On Sun, 2014-01-19 at 13:08 -0700, Bob van der Poel wrote: > On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Ralf Mardorf > <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, 2014-01-19 at 12:17 -0500, Marc Lavallée wrote: > >> I'm 50 > > > > and I'm 47. This is the point. When we were young and turned on the > > radio at night they played Arnold Schönberg, Bill Laswell, ..., Vienna > > Art Orchestra. Today they play Lady Gaga and the Black Eyed Peas, this > > crap has nothing in common with music. The kids don't know music, > > because people of your and my age make the play lists for the radio. > > Huh? > > Maybe they played Schoenberg where you live ... but I never heard of > this kind of stuff until much later in my life when I did some serious > musical studies. Maybe not serious enough ... I think that Schoenberg > and other of that ilk are no better than the rap you mentioned earlier > and are really just examples of folks showing how smart they (thing) > they are. > > But, when I was growing up the radio featured the Everly Bros, Beatles, etc. The WDR, a German radio station, had a program called "Open House", when I was around 14 years old they played all kinds of "less popular" music, not at prime time, but during the night and the early morning. Btw. I was and I'm still a fan of the Beatles :) and I love old school hip hop. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
