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Re: First Excursions into Frippertronics
At 3:56 PM -0800 11/23/02, Travis Hartnett wrote:
>One person's "watering down" is another person's "beefing up". Some
>people view Led Zeppelin as "watered down" blues and some people
>hear "turbo-charged".
I view it as kitsch.
>Who started doing something first is really only of academic
>interest ... There's so much good stuff out there, it's more
>important to find out and listen to it without fixating on how the
>file it away in the library.
File it away? Hardly! These artists are still gigging, and I think
it's important that they be recognized both for their ongoing work
and for their earlier contributions. Too often the originators (and
often the strongest practitioners) of a musical genre are forgotten
while a new generation of less original interpreters cashes in.
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