Fountain79
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Wed Aug-16-06 11:41 PM
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Is it just me...or does the boomer generation contain the greatest amount |
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of musical talent than their previous or following generations? Hendrix, Joplin, Simon and Garfunkel, Chuck Berry, Crosby, Stills, and Nash, etc...or I am mistaken?
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yvr girl
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Thu Aug-17-06 12:00 AM
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1. to be fair, there's more of them |
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hence the 'boom'
I think every generation gets their share of talent.
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LeftyMom
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Thu Aug-17-06 12:03 AM
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2. No, they just played decent stuff on the radio then so people heard them. |
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Now unless you play radio-friendly commercial pap, you really have to struggle to find your portion of a much smaller audience. It doesn't mean there are any fewer talented musicians in today's crop of young people, only that they're much harder to hear.
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Chan790
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Thu Aug-17-06 12:20 AM
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3. It only seems that way... |
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I doubt any generation will ever equal the musical talent in the black community alone during and immediately after WW II, not all of whom received the respect they deserved.
Ella Fitzgerald Duke Ellington Louis Armstrong Cab Calloway Charlie Parker Dizzy Gillespie Count Basie Charles Mingus Johnny Hodges Billie Holiday T-Bone Walker
are as good or better than the people you've listed (who are quite impressive in their own right) and that's without any thought.
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