Remember what it used to be like when you shouted ‘Friday!’
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Seems like a missed opportunity to reach a broader audience. I get the artistic purity argument but still…
A tough week is over…ahhh. I had an 18 year engineer quit this week. He wanted my job and didn’t get it. It’s always tough. He will be missed.
My Cuba “business trip” trip is this Wednesday. Chicago to Miami, a night in Miami, then Havana on Thursday. Kind of a big deal for this old Cold Warrior. Rum, Cigars, music and dancing with dark skinned women. Hope the music we find is half as good as this.
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It is not an artistic purity argument. Rather, we hate playing pop crap.
As a practical matter, there is no audience cross over. Those who show for pop concerts do not branch out and attend anything else.
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Well…you would know about the audience but it can’t be all crap.
Edit: where would Henry Mancini fit? I think you respect his music. To a novice, like me, there’s elements of Classical involved. I’d be surprised if he wasn’t classicly trained.
Mancini was a talented movie composer. But I have no interest in playing a concert of his movie scores.
All I know is…everything I do gonna be funky, from now on…
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I know this should be in the YouTube thread but this is what I’m spinning now. Such a White Boy version, except the singer, but it is just a killer version of one of those universally great songs.
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“I’m a White Boy” looking for a place to do my thing…
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Passion often makes a broader audience unimportant. I feel quite blessed that, at this stage of life, I’m able to say no to work that doesn’t interest me.
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Wow. Another thing I’m sorry I forgot.
I deleted my reply because yours made it redundant.
Is it a coincidence that the edible kicks in to Moanin’?
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My favorite thing about being an audiophile is listening to old music like it’s not old! Such a great version…again.
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I like the sentiment…
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Even if you don’t like the music, hard for me to understand, this live recording is modern, state of the art, dynamic, and awesome!
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38 years ago today. Released commercially as a soundboard/audience matrix recording.
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