.
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