The topic that I was debating with another member was the skill required to create the music.
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Woodstock 50 Lineup
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The topic that I was debating with another member was the skill required to create the music.
I have no desire to attend this event. I lack interest in most of the artists on the bill.
Santana, Robert Plant, Dead & Co., Gary Clark Jr. & Hot Tuna I would pay to see. The rest I could do without. 
Whenever I’m involved in this debate with someone I ask if they like Bob Dylann. Is it his guitar playing? Or is it the long barely sung rhyming verses about the troubles in his life and the world around him over an often simple and incredibly repetitive musical back drop?
Anyway, looks like best festival line up I’ve seen lately. We’re not talking Migos or 6ix 9ine here... Jay Z and Chance the Rapper are legit! Miley Cyrus is a little questionable though..
Anyway, looks like best festival line up I’ve seen lately. We’re not talking Migos or 6ix 9ine here... Jay Z and Chance the Rapper are legit! Miley Cyrus is a little questionable though..
Death Grips, Childish Gambino, Low, BadBadNotGood, Neurosis, Baroness, King Woman, YOB...
I'd certainly take the first 3 for headliners - the festival's gonna sell out anyway, might as well go all out on a fantasy line up
Greta van Bullpoop would be barred from the festival, even as consumers.
Sure agree to disagree.
Bad analogy? Probably. But one is a physical skill and one is not. I would absolutely get further creating electronic music than playing bass with the same amount of time invested.
Are Phd's in Chemical Engineering and English different but equal? Of course not. Saying the two are equal but different is relativist garbage in my opinion.
One is physical (performance) and one is mental (composition). One is easier to measure/quantify/validate (can you physically play something or not, this is easy to validate)
Quality of composition is harder to objectively judge.
But I would challenge that it is actually really composition if you are sampling vs creating 100% original material.
Musically, I would say working with samples is arranging not composition.
Woodstock. It was a legendary event that can't be duplicated no matter how hard anyone tries and no matter how much money is spent. It was just a time and place when a one-of-a-kind event evolved out of a planned event.
I see some bands on the list I'd like to see, several I don't know, and a few I would pass up, but I'm sure I'd be more excited if I was 18-24 years old.
I'm glad to see someone or some group is trying to keep the memory of Woodstock alive even if the 50th anniversary show misses the mark by a mile. At least it's a shot at keeping live music around. I hope it's more successful than anyone's wiledest dreams.
I see some bands on the list I'd like to see, several I don't know, and a few I would pass up, but I'm sure I'd be more excited if I was 18-24 years old.
I'm glad to see someone or some group is trying to keep the memory of Woodstock alive even if the 50th anniversary show misses the mark by a mile. At least it's a shot at keeping live music around. I hope it's more successful than anyone's wiledest dreams.
I don’t get the negativity either. Looks pretty strong to me. But I’m an old guy. There are five or more on each day I’d go to see if they played near me.
It looks like they tried to mix old with new and get a good blend of popular music in the United States. I thought that's what the original intend was--to bring people together. Now, I haven't heard most of the bands on that list, but I think if I attended, I'd leave with a list of albums to buy on iTunes.
Cool, a new word! The contraction of ultimate and nightmare.
I have the LP Delusion of the Fury; bought it in the mid '70s.
This pretty much sums it up, really.
Drop the name Woodstock and use something else, already.
You are so close minded you make me sick. Many rap artists use live instruments for recording and performance. Have you missed that?
And I would say it is completely composition to take many parts from various songs and create a new song from them. Because it is.
Just as much as taking the same chords and 4/4 rhythms that the vast majority of pop, rock, and folks songs all use and playing them in a new song.
CosmicRay
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So a physical skill is more valuable than a mental skill? Have you used a drum pad before? There are multiple buttons and you use both hands to play one, it is very physically similar to playing any other instrument where you use multiple fingers from both hands. Do you know that some emcees play their drum pad live while the rappers lay down live vocals? How is this drastically different?
Anyways, I would love to see evidence to support your claim that you would get further creating electronic music than bass with the same amount of time invested. I’m sure you don’t have proof though.
