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  7. Random Music Thoughts IV

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    Let me clarify my point a little bit:

    You're Pete Townshend and you write "Bargain". The record sells a lot, it's a hit at shows, it's on the radio constantly. It goes down as an all-time classic, still played on the radio 35 (or however many) years later. You've played it live 3,000 times in your life. Whatever personal meaning the song had originally has been mostly stripped away over the years, and you're sick of even playing it.

    Then, today Buick offers you a million bucks to put the song in an ad. What would you do?

    I agree with Shawna and B-F, that writing is personal. And there are some things I'd never consider "selling" - something incredibly emotional about my wife or daughter. Something a little less personal? I can buy my wife that apartment in Paris with just a signature? Why the hell not.

  9. Random Music Thoughts IV

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    I think we discussed this sort of thing about The Who a long time ago. We may put these songs on pedestals, but to the writers/artists they're just some song they wrote 20 years ago. Someone wants to give me $1,000,000 to use it in a commercial? Why wouldn't you take it? It's not a lot different from selling an album, or a concert ticket. Or a concert t-shirt, for the love of god.

  16. An Observation (yes beating a dead horse)

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    I am a giant fan of classical music. Late Romantic, specifically. Mahler is my personal god, with Chopin a fairly close second. Stravinsky is underappreciated. J.S. Bach, too, even though he's arguably the most famous. It's astounding what that man did. Not a Mozart fan, but I appreciate him. Beethoven's late String Quartets? Amazing, and pretty much unheralded. I'm really loving Rachmaninoff right now, as well as the Britten "War Requiem".

    Come on, let's argue about 20th Century composers. :)

  25. An Observation (yes beating a dead horse)

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    Blue:

    "For somebody living in the south during the 70's,the music was a part of our culture and way of life."

    Ditto today and rap.

    "I think many tend to see that culture and it's music as being "redneck" and nothing more."

    Where did anyone here say that?

    "I think that's why I become defensive about it when it is slammed on here,including those who have said artists like Charlie Daniels are really country,not rock,because he plays a fiddle of all things."

    I said that about Charlie, but it was hardly a slam. It was more an observation that he plays a fiddle. :)

    "Maybe I don't understand how people can like a music style that is so much about violence,drugs and racism."

    All genres of music have the same themes.

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