From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2017030422273065585-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > Ask yourself this.  If you were hired to play a character in a stage   
   > production of some Shakespear play, do you think people would be ok with   
   > you rewriting the dialog of your part.   
      
   I'd LOVE to see some Brand New 'Shakespeare'! That is, that kind of style   
   used in writing Brand New Classics in the Shakespearian Tradition right in   
   the 21st Century!   
   That's almost as exciting as Music done in the Tradition...hey, I'm doing   
   that!   
      
   > To be or not to be ..... that's the thing i be wonderin' about today.   
      
   Not to be, to DO! ;)   
      
   > yep. it might come as a surprise, but there are people who aren't into   
   > that.  Me, for one.   
      
   Have you even heard any of Adele's material?   
      
   > We won't. In the end, we won't. We may end up with a new drummer tho.   
      
   Do you think he'd quit over that?   
      
   > I think it was Harry Chapin who said he didn't listen to current music (   
   > or the radio ) because he didn't want to be influenced by it. I'll take   
   > that as a good reason. I'm not hired to play current material.  So, I   
   > don't waste my time listening to it.   
      
   But Harry Chapin was a songwriter - probably worried that he might be   
   influenced into plagiarizing -  but with me, it's the opposite, I can hear a   
   song, like it, decide to write an Original based on it, but make it sound   
   totally different and thoroughly Original.   
   I actually did that regarding an Adele tune, and wrote "However Long It   
   Takes", on the first album, Opening A Channel, and before that, on the same   
   album, being a Peter Frampton fan, and a Grace Slick fan, I wrote "Fly   
   High".   
      
   > Still, that's nothing by current standards.  I have usb mem sticks that   
   > are 128 gig.  Just spend the money. What the heck :-)   
      
   Just so long as it all works right, particularly considering how much   
   material can be stored.   
      
   > what do you think about that  ?   Should performers talk to the audience ?   
      
   It's not quite like that, Dylan, and Knopfler have a habit of talking much   
   of the song rather than singing it ;)   
      
   > It's an actualy language. One a few hundred words, I think ?   They worked   
   > it up over time so the series would have continuity.   
      
   Yeah, so I heard tell...but I'm a Trekkie, that is, a fan of the  Original   
   Star Trek, so to me, that so-called Klingon 'language' is a bunch of   
   nonsense.   
      
   > Actually, we didn't, as I recall.   
      
   I figured as much.   
      
   > Band girl doesn't know it any more than I could recite the Gettysburg   
   > address in Klingon.  Totally foreign to her. So no point. We have a   
   > critical band gig coming up in three weeks. Spending time on songs we'll   
   > actually play seems smarter just now.   
      
   Jim   
      
   Might as well do the material you've planned on doing.   
      
   Our pastor didn't perform with us today, he does that once a month so he can   
   concentrate on longer sermons...which meant that the songs we did, ALL ended   
   up being transposed...the singers would start singing in a more comfortable   
   range and I'd be the one asked to determine which key it was in - I'd just   
   play along with what they were singing and sure enough, that was what we   
   ended up with, plus 3 songs I wasn't familiar with, all gone over something   
   like twice yesterday at rehearsal - at least I Know the Adele material ;)   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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