From: mitchelldickson@bellsouth.net
Thanks Alex!!!
You made my point perfectly :) There are light years of degredation between
say, Bach and Stravinsky. Hank Williams and Eddie Arnold to Shania Twain or
Garth Brooks? ROTFLMAO.
It's hard to sing about a 9 pound hammer if you have never been out from
behind an Xbox screen, much less used one :) It may take me a while to
comment on the comparison of Split Lip to Bill Monroe, you see when my jaw
hit the floor it came out of joint and i am still trying to get it back in
LOL!
Perhaps "Techno" banjo or "Rapgrass" will be in vogue soon we will all be
saved from traditional bluegrass by the new and improved form.
C YA
Mitch
"Alex" wrote in message
news:1156606366.413310.42390@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
> I disagree. With this theory, any genre of music would fade away after
> 'the originals' pass on. Classical music didn't fade away after
> Mozart, Chopin and Beethoven. Rock and Roll didn't die after Bill
> Haley and the Comets or on the Day the Music Died.
>
> If country music had died after Eddy Arnold and Hank Williams had died
> we never would have had Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson and Shania Twain.
> OK, maybe that last example is the exception to prove the point.
>
> All of them changed, but they didn't fade away. People and groups like
> Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky; Garth Brooks, Brooks and Dunn and the Dixie
> Chicks; The Beatles, Led Zepplin, and Pearl Jam built upon their
> predecessors and made their own imprint. Like them or not, consider
> their music progress or regress, it's hard to argue Stravinsky isn't
> classical or Pearl Jam isn't Rock & Roll.
>
> Last night I saw one of the final shows of Split Lip Rayfield, who
> describe themselves as a cross between Bill Monroe and Anthrax. Others
> call them punk bluegrass, but you get the idea. They are definately
> bluegrass - their songs, instruments, and singing style all reflect the
> best of the genre. But instead of staying in the past and singing
> songs of lost coal jobs, dust bowl farms, absent husbands and
> unfaithful wives, they sing and play about issues we can relate to
> today - Wal-Mart jobs, insensitive government, absent husbands and
> unfaithful wives.
>
> There's a saying in sceince that sucessors stand upon the shoulders of
> their predecessors. I think the shoulders of Bill Monroe, Flatt &
> Scruggs, the Stanley Brothers et all are more than wide enough to allow
> the current crop of pickers to build on what they did instead of simply
> repeating it.
>
> Alex
>
>
>
> Mitch Dickson wrote:
> > LOL! I wished I was Kate.
> >
> > You see I know exactly how Earl looked and sounded when he stuck that
old
> > Martin neck in the air and played Jimmy Brown on the Martha White show.
I
> > grew up with the old bluegrassers. But think of what is happening now.
> >
> > First off, Most banjo players for instance are learning from Crowe.
Nothing
> > wrong with that but that amounts to copying an copy! Crowe is a Scruggs
> > copy. He makes no bones about where he learned the banjo. Although a
very
> > good one, still he is less than Earl was at his best. Some young
players
> > now are learning from copies of Crowe. That makes them a copy of a copy
of
> > a copy. And so it goes Kate. A cursery listen to Sirius Bluegrass will
> > soon register to the trained ear that a new form of "festival time" has
been
> > reached. Way too perfect and controlled time fed by super clean
technicians
> > without a shread of emotion in their music, nor have they the ability to
> > transfer it! All sound alike. Generic trash :)
> >
> > It truely is fading Kate.
> >
> > C YA
> > Mitch
> >
>
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