Xref: utzoo alt.rock-n-roll:2759 rec.music.misc:38893 news.groups:16194 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!cunyvm!maine.bitnet!tar From: TAR@MAINE.BITNET (Thom Rounds) Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll,rec.music.misc,news.groups Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: rec.music.pfloyd Message-ID: Date: 5 Jan 90 19:46:06 GMT References: <9504@hoptoad.uucp> Lines: 46 In article <9504@hoptoad.uucp>, tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney) says: > >First of all, I've been a major Pink Floyd nut for years, to the point >where roommates have begged me not to play any more of it. It's one of >the few rock bands with genuine philosophical and psychological >insight, combined with musical excellence that knows no betters. > >I oppose this newsgroup. I think newsgroups should be for broad >categories of discussion, and of interest to many people. I don't >think they should be fan clubs. Fan clubs hardly even permit >discussion, just panegyrics. One can't discuss the pros and cons of >the subject matter in a fan club; one can be a member of the inside >group who say everything about the idol is groovy, or one of a hated >group of heretics who insist on pointing out that nothing is perfect >and no one is God. > Okay, point taken. Now then, do you suggest we remove rec.music.gdead, and rec.music.gaffa? They are the same kinds of newgroup that I've been campaigning for. And if you read through them, there is plenty of criticism, constructive and otherwise. Why would rec.music.pfloyd be different? >I would, however, support the creation of a "rec.music.psychedelic". I >imagine that Pink Floyd would be one of the most enduring subjects in >such a group, but its charter would be appropriately broad-based. > I would say that Pink Floyd ended it's psychedelisism the minute Syd Barret sent his brain off into the land of permanent acid trips. Floyd is no longer a psychedelic band, and I'd say they stopped that beginning in Meddle, and to a screeching halt in Dark Side of the Moon, so I think it's safe to say Pink Floyd stopped being a band of psychedelics very early in their collective carreers. Not that the idea for the group isn't bad, though, why don't you give it a try? You couldn't *possibly* do any worse than I did! >Fan clubs are the death of honest criticism. Perhaps. They're also a great place to hang out and get info, material, and just about anything pertaining to the subject matter that you want. >-- >Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com > --Thom Rounds >"What's the ugliest part of your body? > Some say your nose, some say your toes, > But I think it's your mind." >-- Frank Zappa ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ <------- Now THAT'S a .sig!