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"Robert Green" wrote:


You're more charitable than I am. Remixing always equalled creative
bankruptcy to me, but I realize that's just a personal opinion. That
doesn't mean there aren't great songs still being written as there are some
very talented songwriters still cranking away.

It depends on what you call remixing. If it is taking the same song
and redoing it in a different style, then that is far different from
taking the original and just playing with the tracks.
For example, I think there is equal creativity seen in these two
versions of Sympathy for the Devil:
Original Stones:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1jUG...eature=related

Or this version from Blood, Sweat and Tears.:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDH79...eature=related

And I hope you are not suggesting that Janis Joplin taking
Kristofferson's country-based ballad Me and Bobby McGee and turning it
into one of the ballsiest rock songs of all time.


Somehow I doubt that too many of the new songs they listen to will be
remixed by the next generation of musicians. If it's crap now, it'll
still be crap in 20 years.

But it will be kitschy crap 20 years from now, and that might be enough to
breathe new life into it.

I'm not putting down all music of today,
because there are a lot of talented writers/performers out there, and
I like some of the same stuff my kids do. However, when I see them
enjoying Eminem sampling "Big Brother and The Holding Company" or
Silvertide rocking Dylan's "Maggie's Farm", I have to point out to
them whose music they are listening to.

Silvertide? Is that what silverfish ride in on? (-: (I occasionally force
myself to watch shows like Entertainment Tonight and TMZ just to learn the
names and faces of the current generation of "stars." My generation seems
to be showing up mostly on the obituary page and that's too depressing. )-:

--
Bobby G.

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