Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site mhuxr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mfs From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Attack on Musical Ignorance(defense of Kate Bush) Message-ID: <245@mhuxr.UUCP> Date: Tue, 12-Feb-85 17:48:01 EST Article-I.D.: mhuxr.245 Posted: Tue Feb 12 17:48:01 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Feb-85 04:31:19 EST References:, <19@unc.UUCP> <231@cmu-cs-g.ARPA> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 14 > Someone was suggesting "Kate Bush's work was significantly more robust > when she was experimenting less....She should stick with what she > knows. Leave the experimenting to the professionals." > > This attitude has surfaced in such mindless wonders of civilization > as the "Holy Inquisition", the disbelief of the Wright Bros. > ..... > I regard this > as an actual physical attack on the lives and creative souls > of musicians around the world. > What do you make of the fact that the crushing majority of creative people are not making any significant impact on popular perception of culture, and are earning microscopic sums of $$$?