[NewMusic] Dying Industry...(sic)

[weasel walter]

DEATH TO WEAK MUSICIANS!!! LET ONLY THE STRONG SURVIVE!!!!

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On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 09:30:09 -0700 "George Cremaschi"
<gcremaschi at hotmail.com> writes:
> 
> Jonathan wrote:
> 
> >one thing that struck me was that rock musicians in their 20s or 
> early 30s 
> >were pretty good back in the late 60s. so, was it musical training 
> in 
> >schools? was it practice time?
> 
> Well for all of their excesses, mainstream rock musicians in those
> days still aspired to have high standards - they looked to the
> blues, jazz, soul, etc musicians of the time for inspiration.
> They all talked about Coltrane or Mingus or Buddy Guy in 
> interviews.
> 
> And practice time? How about those stories of bands renting giant
> flats in the Haight or farmhouses in Marin for $50 a month?
> If all you had to do was come up with 10 bucks every month,
> that would sure leave a lot of time for practice, drugs and
> hippie girls named Sunshine.
> 
> Where's the fucking time machine?
> 
> -George
> 
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