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[Larry Walton Entertainment - St. Louis]

Ron - Thanks for the letter
Personally I have become so tired of guitar guys and a drummer I just turn 
off  when I hear it.  Actually that's saying a lot because I even listen to 
elevator music.  As has been said before there is a steady decline in Pop 
Music.  The themes have always revolved around love but we passed lust ten 
years ago and are now into behavior about like dogs in heat.

The chordal structure of tunes has gone from complicated and difficult to 
none.  Never mind the three chord ditties of the 50's that everyone lamented 
then.  Today more than one chord would be nice.

Some day chord patterns like blues will be taught in universities much like 
Baroque counterpoint is taught.  Quaint but not relevant.  I can just hear 
them now.  What do we need to learn that crap for because we don't even use 
those things called chords and who needs them anyway.

I was sitting next to a car last summer and the rap thing that was playing 
had only one audible word F***.

I know I sound like some old white guy griping about the young people going 
to hell in a hand basket but it seems to be true at least in the music.

Fortunately we have recorded and printed music.  Some day it is hoped that 
musicians will re discover music and they will have something to base their 
"new" music on.

In a way that has happened to me.  I now mostly play music that is the music 
of a full generation behind me. I just don't enjoy "new pop" music.  The 
great thing is that there are hundreds of tunes out there just waiting to be 
discovered again and are now new at least to me.  The best thing is that 
people pay me to do it.
Larry Walton
St. Louis

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