> > Sorry. Not clear. I listen a lot to jazz fusion, like John
> Scofield or John
> > McLaughlin, or then a lot of prog rock stuff like Spock's Beard or
>
> Sorry.
You're sorry I listen to Spock's Beard? ;-)
(Sometimes I am. I'm such a dinosaur...)
>
> > Conspiracy. None of this is represented on the radio today, really. (In
> > reference to your "that whole rock/blues and jazz legacy"
> comment, which I
> > agree with.)
>
> I meant "core" stuff... like old-school jazz, blues, country...
> "real" rock ...even classical.
Yes, I understood that, but understand even better now.
>
> Are you seeing "legacy" as bad? ...Somehow limiting?
No, not at all.
>
> :} Not at all. I haven't believed the label "R&B" since around
> the end of the original Motown sound.
Spot on.
>
> I tend to wonder why folk reference past movements that way.
> {Like Billy Ray Cyrus, or whoever happens to be todays twang pop
> superstar, calling themselves a "country" singer or whatever...}
I don't know, but this sort of issue is out there all over the place. Not
just in music. (Look at the media today with the labels 'left' and 'right')
People here in the U.S. seem interested, or at least comfortable, aligning
themselves with names of things, and far less interested or comfortable at
just looking or listening and deciding how they feel about someone's work.
>
> > I hope this helps explain my point of view a bit, even if it is out of
> > touch.
>
> :} Not really...
Not really explaining my point of view, or not really out of touch? ;-)
> These days I think it might be the ideations of
> the producer that matters. It would seem that some sort of late
> seventies nostalgia has grasped us by the sensibilities in the
> past few years.
Interesting observation. Not sure I agree, but certainly worth some thought.
>
> Maybe it's a pre-revolutionary sphincter convulsion sort of
> thing... maybe it's the result of some secretive neo-conservative
> underground... who knows?
>
Not exactly a Bush-Chaney support I'd guess. ;-)
- Mark
