From Zenon M. Feszczak Sent Mon, Apr 12th 1999, 20:17
From Zenon M. Feszczak Sent Mon, Apr 12th 1999, 20:17
Hello - > sorry for contributing to my own thread, but i've heard this one before. it > gets used all the time in the rock vs electronica debate. having all those > computers and synths and particularly drum machines, makes it really easy to > make music as opposed to having to learn to play drums or guitar like real > musicians do. ...or to pay for session musicians! > and of course punk rock was all shouting, which is really easy > to do not like singing. and none of them could play their guitars properly > unlike jimmy page and eric clapton who were very good at it indeed. rap is > just talking and people playing records, and so on. There might be something to those criticisms - except that the initial adherents of punk and rap would not necessarily see those as criticisms per se. As I recall, the early punk aesthetic very much promoted the music as a forum in which technique and theory were irrelevant: anyone who had something to say was welcome. (Well, that lasted about one year). The content - often explicitly socio-political - was the key, not music technique. Of course, the story is not so simple. There is certainly musically sophisticated punk and post-punk (Gang of Four, anyone?) and rap (MC Solaar! Sorry). 3