[Dixielandjazz] Required Reading

[Cees van den Heuvel]

Hi Bill,

Start practising and deep freeze the result.
It's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it!

Cees

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Gunter" <jazzboard at hotmail.com>
To: <mcclernan1 at comcast.net>; <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 11:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Required Reading


> Hi all,
>
> John McClernan writes:
>
> " . . . unfortunately the art of listening is dead. Ever since MTV, people 
> in the US listen to music with their eyes."
>
> Thank Gawd I'm around to preserve the art. I don't watch MTV and I 
> classify myself as a person who listens to music with reasonable 
> intelligence.
>
> If the art is, as you say, "DEAD" then I assume you mean a significant 
> proportion of the listening public.  Takes a pretty large proportion of 
> Americans to successfully kill off the art of listening.
>
> But, assuming that is so, I intend to do my part by breeding as many 
> Americans as possible with the objective of indoctrinating them with the 
> discipline of listening and while programming them to go forth and 
> multiply so as to replace the dying horde of MTV listeners with this 
> renaissance of the listening art.
>
> No thanks are necessary. I plan to breed these listeners as a moral 
> obligation to the next generation.
>
> Respectfully submitted,
>
> Bill "Just doing my part" Gunter
> jazzboard at hotmail.com
>
>
>
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