stuartk
Responses from stuartk
| When are people going to wake up and realize listening is a skill? "Some of our participants are more or less confident/arrogant/opinionated than others...that is what you call "personality""There is also something called "emotional maturity". Ideally, people with very different personalities can manage civil di... | |
| Is today’s contemporary music lacking? "I think any comment about “the music of today” being somehow inferior or lacking is lazy, complacent and phenomenally ignorant. This from the generation which prided itself on its open mindedness"Yes, and. . . each generation has its strengths a... | |
| Is today’s contemporary music lacking? @bdp24:You know about the "No Depression" magazine site, right? | |
| Is today’s contemporary music lacking? "...if one diligently seeks out lesser known artists, there is a wealth of good musicians/songwriters to be found".So true. And in fact, this was the case in the 60's and 70's as well ! This opinion probably won't be welcomed but I believe my fe... | |
| Is today’s contemporary music lacking? Yeah. I was first drawn to the channel because I play guitar but quickly realized his channel had as much to offer me as a music-lover. I haven't come across anyone who's doing what he does. | |
| Summertime @frogman:Sorry for not having doing a very good job of expressing myself. In retrospect, I suppose what I was trying to express was my uneasiness about Gerswin's motivation for utilizing the Blues/Jazz as source material for composition and then p... | |
| What do "audiophiles" use to judge equipment? @cmariner1:"Are there any others who trust their own ears and go into a music store and BUY something without the psychological hand-holding of a forum or spec sheet?"Are you actually suggesting that walking into a store, sans any prior research a... | |
| Summertime @frogman:The tune is clearly Blues-based in tonality, so having an opera singer perform it, thereby draining it of all its bluesiness, is nothing I personally want to hear. No doubt others will disagree. Simply offered for comparison's sake, here ... | |
| Is today’s contemporary music lacking? "The artist seems to try using a good voice trying to make the song sound good but these songs seem to lack a good “melody."Rick Beato's recently-posted interview with Pat Metheny includes a very interesting discussion of melody. https://www.y... | |
| Is today’s contemporary music lacking? "That music you think classic was the unimaginative racket made by untalented, lazy people etc. your parents struggled with."I recall my parents bringing home a newly-released, early Beatles recordand after lowering the needle, declared that the r... | |
| New In 2021 Japanese import series called: "Brazil's Treasured masterpieces 1950's - 2000's" :https://www.importcds.com/search?q=Brazil%27s+Treasured+Masterpieces+1950s+-+2000s%29&mod=AP | |
| Cullen Cable Ooops-- don't know where my aging brain was at-- it was XLR IC's that I ordered! | |
| Cullen Cable Last month I ordered a power cord from Patrick and waited about two weeks.He responded in a timely manner to all emails as well. | |
| Do you all agree when Prince said the 60s, 70s and 80s were the golden ages of music? I really wish the moderators would simply remove any and all political references, here. | |
| Do you all agree when Prince said the 60s, 70s and 80s were the golden ages of music? "But I really feel that different minds crave repetitive music or familiar vs. more complex or perhaps unfamiliar music"Yes. . . "We are the oddballs of society that place a massive premium on making music the focus, not just a narration for our a... |