On Sunday 19 January 2014 15:23:35 Ralf Mardorf did opine: > 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 Lavallأ©e 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 Schأ¶nberg, 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. > The Everley Bros., one of which just passed a week or so back, did some truly phenomenal work before you were a gleam in Daddies eye. I am sure you can find some poorly recorded videos on youtube. They even had a tv show, till they got into a spat, live on tv, and one of them walked off the set, and they never sang together again. And the planet is musically poorer because of it. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> Required reading: <http://culturalslagheap.wordpress.com/2014/01/12/elemental/> A guy has to get fresh once in a while so a girl doesn't lose her confidence. A pen in the hand of this president is far more dangerous than 200 million guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
