On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 09:42 -0500, Dave Phillips wrote: > Frankly, who gives a a flying fsck what gear you're using ? I'm > *far* more interested in what you're doing with it than who makes it Funny, there was a thread recently on alesis-ion@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx where similar arguments were made. I basically agree, and my examples that i posted on the Ion group were two, one music-related, one non-music-related: - it is said that Orpheus made the stones fly by simply playing on stone-age technology such as a harp (beautiful metaphor for supreme musical mastery); compare that with the truckloads of music crap produced on latest-greatest gear - i know a guy who rides a 250cc motorcycle - when riding on really twisted roads, he does better than most posers riding 1000+cc supersport bikes; of course, in straight lines he can't do much, but then again in a straight line any monkey can squeeze a throttle However, there's a flipside to the coin, as always. If you make Joan Baez-style music, the technology does not really matter much. If you make Vangelis-style music, the gear starts to matter a bit. Not a whole lot, but a bit. So... Gear matters, but not a whole lot. Get the amount of gear that makes you comfortable and then go for it. Good gear must be such that you forget it's there. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/
