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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: The Future (reliving the past)
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Date: Thu, 19-Dec-85 13:46:07 EST
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In article <998@udenva.UUCP> showard@udenva.UUCP writes:

>>There is no reason why  you can't play good music on a synthesizer.  

> I never said there was.  I merely speculated that because it's so EASY to
> play pop music on a synthesizer that the market is fast becoming saturated
> as people realize, "Hey, anybody could do this!" 

Now I feel old.  Doesn't anybody else remember back when people said that

   "Any <your favorite pejorative here> can take a bunch of guitars and
    some drums, call themselves a band, and make megabucks."

Not to be condescending, but that's the whole REASON behind pop.  An
instrument that a bunch of guys and/or gals can't work out in a garage is
never going to make a real dent in any but the most pretentious of pop
styles.  THis is why we rarely see any of the band instruments used,

People also seem to be forgetting that Farfisas, Hammonds, and other
electronic orgrans have been around for years.  My feeling is that it is the
sound of synthesizers, not their ease of playing, that has made them popular.

Charley Wingate