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From: nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: nessus' and miles davis
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Date: Thu, 20-Jun-85 05:30:53 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 20 05:30:53 1985
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>> [Me] Was going to check out Miles Davis, but now that he's doing Empty-V
>> videos complete with computer graphics and is covering songs by
>> Michael Jackson and Cyndi Lauper, I've decided that he's just too
>> trendy for me.

> [Josh Marantz] I guess Miles is trendy, but you make it sound like
> he's a follower.  On the contrary, Miles has been a pioneer, and for
> the last 25-30 years, there hasn't been a more influntial jazz artist.

I wasn't really trying to demean Miles Davis.  I was just poking at jcp.
She claimed that Kate Bush was trendy because she uses a Fairlight, or
something like that (of course, she was using one before nearly anyone
else, so there wasn't a trend yet).  I have a lot of respect for Miles
Davis, even if his music is a little too kool for me.

I am a bit confused as to why he would decide to cover songs by Michael
Jackson and Cyndi Lauper.  Maybe he's trying to prove that he can
transform dreck into greatness.  Or maybe he's just going senile....

I also didn't mean to demean Windom Hill.  I like a lot of their stuff,
even if it is yuppie music.

>>  Listening right now to "Magnetic Flip" by Birdsongs of the Mesozoic.
>>  What a great album!

> I don't have the album yet, but I saw them in concert a while
> back.  An excerpt from my review posted in this newsgroup:

It was your review that convinced me to go see them live!  Thanks!  I
really appreciate the pointer.  Too bad you don't seem to like them as
much I do.  I think they're superb!  Yeah, well maybe their not as good
composers as Stravinsky, but so what?  I mean who is (besides Kate Bush
and Pink Floyd)?

> I will buy the album eventually, but for now, my money is mostly going
> towards my jazz collection.  My Gentle Giant albums will have to
> satisfy my avante-garde urges for now.

I will buy some more jazz albums eventually, but for now my money is
going towards my avant-garde collection.  My Ornette Coleman and Windom
Hill (and Kate Bush if Dave Taylor is right) albums will have to satisfy
my jazz urges for now.

				"I saw a lion & a snake
				 Each killed the other
				 From their bodies bred a horde of scorpions
				 Which overran the world
				 Their venom was
				 Democracy"

				 Doug Alan
				  nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (or ARPA)