> Chris Ireland:
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> The whole issue of "underground" music is problematic to me.
> I agree with Chris that it's nice to share a special interest
> and be able to talk about it with a group of people on lists
> like this. However, shouldn't we all be striving to make the
> music more popular? While there will always be lame records
I think I missed the point. Why should we strive to make the music more
popular? I kinda get turned off by overproduced commercial music mass
produced for the masses (excuse the cliche). I love the music. I love
the variety in it. I think that when music becomes so popular, it merges
diverse thoughts into the thought of big $$$ (read: same song, different
group or: same s*it, different day). The pop audience seems to love
something one day, hate it the next. It took me a long time listening to
many different styles to gravitate to the love of AJ that I have now. I
think that once the pop audience was done with AJ, all we would have is
shreds of broken up groups. Of course something else would come along.
Last point: would you like groovin' to some great AJ in the middle of a
top 40 crowd? *shiver* Wow, does this seem so negative? Have a nice
day! I think all of you on the group are great. Really, I mean that.
Lovin the music in our own environment,
Geoff