From Kelley Hackett Sent Mon, Oct 11th 1999, 19:10
From Kelley Hackett Sent Mon, Oct 11th 1999, 19:10
Ha ha, ZZ top, U must be square dancing........ Doe-C-doe your partner fella! Hk! > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Millar [SMTP:xxxxxxx@xxx.xxx] > Sent: Friday, October 08, 1999 9:29 PM > To: xxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx > Subject: (idm) Re: ZZ, Bowie > > First of all, the constant barrage of complaints concerning lack of > innovation > on the part of this or that artist has gotten tiresome for the Nth time > with > me, and I'm sure a few others. Has anybody on this list invented any new > forms > of music lately? No. So hush already. > > Second, if people can talk for days on end about supposedly relevant > post-rock > bands that wouldn't know a funky beat if it gave them VD, then the rest of > us > can chat about ZZ Top. At least it's danceable, for Pete's sake. > > Third, Bowie may cop style from others, and Earthling may have been poo to > a > lot of ears out there, but he still makes an average of two or three > keepers > an album which is more than a great deal of our favorite artists do. If > copping style from others is such a sin, then you've got a lot of work > ahead > of you- one hundred years of The Blues is lying out there waiting to be > denounced as uninnovative copycat trash. > > Fourth and lastly, to whoever dissed the Rolling Stones- well, you can't > always get what you want. > > Tom > > ____________________________________________________________________ > Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.amexmail.com/?A=1