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Am I the best? Is anyone?
- Thread starter markoc
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- Jan 26, 2014
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- I teach lessons and perform live music in and around San Diego CA. Sometimes I even make money doing it!
I used to work for the organizer and still never made it to the actual show, I'll have to check it out one of these years as his parties are always good. Let's just say this… Advertising and sponsorship opportunities might make for a good excuse to have an awards show, in that order. It's all award shows, not just this one. The writing team for Oscar hosts generally go unpaid, the host only gets a basic union scale. "Art" isn't on the radar, a good time and promotional opportunity is. Have fun. just being nominated means people give a crap about what you do, which is cool.
There is something inherently wrong with making music and art a competition. It simply is not! Who is to judge? One man's trash is another man's treasure...or so they say.
It is completely subjective, so yeah it's not really very serious, but is meant to be a nice acknowledgment and is worth enjoying as such.
But yeah "competitive" music, or films, or plays, is nonsense. We don't even know who the best quarterback in the NFL is and that is absolutely competitive- teams win and lose, and there are reams of data and rankings for each player. And still it is impossible to name one quarterback as the "best". So in music and the arts there really is no way to do it.
But yeah "competitive" music, or films, or plays, is nonsense. We don't even know who the best quarterback in the NFL is and that is absolutely competitive- teams win and lose, and there are reams of data and rankings for each player. And still it is impossible to name one quarterback as the "best". So in music and the arts there really is no way to do it.
my previous band was awarded "best 90's band" for 2012 in Cleveland Magazine.
I'm pretty convinced this is largely their way of getting a few bands to play for free at their annual event.
(we did, and it was fun, and we got quite a few good playing gigs out of it).
EDIT: we were not even a 90's themed band. But the 90's songs we did were pretty good apparently.
I'm pretty convinced this is largely their way of getting a few bands to play for free at their annual event.
(we did, and it was fun, and we got quite a few good playing gigs out of it).
EDIT: we were not even a 90's themed band. But the 90's songs we did were pretty good apparently.
I might have come across wrong in my previous post. Such awards, while not a measure of quality of the music or the virtuosity of the players, are indeed a recognition of audience appreciation ... and that's never a bad thing.
Big Hoss
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Best is subjective. Especially when it comes to beauty, and the arts. And most beautiful woman there is a great example of best or not...
And I am going to speak solely from my perspective, hetero male... Your perspective may be different. Which is sort of the point isn't it?
Some guys like blondes, some like redheads, some brunettes. Which is best?
Tall, short, skinny, thick, curvy butt or lean? Which is best?
So basically, there is no real best, or everything is the best when fine grained down far enough.
And I am going to speak solely from my perspective, hetero male... Your perspective may be different. Which is sort of the point isn't it?
Some guys like blondes, some like redheads, some brunettes. Which is best?
Tall, short, skinny, thick, curvy butt or lean? Which is best?
So basically, there is no real best, or everything is the best when fine grained down far enough.
Hi,
And besides, from the Invalid Link Removed website:
This awards show raises money to put instruments into the hands of students. Let's enjoy that too.
Thank you for your indulgence,
BassCliff
And besides, from the Invalid Link Removed website:
This awards show raises money to put instruments into the hands of students. Let's enjoy that too.
Thank you for your indulgence,
BassCliff
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I'm not "the best" anything. So I'm off the hook at least.
At least I got my hot SO.
I am very good within my limits... but certainly not the best. But, my SO is also HOT!
The nominations show you're a true professional. Here's hoping your date....isn't.
When you young you are the greatest. When you older you know its all BS.
The value of art is intrinsically subjective and personal. The concept of "best" is not congruent with it, because "best" assumes the existence of some sort of universally-accepted system of values by which to objectively evaluate, along with each individual value's approximate ranking of importance, one to another.
MM
I'm with you. When I was younger I used to have very strong feelings on the who was who among the hierarchy of talent, but now I believe there's no such thing.
We're all students forever is the first thing I'll say.
At some point, we achieve a certain proficiency/mastery and at that point, bestness as a measurable thing just stops existing for me. There may be better people to call for gigs for one reason or another, but after a certain point any kind measurable value as an artist just goes away and you either enjoy someone's art or you don't.
It's not important if we are judged the best or not ... what is important, at least to me, is whether or not I still have got enough internal groove to keep on playing ... keep fueling the groove up please!
Well the results are in..... I'm not the best. It was actually kinda fun. Got to see some great bands play that I would not normally seek out. Got to hang out with some friends that we usually just see each other at gigs. A little networking and my date was hot. Seemed like most of the people there kinda had the same attitude as me, the actual awards were secondary to the event nobody cared who one.
A couple highlights were a group of very young kids killing some jazz tunes, double bass player could not have been more than 11-12 years old. The creepy creeps rocking in their chicken head masks. The end of the was a tribute to Chuck Berry, last song the bass player smashes his bass, a big chunk flies into the audience knocking his exwife cold.
