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Re: (TV) richard comments-on-new-television-song



Well, did I say that any particular scale or mode is "bad"?
Consider my eyes rolled at this.

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Rex Broome <rexbroome@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 7:28 AM, Emilie <emilie.t.hsu@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Well, Richard has very peculiar ideas (sometimes mystical; actually,
>> maybe all the times, mystical) about modes and scales, etc.
>> Sometimes, I think about the things he taught me, and it makes sense
>> emotionally - not that it is very easy to explain.
>
>
> Well, you can't "technically explain" someone into thinking a song is bad
> with that kind of "evidence".  You know, Neil Young only uses a couple of
> scales in his playing, but really, I'm a musician myself.... so can anyone
> sell me on the idea that the scale he uses on "Cortez the Killer" is "bad"
> and that it's therefore an inferior song to "Bite the Bullet" which uses one
> of the "good" ones?  Other things come into play when evaluating a tune.
>  Lyrics, to cite just one example about which Richard can't be accused of
> overly focusing on, to judge by his own efforts.
>
> Writing about music is famously like dancing about architecture.  Trying to
> argue someone into a different opinion or emotional reaction to an
> individual song using "facts" is worse... it's like unloading both barrels
> of a shotgun into a cloud and waiting for it bleed to death.
>
> I simply hate it that any new shred of Television material now comes
> packaged with the same Bazooka Joe comic strip of a screed from Richard
> rehashing the same tired, irrelevant revisionist history and personal
> attacks.  For one thing it makes it hard to "hear" the new songs to begin
> with.  For another thing it makes me fear that if Television IV ever comes
> to be, more will be written in the press about this pointless feud than the
> new music, and that'll always remain all anyone talks about with regards to
> what ought to be a milestone record, good or bad.
>
> Calling Richard's behavior unprofessional is an insult to the memory of the
> relatively even-keel Sid Vicious.  Characterizing him as bitter is like
> implying that Norma Desmond had a smidge of difficulty adjusting to the
> talkies.  Saying he's being a historical revisionist is like calling George
> Lucas a guy who maybe once thought about reworking a scene or two in one of
> his films.  Calling him unstable... well, you get the idea.
>
> Tom is probably amused.  Billy and Fred have probably gotten to the point of
> just rolling their eyes.  But I'll be honest, if I was Jimmy Rip, who's put
> in years of duty with Tom and put more effort into blending his playing with
> Tom's than Richard has since the '70s and is finally getting a chance to
> show his stuff in what must be a well-deserved dream gig only to see the
> prospect being eclipsed at every turn by the internet bitchery of a guy who
> left the band of his own volition... I think I'd feel fairly justified in
> driving over to Richard's house and premeditatedly punching his untreated
> bipolar lights out.
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