Re: (TV) Beware of Sales Pitches

[Jesse Hochstadt <Jesse_Hochstadt@brown.edu>]

Murray wrote:

> Last post on this topic I hope for everyones sake !

Well, maybe not the _very_ last one; I just have a few short things to say, 
and then I promise to shut up.

> what  I was trying to say humorously was that just because someone is
> committed to their fans doesnt have anything to do with whether they are any
> good or not, richard thompson may be worthy for doing this, but in my mind
> he is still DULL DULL DULL (shouting repititiously now !)
>
> so if you were going to really pull me up on the use of English, then you
> will see that the 'worthy' bit was what I was contrasting with the 'cool'
> bit

Fair enough.

>  and the 'DULL' bit was my own personal opinion of what I've heard of
> him, which admittedly isnt much but its more than enough for me to write him
> off completely ! (oh no, please dont reply to that last statement !)

Sorry, but I'll reply _briefly_: If the little you've heard doesn't include 
any live electric stuff, then I hope you'll try to hear some.

> >Or to turn the question on its head: do you like the music of _all_
> >musicians who "make music and don't really give a flying  f u c k  whether
> >it sells or not and don't do it for their fans but for themselves" - or
> >does your own irrational, personal taste enter into it as well?
>
> I dont need to answer this surely ?

No, of course not; it was a rhetorical question.

By the way, this debate may have seemed more heated than it actually was on 
my part (and I suspect on Murray's too).

- Jesse
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