[NewMusic] well

[George Cremaschi]

Jonathan wrote:

>didn't tom petty recently say something like: the
>reason people are always saying music was better back then is because it 
>was!

Well he's right, and who'd ever have thought that
his songs would sound as good as they do now,
relatively speaking, in terms of mass pop product?

But as far as "what we'll accept" in terms of low-res
video and mp3s and the rest, I don't know - I mean,
I'm still listening to my wonderful vinyl on my vintage
B&W speakers, and going to the PFA and watching
beautiful prints of old 35mm films, and taking out
fabulous books from the library, and going to art
galleries, and listening to fantastic new, if not popular,
music on the radio(KALX, KUSF, KFJC) and.....it's all out there.
Lots and lots of it. So if most people choose crap
on the content and delivery system front, so what?
They're choosing, right? That's what "freedom" is
all about. If we're going to accept these notions
of "democracy" and "freedom" and the like, then
we have to accept that maybe, just maybe, folks
who are educated are going to have really bad taste.
They're going to love Tom Hanks films. And that maybe,
just maybe, an egalitarian world, where everybody
has access to a good education, health care, and the
rest, will still be a world filled with fast food, strip malls,
SUVs, bad art, Walnut Creeks and narrow minds.
It's a distinct possibility.

-George

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