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04-22-2018, 02:53 PM | #601 (permalink) |
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You know you can be a great musician without being a great musician, right? It's not what you play, or the technical wizardry, or the complexity that matters. It's how you play them, and the passion, energy, and emotion, and Kurt Cobain had plenty of that. Don't get me wrong, I do like complex bands like King Crimson and The Dillinger Escape Plan, who **** all over those hair bands you love so much in terms of technical proficiency. At the same time, I also love bands like The Ramones and Black Flag, who could barely play four chords.
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04-22-2018, 04:18 PM | #604 (permalink) | |
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04-22-2018, 06:09 PM | #605 (permalink) |
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Pattern of this thread:
1. Nick posts something about hating grunge and loving hair metal. Within these posts, as well as YouTube video links, are usually the phrases "grunge bands can't play", "grunge is ****", "Hair metal rocks", and "Cobain was ****." 2. Someone posts challenging one or all of these contentions, laying out reasonable rebuttals. 3. Nick posts again, repeating what he has said, without responding to the points raised by the previous poster. 4. Another, or the same, poster tries again 5. Repeat step 3 6. Someone points out to Nick that he is not answering any of the points put forward 7. Repeat step 3 8. People begin to laugh at Nick's assertions 9. Repeat step 3 10. People ignore Nick and begin discussing among themselves 11. Repeat step 3
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04-22-2018, 07:32 PM | #606 (permalink) | |
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04-22-2018, 07:40 PM | #607 (permalink) | |
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As one might expect, many listeners found this view unpalatable, despite the fact that the hall itself could be a metaphor for Cage's ideal union of music and nature. There was an uproar. People thought 4'33" was a joke or some kind of avant-garde nose-thumbing. During a post-concert discussion, as Cage biographer David Revill notes, one local artist stood up and suggested, "Good people of Woodstock, let's drive these people out of town." But, in fact, Cage's little silent composition was no joke and it would have an incalculable, if characteristically quiet, influence on a great deal of music that came after. The emerging technology of portable recorders permitted the cataloging and manipulation of environmental sounds by musicians. Composer Steve Reich explored the rhythms of the human voice and of trains. The sound of the ocean was as central to The Who's Quadrophenia as Pete Townshend's thrashing guitar. Brian Eno, who credits Cage with inspiring him to become a composer, recorded a series of so-called "ambient" albums, music of a quietude, designed to compliment rather than compete with the sounds of life. Today hip-hop producers use street noise in their musical fabric and DJs use vinyl LP surface noise to communicate nostalgia and authenticity. In a sense, Cage gave musicians aesthetic permission, spiritual encouragement even, to go beyond the tonalities of standard instrumentation and engage with the infinite possibilities of sound. While he composed prolifically until his death in 1992 at the age of 79, Cage remained more well-known for his ideas than his music, and the enigmatic 4'33" is the ultimate expression of those ideas. "The most important piece is my silent piece," he affirmed. "I always think of it before I write the next piece." One critic called it "the pivotal composition of this century." Pianist David Tudor called it "one of the most intense listening experiences you can have." But all this puts a weightiness on 4'33" that seems at odds with its playful sense of simply being allied to the world. As Cage writes at the end of his Silence, "I've spent many pleasant hours in the woods conducting performances of my silent piece, transcriptions — that is, for an audience of myself."' By inviting us to do the same, Cage transformed the art of music, and the art of listening, irrevocably.
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