[Dixielandjazz] Re: The Stones as Dixielanders

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

Yes Bob:

  History continues to REPEAT ITSELF don't it ? OVER AND OVER AND OVER 
AGAIN.

  IT IS HAPPENING right now to OKOM while we sit around at home 
complaining about it dying and there not being any work.

  NOw for an interesting side now about the quality of music & it's 
current purveyors' , I just saw a report that American Idol had more 
viewers on a regular episode than the Grammy's Had very interesting :)) 
Proving once again how much Respect Music people have.

  Too bad more folks don't read the History Books and not just look at 
the Pictures. :))



 Cheers,

 Tom

 -----Original Message-----
 From: Bob Loomis <miltloomis at yahoo.com>
 To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
 Sent: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 07:56:46 -0800 (PST)
 Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Re: The Stones as Dixielanders

 There's an old Zen saying that holds that
 "comparisons are odious." I think that's
 especially true in music, where one man's gold is
 another's trash ... comparing the Stones to
 Dixielanders is apples and oranges, IMHO ... when
 I worked at the Oakland Tribune years ago there
 was an electrician who'd played drums with a
 couple of famous big bands, who utterly loathed
 the rock bands that were popular then (this was
 in the 1970s) ... "They can't even read music!"
 he said, among other things ... True, but beside
 the point ... lots of early Dixielanders couldn't
 read either ... I think what made rock so popular
 in the first place was that jazz had progressed
 beyond mere dance music to an abstract art form
 that comprised mostly music that ordinary people
 couldn't dance to ... but almost anyone could get
 up and dance to rock tunes ... it was FUN! ... I
 think that's true of Dixieland, too, especially
 when compared with modern jazz ... And when rock
 became a concert music, rather than a dance
 music, when it became the subject of "serious
 criticism," it, like jazz, lost some of what
 made it fun ... Ooops! There I go violating my
 own advice on comparisons! But along these lines,
 there's a revival of old-time stringband music in
 Portland, OR, now that is partly based on the
 fact that it is music to dance to ... and I don't
 mean mosh pit bashing ...

 Bob Loomis
 Concord CA

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