[lbo-talk] Re: Say BYE BYE to VINYL!

[Doug Henwood]

Jon Johanning wrote:
>On Feb 1, 2005, at 12:50 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>>Yes, and back in the old days, when families hung around the piano 
>>making music, everyone had beautiful voices and the accompanist 
>>could fling arpeggios like a pro. I keep forgetting that everything 
>>sucks & is getting worse.
>
>You're missing the point, too, Doug. Most people in those days 
>rarely if ever *heard* pros. Amazing to me how hard it is for people 
>to use their historical imaginations. The past was a very different 
>country in many ways.

Don't know where you got the idea that I thought people heard the 
pros very often. But if they did, why would you ever want to listen 
to Aunt Millie tickle the ivories ever again?


>On Feb 1, 2005, at 5:43 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>>Aside from the fact that they were probably playing songs that 
>>other people had written, does that make it better? And what were 
>>they playing/singing? Not Beethoven string quartets, I'm guessing.
>
>Yes, they did.

Where? In frontier America? I doubt it.

I've heard lots of live music - punk bands, string quartets, urban 
philharmonics, solo pianists, in CBGB's and Carnegie Hall. Someday 
I'd love to go sit on the pitiless benches at Bayreuth too. It's all 
wonderful, but if I had to choose between them and my iPod, it 
wouldn't take more than a single sampling frame for me to decide.

Doug