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From: ellis@flairvax.UUCP (Michael Ellis)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: net.music -- MORE variety, not less
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Date: Wed, 22-Feb-84 17:47:08 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 22 17:47:08 1984
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Net.music has come a long way in the past year -- back then, I scarcely
remember any articles at all about classical music, or hardcore, or
anything else besides the most popular varieties of rock and
easy-listening. This group has blossomed to become a source far more
worthwhile than Rolling Stone, Stereo Review, BillBoard, and similar
elitist, complacent, formula rags.

Maybe I'm mistaken, but I believe net.music's growing interest in all
manner of unusual music is bringing the more adventurous listeners out of
the woodwork.  I fear a breakup of this group into the proposed
net.classical and net.rock will cause a reversion to the kind of moronic
stifling of ideas that one sees in most conventional music (net.music.rosen 
on the other hand, would be a bizarre place, indeed!)

The most interesting music being made today is by nonconformists who refuse
to be classified  by their listening public or by the recording industry!
Should we, who comprise the VANGUARD OF NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGY, align
ourselves with neanderthal ways of thought?

Appropriately enough, we share much in common with the growing number of
do-it-yourself recording artists out there. By using new technology,
any contributor to this newsgroup has the potential to spread new ideas
far beyond the range of most other ordinary people. What most of us lack
is vision. 

There remains a lot more music out there that has not been mentioned in any
article to date. Has anyone checked out Latvian church music? I cannot
recall one article on Cajun music. Has anyone heard the mainland Chinese
punk band `Dragon'?  I could go on...

The people who are making these noises are not the overpaid fat egomaniacs
whom we sometimes flatter with such words such as `musician' and `artist'. 
It's easier to part with those hard-earned $$$ when you know it's going
to a good cause.

-michael

"I'd rather die for a noble cause
 Than live and die as a slave" 	  - Mark Stewart