rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) (01/16/85)
On splinter groups to net.music... > If I may respond to Rich Rosen's earlier comments about people > being open-minded wrt musik, the desire by some of us for grps > such as net.music.{folk, classical, jazz} does not mean that > we are elitist snobs. In my own case, I subscribe to all of > the music groups, and find something I'm interested in in all > of them... Fine so far. I'd agree that there MIGHT be some validity in sorting things a little, but... >...But, at the same time, most of what interests me in > net.music is what has to do with jazz and electronic music. I > don't like Greatful Dead, Twisted Sister, or much of the dreck > that lives on the top 40/AOR stations. And I don't much like > weeding through hundreds of postings to find something of > interest to me. OK, now he's just written a pretty good counter to the statement that he's not an elitist snob. I can't feature ANYthing in common to Grateful Dead, Twisted Sister, and top-40/AOR--except possibly that he doesn't like any of them (and there's the elitism). And just maybe if he'd peruse a few of the postings he has to weed thru, he might stumble on the fact that Grateful Dead does a fair bit of "electronic" music. (He might even learn to spell "Grateful"...oops, never mind, FORGET I SAID THAT; I don't want to start a bunch of spelling flames and it's no big deal anyway...) -- Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 ...A friend of the devil is a friend of mine.
jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow) (01/20/85)
> I can't feature ANYthing in common to Grateful Dead, > Twisted Sister, and top-40/AOR--except possibly that he doesn't like any of > them (and there's the elitism). Huh? Is this the new dogma - if you don't like some piece of music (or some composer's style) you're an elitist? Well, thanks for telling me. For a while there I thought that being called an elitist was terrible, rather than merely meaningless. On the other hand, I, too, have little sympathy for the those poor little 'n' keys. Listen to that Webern! Eat your brussels sprouts! Jeff Winslow