Re: Mile's didn't make his trumpet

Matthew Robert Chicoine (scooby@umich.edu)
Fri, 12 Jan 1996 19:20:22 -0500 (EST)

'good evening ladies and gentlemen. my name is dj (fill in the blank).
before i play each track, i would like to stop and announce who it is
followed by a comprehensive biographical outline. this will be followed
by a moment of silence while we contemplate the artists' importance to
what it is i'm doing.' are we not paying homage by playing the jams?
respect is defnitely due, i'm just not sure exactly what it is that a dj
should do. what do cover bands do? shadow said "realize- its all one". we
know this, we are all recycling. Dizzy Gillespie points out that "when we
borrowed from a standard we added and substituted so many chords that
most people didn't know what song we were really playing." see? like it
or not, you, me, him, her, we are all taking in and reproducing,
reinterpreting. outie. peace.
bubblicious

On Fri, 12 Jan 1996 mnorman@ccsmtp.canon.com wrote:

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> Miles Davis probably didn't make the trumpets he used, mine the ores,
> design the instrument, all vital steps without which Miles would have
> been left whistling. Amazing how many people where needed so that
> Miles could blow one note. They're deserving of appreciation, maybe
> not in liner notes, but in our lives. I have sat my guitar on my lap
> and lost myself in meditation of all the people, of EVERYTHING that
> had to happen for the guitar to get in my lap, for the knowledge of
> music to evolve and make it's way into my head, for music to be made,
> recorded, played and make it's way into my soul for inspiration.
> Anytime someone takes part in music, what they become part of is far
> too complex for a mind to understand. You join the flow and do what
> feels good. All those pointing fingers and comparing and naming and
> judging, they usually just get in the way, but music is too powerful
> for them to cause harm.
>
> Mark Norman
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> Subject: Re: Wake Up Folks!
> Author: jspaeth@unm.edu (Joe Spaeth) at cis-ccsmtp
> Date: 1/12/96 12:52 PM
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> I've been reading this thread. The concept of DJ's as musicians/producers
> and turntables as musical instruments is true and, I believe, will become
> increasingly more common not just with regards to hip-hop, Acid Jazz, etc,
> but also in some lines of rock and pop as well. There is no doubt that a
> very creative DJ can change the entire mood of a piece.
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> My biggest problem stems from the fact that a turntable as a musical
> instrument is not at all like a piano or a trumpet. When Freddie Hubbard
> plays a note on his trumpet, the air blowing through the horn is not from
> Miles Davis' lungs. DJ's would have no or very few sounds available to
> them if it were not for a long, rich history of work being handed down to
> them in the form of recorded music. My only point, and this has been said
> before, is that I believe credit needs to be given to the pioneer whose
> work is being re-used.
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> If you believe that my argument demonstrates a lack of understanding of how
> a DJ samples old rare grooves, please don't flame...enlighten!--Joe
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