Originally Posted By: eddie1261
Originally Posted By: rayc
Yours is a very limited view of music I suspect.


Yeah, back in 1976 when they handed me my BA in Music I noticed that it had a notation on it that said "People who know theory well enough to earn a degree will have a very limited view of music."

How ^#@$@%#^ dare you!

A musician with 66 years of experience (Yes, 66. I started before age 5.) suggesting to absolute neophytes that a little bit of theory would help them is "a limited view"??

Repeat the sentence before this one a few times. And don't ever speak to me again. I got your limited view right here.


How dare I?
easily Eddie, easily.
I responded to your words.

Oh, it was a laugh to read "I never saw a post that was a bigger flex in all my years here." given the circumstances and author.

I don't owe you instant respect: you have to earn it a person at a time.

I suggested that the requirements you put forward present a limited view and strongly implied that if that's all you see as music then that is a limited view. Why? Simply because it is so. Your rules apply to one notion of music..a pretty big one and an important one BUT one. Had the world abided by your rules we'd be the poorer.

I know plenty of folk with academic qualifications in a field that have a limited view in that field...it ALMOST goes with the territory & letters. Myopic academic is a long and strong trope.

Read your words mate, comprehend the limiting nature of the things you wrote.

I don't care about you diploma & trencher. I don't care about your precocious start in music. They are both nice things and more easily had by some demographics than others.

More people graduate with a degree from university in China in a year than the population of Australia in 2000.

More people with degrees work outside their field of study than in.

Your statements about lesser mortals tells far more than your excreted expletive..."...absolute neophytes..."? Really?

Had you contained yourself to "YOU make the music, not your gear." I'd have supported you 100%
You didn't though.

You support your strong convictions by patronizing, demeaning asides and a substitute for swearing?

You seem to wear your frustrations & insecurities in public quite a lot...ranting and throwing disparaging comments at "lessers".
I'm not even a cod psychologist but I can see an unopened can of beans on a lighted stove from a few meters off.

Onya mate.

As to hardware & software...if they inspire, overcome a disability, improve the work process then great.

'tra then.

Last edited by rayc; 03/09/22 04:33 PM.
Cheers
rayc
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