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Re: (TV) $1,000,000,000



I had met a guy years ago, he played on a recording by a woman I rewcorded
with, who played fretless guitar. His band was called the Microtones, seems
like a daunting task, fretless guitar.


> Composing and performing music in tunings other than standard
> equal temperament, or using scales other than subsets of the
> the 12 tones.  [22 words--count 'em]
>
> In other words: tuning your axe by ear to pure intervals or
> playing a lot of bent notes.  This is revolutionary stuff if you
> are an academic composer (unless of course you consider that
> all music was played this way before ET was invented).
>
> The group is tuning@yahoogroups.com. It's a real wank-fest:
> perfect illustration of what Zappa was talking about in that
> speech.
>
> Mark
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