http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Thu, 4 Mar 2004 12:46:56 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/03/01/102824.php#comment-48860 Oh, I don't think real country is dead. I suspect that it's just out of the limelight for the moment. 48860@blogcritics.org Thu, 4 Mar 2004 12:46:56 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/03/01/102824.php#comment-48284 I feel really weird having to disagree with this post. I suck at playing guitar, but I practice every free moment I can. I love classic rock, and I love the sound of a good electric guitar tone more than anything else I can think of. I couldn't find a modal scale if you paid me, but I'm about to go home an practice the pentatonic boxes and I'm smiling just thinking about it. That said, I do disagree. Isn't music about creating beautiful sounds in an expressive way? If that's the case, who cares what tool the person is using to create those good sounds? You know that straggly, scrawny kid you were talking about? Well, he's the exact same kid who nowadays might be using ProTools, or even a gameboy. If he's making music that he likes, and that he really believes in, what's the problem? The fact that he uses a different set of tools shouldn't make him automatically a turd any more than you choosing to use an electric guitar instead of a nylong string makes you one. 48284@blogcritics.org Mon, 1 Mar 2004 18:47:44 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/03/01/102824.php#comment-48183 Thanks Mike, rueful indeed. I think it comes down to economics and expectations: a lot of people want to hear a song exactly the way they hear it on the record or the radio. But nothing will ever replace the excitement and "thereness" of live music, the pendulum will swing back, as it has at the high-end concert level. 48183@blogcritics.org Mon, 1 Mar 2004 13:15:24 EST