ALL: Originality (was: Metallica)

[Michael Blackman]

..... and Robert Johnson sold his soul to da devil baby..... dont forget
that hehehe

If the gods taught us our musical foundations.... who taught them??  etc





----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Clark <tclark at PETRONET.NET>
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Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 6:07 PM
Subject: Re: ALL: Originality (was: Metallica)


> Einsturtsende Neubauten......
>
> Chainsaws, drills, assorted oddities which somehow combined to make music.
> Would have liked to have seen their stage act....
>
> Contrived, perhaps, but someone had to do it, they did. and it was unique
in
> a sometimes abrasive way.
>
> (Original? maybe forcefully so...)
>
> Still think Col. Bruce Hampton's Aquarium Rescue Unit music, though
> musically perhaps not original for the most part due to fragmented
> influences, at least lyrically it is, and he has turned the most obvious
> into something completely different.  Ok..that can belong to the "twisted
> influences" category, though definitely not lyrically and are cited as
> influences among certain circles.  This dude is straaaaaange in a kewl
way.
>
> Sun Ra from a jazzy perspective was certainly original in his approach....
>
> And OK... Robert Johnson, who was a godfather of most modern rock
> influences, without whom I wonder where music would have gone today
without
> that....most of what we hear today in Rock anyway is derived from his
> influence along with newer amplified technology and creative twists on the
> same themes.  Robert Mayall, Yardbirds, Zepp, etc, and what came
thereafter
> which was a twist of those influences was a direct result of that alone
and
> in conjunction with Celtic influences.   Technology has made it possible
> then to derive new sounds from that, amplify it,and indirectly were
> influenced by a conglomeration of what had already been done.   Ther is no
> getting around that.
>
> Ooooops....rambling again.....one extreme leads to another....what came
> first...the chicken or the egg kind of questions......Amplified Polka
beats
> with strange electronic sounds emanating, I do not think would go over too
> well, however, though if that was all there was to go by, what would the
> state of music be today?
>
> A simplistic and admittedly moronic viewpoint, despite all of that, where
> the hell did Barry Manilow, Helen Reddy  and Phil Collins and
"ho-Ho-Ho-It;s
> Magic", et al...come from, by god.   Freaks of nature.
>
> G'night.
>
> Oooops ....just got home after a few...so forgive these ramblings....
>
> Will read this again in the morning and wish I could have deleted this...