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From: edhall@randvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: YAAAAAYYYYYY!!!!!
Message-ID: <1651@randvax.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 31-Jan-84 01:20:35 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 31 01:20:35 1984
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From davidl@tekig:
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>       I have never been able to derive any satisfaction or enjoyment
>       from playing or listening to music played off SHEETS.  It is
>       COMPLETELY lacking in spontaneity and originality!  (Ahhh...
>       the steam begins to rise...)
>

One wonders what this fellow's code is like, if he programs...
I must admit that his musical tastes fit his confrontatory attitude
very well.

Here is a counter-flame:

	I have never been able to derive any satisfaction or enjoyment
	from playing or listening to music that can't be written down.
	It is COMPLETELY lacking in organization and originality!

Anyone can make noise and call it music.  But music is something
that goes on inside your head.  Whether it once had a symbolic
representation is irrelevant (although prior to the development of
recording music had to be written to be published).

I started listening to `new wave' bands back in 1976.  I stopped a
couple of years later when everything started sounding dated (and, I
admit, I had a certain concern over developing a hearing loss--my
ears would ring for a day after I went to hear some of these bands).
Back then it was a music of (political) outrage and rebellion.  Now,
it seems to be nothing but pretense and violence.  It's lost its
`soul', in my opinion, just as surely as if it had gone commercial.

		-Ed Hall
		decvax!randvax!edhall