Re: The Machines Rule (was: Re: Damn The Machines!!!!)

From: Elson Trinidad (elson@westworld.com)
Date: Mon Nov 27 2000 - 08:37:01 CET

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    At 09:09 PM 11/26/00 -0700, Steve Catanzaro wrote:
    >Nice to see a good discussion going!
    >
    >re: rock music can't be made by itself. Not true. McCartney and Steve
    >Winwood are 2 that jump to mind; I might be wrong, but I think "Arc of a
    >Diver" was a completely solo effort.

    No duh, I meant live.

    >re: Art Tatum. Yeah, but Art Tatum's come along about once every 50 years,
    >or so it seems. Admittedly, the sampler (or the entire digital studio) is a
    >much more expressive instrument than piano, but I think many electronic trax
    >would benefit from getting more real input from real players, maybe. (Then
    >again, finding real creative players who are in it for more than the money,
    >as Elson says, is pretty difficult.)

    Yes, but what would I benefit from, say a trumpet player who can work a
    sampler? There are very few out there who can even go near those things,
    much less know how to use one, and those who do know how to use one are
    doing their own thing anyway!

    >Take away the programming from the average D&B track,
    >and what have you got?

    The intro to a drum n bass track :)

    Elson

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