OT: Rush

[Paul Mitchell]

Like he said!!

Paul


In message <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101092142440.19184-100000 at chiark.greenend.org
.uk>, Jon Jarrett <jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK> writes
>On Fri, 8 Dec 2000 DASLUD at AOL.COM wrote:
>
>> In a message dated 12/8/00 7:56:47 AM, paul-mitchell at KEECO-UK.DEMON.CO.UK
>> writes:
>>
>> << Not me! Technical skill is the ONLY thing in music that has anything
>> even remotely to do with an objective point of view - everything else is
>> opinion and therefore equally valid/invalid.
>> ==
>> did i understand correctly?
>>
>> technical skill equals/defines objectivity?
>>
>> nah, i havent had enough coffee and i gotta go to work.
>
>        I think what was being got at is that technical skill is one of
>the few aspects of musical appreciation where there is actually a fixed
>scale to argue on. Feeling, mood, tone, song structure, whether you *like*
>it or not, all these things are subjective, but a certain amount of skill
>can be assessed objectively. Well know of course that this is not the
>whole story - witness Yngwie Malmsteen - but Paul's point was I think that
>to dismiss technical skill in a musical appraisal is to do away with the
>only fixed yardstick.
>
>        And this is of course very well but it doesn't help us much does
>it? Because Malmsteen's still awful and Steven Wilson isn't :-) Yours,
>
>Jon
>
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Paul Mitchell