[Dixielandjazz] Dixielandjazz Digest, Vol 51, Issue 8

[eupher dude]

Steve Barbone wrote:
Why not an OKOM revival along the same path? We've got youth bands, we've
got jazz camps, we've got everything it takes to bring the music into
today's scene, in place . . . except?
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Except it wouldn't sound anything like WE think it should.  Even if it used 
tuba or bass fiddle, it would have to be so amplified and compressed that it 
would have no flavor.  Bass drum?  It would overpower the banjo totally, and 
sound like a sledgehammer hitting a concrete slab.

So, the question comes to, would that be such a bad thing?  Would it really 
add to the preservation of OKOM?

How much did the Swing Dance craze of a few years ago add to the legacies of 
Miller, Dorsey, Noble, Elgar, Morgan, Brown, et al?  What's Brian Setzer 
doing these days?

In the post-Bill Haley era, revivals of musical style have been short-lived, 
mostly due to the changes brought in with the revival.  The folkie thing 
lasted a couple years, harkening to Woody Guthrie, but then Dylan went 
electric.  McGuinn followed shortly thereafter.  The traddie sound from the 
UK came to the States in the form of "Winchester Cathederal" and "Stranger 
On The Shore" and a couple others, but didn't hold on.  The whole line 
dancing country thing of the 90s was simply disco put into cowboy boots, 
which themselves were morphed into a jewel-encrusted monstrosity.  Anyone 
doin' the Achy Breaky nowadays?

Damn, I sound like a mouldy fig!!!

steve "ain't even hit 5-0 yet" hoog

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