I might've been posting while you put up the retraction so I must have originally missed it, sorry about that. Anyway, I completely agree with you that the subject of the original thread has gone awry. I wish to say that I wasn't just writing in response to your comment, although it was the only one I cited and that was an error on my part for not being more specific.
I began on the musicianship concept and obviously made a mistake in listing Sting (even though I truly believe he is one hell of a bassist)because that only served to elicit the obligatory negative responses about his penchant for pretentiousness and the large ego. It was to those comments that I was attempting to address. And I am sure that I did not do that well.
Thanks for all the posts. I've enjoyed every opinion so far.
― brian, Sunday, 7 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― mark s, Sunday, 7 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 7 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Chupa-Cabras, Sunday, 7 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Old Fart!!!, Sunday, 7 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Someone played me some Yngwie Malmsteen once. I was appalled.
― Nick Southall, Sunday, 7 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
That second strain of thinking I gradually realised was itself a conservative holdover from an era long past - but deprogramming takes a lot of time and effort. I'm probably never going to want to take quality musicianship as anything other than a 'neutral' quality - can make for good music, can make for bad - because the evidence of my ears is overwhelmingly that low-quality musicianship or 'easy' compositional/creative practises can move me so much.
― Tom, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link