[Dixielandjazz] Cut and Paste Recording

[Bigbuttbnd at aol.com]

Would any of you fail to run your posts through a spell-checker because you 
felt it might compromise the 'art' of your writing to correct any clams you may 
have made by mistake? (Keeping in mind that the spelling or mispelling 
doesn't change your original idea... only the execution of it...)

What if you were going to SELL that writing? Wouldn't you make sure that you 
spelled everything correctly before the book was published. Wouldn't you have 
an EDITOR give you advice about how some sentences or structure might read 
more clearly if you were to re-write or edit them? Would doing so be some sort of 
compromise of your original thoughts on a subject? Would you place a label on 
the book or a disclaimer stating "Warning! Portions of this book have been 
corrected for spelling and grammar from the original manuscript!" No. Because 
writing is an art that 'progresses' through a series of states... and writing 
for profit (or manufacturing almost anything for profit) implies that the 
product should be as good as possible; nipped, tucked, trimmed, POLISHED, tested, 
corrected... RIGHT!

Shouldn't music follow that same flow? The only reason we think differently 
about music than writing is we have only recently acquired the tools to easily 
fix our mistakes when recording music whereas the tools for fixing our 
'recorded' writing have been around for a long time.

~Rocky Ball
Atlanta